Five leading retail and lifestyle brands are joining the city’s biggest city-centre shopping complex.
Sustainable and Useful Gift Giving at Christmas: Down with Toiletry Gift sets
Still not quite finished your Christmas shopping yet? Amelia Averis has your back on how to shop sustainably this Christmas.
Inside Trender: a new sustainable shopping platform created by students
Online shopping experienced a boom during the COVID pandemic. Lonely nights in lockdown triggered two students, Sakina Amin and Ishan Singh, to search for new ways to improve the online retail experience.
Critics attack PrettyLittleThing for 8p sale
Fashion fanatics surely made the most of it, with one purchasing £600 worth of clothes for just £6.
Your Guide to Shopping At Independent, Black-Owned Businesses Around Leeds
Moving to a new city can be daunting and shopping at businesses you know well can make the move a little easier. Small businesses are forgotten along this journey in the interest of safety and familiarity. Our mission is to introduce you to the riches of independent, black-owned businesses across Leeds.
The Gryphon’s Guide to Being a Shop-Savvy Student
If you’re paying full price then you’re doing something wrong. These days you would be hard pressed to find a company which doesn’t price discriminate. If businesses can split a market up into groups that […]
Selfridges – Ethical Capitalism in Action?
Luxury department store Selfridges has announced that they will put an end to the sale of exotic animal skins, following their ban on the sale of fur in 2005. What does this actually say to […]
Town Centres Are Dying: It Will Take More Than Simple Window-Dressing To Resurrect Them
Britain is filled with barren streets, boarded-up windows and decaying shop fronts; it’s a sight that wouldn’t look out of place in a Walking Dead episode. As our town centres – once the civic heartbeats […]
Sustainable Shopping – Going Away or Here to Stay?
Tucked away in the Central Arcade at the bottom of town you’ll find EcoTopia, Leeds’ newest environmentally conscious shop. Set up just 3 months ago, EcoTopia is a weigh-and-pay style convenience store built around one […]
Impulse Buying: Have you Fallen Victim to our Culture of Consumption?
Has your bank account crawled out of the Black Friday sales as a shadow of its former self? If so, don’t worry – you’re not alone! A recent survey found that on average British people […]
Christmas Stocking Fillers
Christmas is calling and while you’re mulling some wine you’re probably mulling over what’s worth including on your Christmas wish list. To give a helping hand, I’ve included an editor’s pick of what I’m hoping […]
Your Christmas Outfits, Sorted…
From that final Fruity to Christmas dinner with the Grandparents, Lydia Flack has got you covered. Christmas Ball Perhaps one of the only times us students ever really get to dress up. Your course […]