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Blue Monday: The problem with retail therapy

London - The most dark and depressing day of the year is upon us: Blue Monday. But is what makes this Monday, the most depressing of them all? Well, nothing apparently, as the entire idea was originally invented by a PR team to sell more holidays for Sky Travel over a decade ago. Since then the concept has been debunked numerous times in...

Retail

Refund surge turns Black Friday into Blue Monday for UK retailers

Retailers across the UK may be experiencing a Black Friday hangover this week as they could see the number of returns raise as much as 49 percent following the borrowed US promotional offer, predicts payments processor Worldpay. Based on Worldpay's analysis of the previous years of Black Friday mayhem, the total number of refunds processed by UK...