Most social shopping done by mums
There is an overwhelming majority of women who buy items, products and services direct from Facebook. The social media giants have 850 million members, but only 1.5 million shoppers, and those are almost all women. Eighty per cent of people who buy from Facebook are usually mums that are at home through the day and [...]
Wales benefits from temporary jobs
The Welsh Government has assigned £75 million to help put 12,000 youngsters aged 16-24 into work. The funding will allow those that are out of work or have fallen out of education to get paid work for six months to give them vital experience needed to get them ready for jobs in the future. They [...]
Government targets auction traders
The middle of June 2012 is the deadline for people who trade on auction sites such as eBay to declare that they earn a living from the Internet and will give tax details to arrange payment for the end of the year. HMRC has stated that those that declare their earnings will most likely face no [...]
Beer prices may suffer increase
Barley is the main constituent in Carling, the UK’s favourite lager, and crop production is struggling with the dry weather, Molson Coors the owners of Carling, have reported that this could raise the cost of beer. The drought has caused farming of barley to slow and as distillers and brewers use 1.7 million tonnes of [...]
Energy company mis-sold deals
Door-to-door salespeople have been mis-selling the energy deals for Scottish & Southern Energy to homeowners. The ‘deals’ were struck under false pretences over a period from October 2009 to July 2011, which has actually cost the homeowner much more in fuel bills than they were already paying from a different supplier. As salespeople are under [...]
Users to benefit from cookie law
Last year, the European Union gave UK websites 12 months to change their policies on using cookies. Those pop-up screens that stop you from accessing the content underneath it now need to be offered to the visitor before they pop up. Many websites use these ‘ghost’ pages to collect email addresses and personal data before [...]
Millions of buyers shun insurance
In the last 12 months, 8% of people buying insurance cover have stopped taking unemployment and death insurance on top of their credit. The move is due to people lowering the monthly payments and tightening their belts. Instead of giving themselves more security should they die or lose their job and are unable to repay [...]
Shoppers warned about fake coins
There are a shocking amount of fake £1 coins in circulation at the moment, that has led to the 1000-year old tradition of an independent jury, called the Trial of the Pyx, to begin checking, measuring and weighing coins so they can be taken out of service if they do not meet the standards of [...]
Professional shoppers boost profits
Morrisons has seen an 8.4% rise in profits compared to 2011, up to £947m, giving it a boost as the 4th largest supermarket chain in the UK. The reasoning behind the increase is due to professional shoppers who use social networks to tell others of bargains and for people who are chasing down discounts and [...]
Bakers campaign against tax hike
As the coalition threatens to impose VAT on hot, take-away food bakers around the country are joining forces with Greggs, the popular chain-bakery from Newcastle, which is set to campaign against the tax that would see earnings drop and customer numbers fall. Greggs receives around six million customers each year from its 1,600 outlets and [...]