Retail

River Island's Oxford Street store in Swansea with red sale signs in the windows and Popeyes next door
Oxford Street

SWANSEA: River Island set to close Oxford Street store — with September earmarked

The fashion chain's Oxford Street branch is expected to shut in September with staff consultation under way — the latest…

The deputy mayor holding scissors to a light blue ribbon outside the new Bridgend Post Office, with the postmaster and council leader either side under the red bilingual Post Office sign
Bridgend

BRIDGEND: Town’s Post Office moves into the Rhiw — where to find it, when it’s open and what’s happened to Dunraven Place

The Dunraven Place branch has closed as demolition work begins around Wyndham Street — with a renamed Bridgend Post Office…

A Charlotte Tilbury Beauty counter display at a Boots store, ahead of the brand's launch at Swansea's Quadrant branch.
beauty

SWANSEA: Beauty giant Charlotte Tilbury lands at the Quadrant on Friday — one of only two stores in Wales

Charlotte Tilbury Beauty makes its Boots debut on Friday — and Swansea's Quadrant branch is one of just two Welsh…

Close-up of a large blue TGJones shop fascia above a glass shopfront, photographed from below at an angle.
administration

TGJONES: Rescue plan approved — seven south-west Wales stores now wait on landlord rent deals as up to 150 closures loom

The High Court has approved the restructuring that puts up to 150 TGJones stores at risk — and the fate…

The Søstrene Grene storefront under its gold sign, with a "Grand Opening" banner, a cellist and shoppers gathering by the entrance.
Castle Quays

SWANSEA: Queues from 7:30am as Søstrene Grene opens — the Danish brand’s busiest UK launch yet

Hundreds of shoppers queued along Castle Square for the opening of the Scandinavian lifestyle store on Princess Way, in what…

The exterior of a Which Wich sandwich restaurant
American Fast Food

SWANSEA: American sandwich chain Which Wich lines up first city-centre outlet

The Dallas-based chain, which made customers queue down the street when Popeyes arrived, has lodged plans to turn a city-centre…

Three shopfronts inside the Quadrant Shopping Centre — a TGJones store on the left, the Post Office and Swyddfa'r Post in the middle, and a Toys R Us store on the right, with two shoppers walking past on a polished tiled floor.
Centurion Group

TGJONES: Landlords revolt and bailiffs reclaim a Midlands store — as seven south-west Wales branches still hang in the balance

The crisis at TGJones has deepened, with bailiffs reclaiming a store, major landlords branding the rescue plan “unacceptable” and a…

Adam Gibbons and Jane Rice standing outside the new Cards Direct store in the Quadrant Shopping Centre, with its pink shopfront and opening offer posters
Cards Direct

SWANSEA: New card and gift shop to open in the Quadrant this Saturday — with a buy one get one free launch offer

Cards Direct will open its fourth Welsh store in the Quadrant Shopping Centre on Saturday — as attention builds on…

a tray of white eggs on white table
brown eggs

EGGS: Welsh free-range farmers in the frame as Sainsbury’s ditches brown eggs for white in net-zero drive

The supermarket says white eggs have a lower carbon footprint — but the switch lands on a Welsh egg sector…

Illicit cigarettes discovered by PML
counterfeit cigarettes

New data shows almost HALF of all UK cigarettes smoked pay no tax — with Swansea ranked among highest for illegal vape seizures

Calls to crack down on "front shops" selling illegal cigarettes and vapes as Swansea is revealed as having the fifth…