Retail Sales Up In November.

[nicebloke1]

The good news just keeps coming. Retail sales up by 0.2% in November, and thats without counting Black Friday sales, so even more good news yet to come.

[nicebloke1]

I did say a while back the shops are packed, and have been for some time. :0)

[rowanwitch]

It may be November offers  and sales drew people in earlier, be interested to see if this impacts December and January,  

[gramps85]

It's Christmas, what else did you expect?

[rowanwitch]

Shops seemed quieter than usual last week, Birmingham  is normally heaving but even Primark and tkmaxx had very short queues

[naomi24]

nicebloke's town is the only one in the country that's experienced these crowds of happy, wealthy shoppers.  He's been telling us about it for weeks.

[chelle7272]

But 3% down on what was expected

https://news.sky.com/story/surprisingly-low-retail-sales-in-key-christmas-shopping-month-ons-13276908

[webbo3]

\\November has been described as a "shaky" start to the festive season, an industry body said, as clothing sales fell to a pandemic-era low.//

Not that good nicebloke

[nicebloke1]

Sales UP not DOWN, great news.

[webbo3]

did you actually read my comment

[New Judge]

"I did say a while back the shops are packed, and have been for some time. :0)"

Indeed you did. On 26th November, in fact. You explained  that you had to get out to the shops quickly as they are absolutely jam packed:

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1883325.html

I explained that in the previous month (October) sales had actually fallen by 0.7%. You suggested that "people always hold back on spending around October" (despite it being, according to retail analysts, the first month of retail's "golden quarter" around Christmas).

Now November's figures are disappointing. Whilst "Black Friday" itself was not included in the period covered by the latest ONS figures, the rest of the run up to that day was and since BF seems to last about three weeks, I think its influence must have been apparent in those figures.

Every analysis and every sensible comment on the state of the economy suggests that the October budget has destroyed what little prospect of economic growth there might previously have been. When Mr Miliband's latest plans for the lunacy that is "net zero" feed through the system and emerge in the form of more surcharges on energy bills (this time to pay for hydrogen production, storage and distribution) those prospects will be further diminished..

I don't know what the people in your town are doing in the shops. It's my guess that they just meet up in them to keep warm.

[nicebloke1]

The happyness for the retail trade is infectious. <:0)