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In an effort to provide customers with savings on groceries, The MarketPlace has launched a programme that gives access to “20 to 30 quality items” at low prices each month. This will be in addition to its normal bi-weekly specials, the company said....

Bermuda’s retail community is working hard to end a sales slump that has seen year-over-year declines in 19 or the last 21 months. News about “positive steps” will be shared soon, said Lorraine Shailer, who heads the retail division of the Bermuda Ch...

Retail sales fell 3.2 per cent by volume in November, making it the nineteenth month out of the past 21 when sales volume in Bermuda have fallen year-over-year. Motor vehicle, apparel and building material stores suffered double-digit declines. Acros...

Shoppers looking for a more relaxed shopping experience can now order groceries online and collect them at two more MarketPlace stores. The company started the online ordering and pick-up service last year and has now added Modern Mart and Somerset ...

Retail sales fell in both September and October to continue their downward trend. Motor vehicle sellers saw the biggest fall with an inflation-adjusted, year-over-year sales dip of 26.9 per cent in September and 21.4 per cent in October. Others to se...

Drinks distributor Burrows Lightbourn has begun to import an alcohol-free version of Heineken, the Dutch lager. Brewed using the same process as its alcoholic counterpart, Heineken 0.0% is full of natural ingredients while still delivering its iconic...

A man turned himself into police yesterday after a video posted on social media appeared to show him stealing goods from a tech shop. The footage apparently showed a man take items from the shelves in Red Laser, on Bakery Lane in Pembroke, and put th...

Bermuda’s declining population, rather than residents’ penchant for shopping online, is behind the decline of the island’s retail sector, says a leading retail boss. Paula Clarke, chief executive officer of Gibbons Company and former chairwoman of th...

A Hamilton entrepreneur has urged Bermuda residents to support the economy by doing their shopping on-island. Betty-Anne Burch, who has degrees in merchandising, fashion design and business, owns clothing boutique X Girl Friend on the east side of Co...

Facing a rental increase in a struggling retail economy, Tess Ltd is to close its Jeans Express store on Queen Street, Hamilton at the end of the month. The shop has two full-time staff members and one part-time employee. David Hamshere is the presid...

Gosling’s has temporarily closed its flagship retail shop in the Victoria Block, on the corner of Front Street and Queen Street. It is expected to reopen in late April after renovations, including work to address occasional floods in the basement tha...

A Hamilton retail institution is to close its doors today for the final time. Grant’s Ladies Boutique, on the upper level of Washington Mall, has fallen victim to a variety of factors including changing customer habits, according to owners Ervin and ...