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Burger King is seemingly using their social media presence for good, as they have stopped using Instagram for themselves. With more and more businesses being affected by the coronavirus restrictions, Burger King has stopped using Instagram for its own services, and started offering advertisement for smaller food businesses. For goodness knows how long, whilst businesses…
Environment Secretary George Eustice has revealed that pub-goers will be allowed to finish their pints once lockdown is lifted. There has been a bit of confusion regarding tier 2 pub rules, where the government said there will be “no lingering”, and visitors must leave “once their meal is finished”. The rules also say you can only…
Reports suggest that price comparison site Compare the Market have been fined £17.9m for keeping house insurance prices “artificially high”. Compare the Market were engaged in Contracts with insurance firms allowed them to keep prices artificially high, as it stopped these firms from offering cheaper prices on other sites due to clauses in their contract….
Book and food retailer WHSmith has reportedly turned over a loss due to the coronavirus pandemic. This is likely due to travel restrictions being imposed in the UK, as WHSmith is primarily a brick and mortar store, as oppose to an online one. They reported a pre-tax loss of £226m, down from a £135m profit…
An East London takeaway has been fined after it served a burger after 10pm. BIM’S in Ilford Lane, Ilford, was given a fixed penalty notice amounting to £1000 after a customer was served after 10pm. This apparently wasn’t the first time the shop was penalised for breaching certain rules either. The takeaway, after receiving the…
ASDA has been bought from Walmart for around £6.8 billion by a pair of billionaire brothers from the UK. The pair acquired the supermarket chain for £100 million more than the American firm originally bought it for back in 1999 (not adjusted for inflation), marking the first british owners for the first time in 20…
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