Far from luring shoppers away from the high street, social media is sending them through the door in their millions. New research from American Express estimates that content scrolled on phones is now behind some 1.7 billion visits to UK high streets every year, an average of more than 30Continue Reading

Thousands of shoppers and football fans were forced back to notes and coins on Tuesday night after a power outage at Worldpay, one of the world’s largest payment processors, knocked out card transactions at pubs, supermarkets and restaurants across the country. The disruption could hardly have come at a worseContinue Reading