Does background music encourage customers to buy more goods? Perhaps, but it depends on what day it is. In a study based on three supermarkets in Sweden, researchers showed that background music did ...

A shopping centre has defended its decision to install "buddy benches" to help combat loneliness. The brightly coloured rainbow seats were installed outside the Longton Exchange Shopping Centre in ...

With the economic landscape continuing to shift, we asked shoppers at Cwmbran Shopping Centre how they felt the area has been coping since 2020.

The 1970s and 80s were boom decades for US-style shopping centres in the UK, bringing together a host of goods and services under one roof. But in today's retail landscape, are they surplus to ...

It has been 25 years since the opening of one of the south of England's biggest shopping centres. When it opened in 2000, Westquay Shopping Centre in Southampton was described as the largest city ...

A shopping centre now has the third name of its 52-year life after it changed hands last year. The site in Luton opened as the Arndale Centre in 1972 and was renamed The Mall Luton in 2006, but it has ...