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Shareholder meeting turned into latest episode in battle between fashion retailer and Mike Ashley’s retail empire

Discover why major retail brands including Microsoft and Zara are closing stores on Oxford Street as the shopping district enters a new era

I’m not being funny but… do you remember when Oxford Street was one of the greatest in the world? That wasn’t even too long ago. Walking down it these days, you’re either blinded by the atrocious candy shops on every corner or being too cautious about getting run over by…

Cost of living crisis partly responsible but total sales at Mike Ashley’s company rise

Mexican and Malaysian, Uzbek and Italian: Ben McCormack has the flavours of the month

The Standard interviews Westfield UK COO Scott Parsons about his vision for the future of London's biggest shopping malls

After bankruptcy of Birmingham, Surrey town’s Lib Dem leader says ‘We can see the iceberg coming’

John Lewis is a doughty symbol of London retail, but that does not guarantee it a bricks-and-mortar future. Gamages on Holborn traded in everything from toys to supplying the army with catapults during the First World War, but was an anachronism in swinging London by the Seventies, while Dickins &…

“If the novelists P.G. Wodehouse, Jackie Collins and Naguib Mahfouz had been asked to pool their creative talents, they would have struggled to invent a character as bold and controversial as Mohamed Al Fayed,” said Andrew Anthony in The Observer.