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Consumer confidence has crashed down to its lowest point since the huge financial crisis, with lockdown costing the country around £2.4 billion a day. Businesses have undoubtedly been prevented from working as normal during this time, as hotels, restaurants, cleaning services, and museum outputs will halve, according to economists. This “shutdown” of the economy is set…
To cope with an overwhelming demand for household essentials, Amazon is banning certain items from being stocked in their warehouses. Essentially, it means sellers that list non-essential items on the site could find it difficult to ship orders to their customers. The decision has obviously been met with mixed reviews, with one seller saying: “my…
The Bank of England has pushed out the new polymer £20 note, and its the most secure banknote ever. It features JW Turner, replacing economist Adam Smith, and the Banks reckons half of all ATMs across the UK will be dispensing the new notes in just two weeks’ time. It’s the third plastic note to…
Amazon says it “regrets” that previously criticised car seats have once again been found on sale on its UK store. Amazon has since said that they have been removed. Back in 2013, trading standards found that the seats would rip and become obsolete if the car was involved in a 30mph crash. Obviously, many people…
A transgender woman has settled her £9000 sex discrimination case against Debenhams. Ava Moore said a seemingly successful interview began to go south after she handed the interviewer her birth certificate. She said “the atmosphere at her interview changed after providing her birth certificate.” After being formally notified that she was unsuccessful, which is standard…
A giant transaction associated with the PlusToken ponzi scheme worried traders this week, with $105 million worth of Etherium being transferred to an unknown wallet. Data from Twitter account Whale Alert, which monitors and identifies large movements of cryptocurrency, showed a single movement of 789,525 ETH ($105.1 million) between a known PlusToken wallet and an…
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