Yuki Tanaka 
Oxfam’s retail profit fell 23% to £4.9m, according to accounts seen by the Financial Times, while the British Heart Foundation closes 150 shops. Secondhand spending has quadrupled, but apps such as Vinted, rising costs and poorer donations are squeezing charity tills.
Online sales rose 10.1% in October as colder weather sent shoppers looking for winter clothes, BDO’s High Street Sales Tracker shows. In-store sales grew just 2.2%, below inflation, despite the best overall month since January 2025.
Very will refund the difference if an eligible Black Friday deal is cut again before 4 December 2026. Here is how the promise works, how it compares with Currys and what shoppers must do to claim.
Carrefour’s French profit warning looks like a reason to sell Poland faster. The signals point the other way: no whole or majority sale of Carrefour Polska is likely signed before 30 June 2027.
Signals point to Adobe’s January 2027 holiday recap showing AI referral traffic up about 90–115%, short of its 130% forecast. The traffic that does arrive likely keeps converting at least 35% better than non-AI channels.
California enacted its first state monopolization law on September 30, 2026, and the COMPETE Act takes effect January 1, 2027. It reaches single-firm conduct including monopsony, and only the Attorney General and district attorneys can enforce it.
The FTC has settled its first Robinson-Patman Act case in a generation, imposing six years of monitored pricing limits on Southern Glazer’s across 26 states. Chairman Ferguson disclosed that discovery put total annual harm at roughly $15.7m, far below the 2024 complaint’s framing.
Nu Holdings launched US banking on September 10, 2026 paying 3.50% APY on USDC balances inside Nu Global, roughly 130 days before the GENIUS Act takes effect. Three September signals suggest Nu likely cuts, recasts or relocates that yield before March 31, 2027.
Two Minnesota shoppers sued Target on 25 September over the $994 million IEEPA tariff refund it booked in August, asking a federal judge to order the money returned to customers. It is the second consumer class action against the retailer on that theory, and part of a wave of more than 80 such suits.
From 1 October 2026 Australian merchants can no longer surcharge eftpos, Mastercard or Visa payments, and domestic interchange caps fall the same day. About A$1.8 billion of annual surcharges moves into shelf prices, absorbed margin and repriced credit card rewards.