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American Apparel's UK business has today entered administration, with customers now unable to use gift cards or get refunds for returned items, and pending online orders no longer being dispatched.

Online sellers have been reminded they face "serious consequences" for fixing prices with their competitors ahead of one of the busiest shopping days of the year.

Cashback app Shopitize has suspended a number of its users' accounts as part of a crackdown on potential "fraudulent activity" – leaving many insisting they've been wrongly targeted and one user claiming he's lost access to £600 of cashback intended to fund his family Christmas.

The majority of businesses in the UK don't fully understand rules around 'unfair terms' in relation to consumer rights law, according to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).

The rising cost of clothing, hotel stays and petrol has fuelled the highest rate of UK inflation in almost two years – but there remain ways you can cut your costs.

Shoppers are reporting a shortage of dozens of popular household brands at Tesco. But if you're frantically searching for your fix of Marmite, Hellmann's or PG Tips, it's actually possible to slash costs by buying the same brand elsewhere or downshifting to an own-brand equivalent.

Members of Waitrose's loyalty cards programme are no longer able to get a totally free tea or coffee from all of its stores, after the supermarket began trialling a new scheme which requires shoppers in some areas to buy something before qualifying for a free drink.

Facebook is launching its own free-to-use classified-ads platform for buying and selling goods locally, although it won't interfere with independent buying and selling groups already set up on the site.

More than 1,000 Very customers who paid for reduced-price PlayStation 4s have been left disappointed after the online retailer failed to deliver the consoles and has now cancelled orders due to lack of stock.