Wrong type of weather knocks high street

Graham_Devon

Really2 wrote: »

It was at the end, If you usually buy your winter clothes at the end of sept when it is usually about 13C would you still buy them when it is 30C

There is a big shift in temp from the start of sept to the end usualy.

So it is a bit false for anyone to make out the end was unseasonally hot.

The start of Oct saw record amounts coming out of cash machines, so it looks likely that weather had an influence on spending patterns.

2 days!! Two! A WHOLE two days.

One being a sunday!

Therefore, September was NOT unseasonably hot. No ones made out the end was not hotter than usual as you are now suggesting.

Come ON! Are you really going to back up this article? It's up there with the absolute best of excuses. Every single month has at least a couple of days where it isn't absolutely perfect for the expectations of the month!

Wow. Cannot believe even you would back this article up. Based on that, I suppose we can write off October too. Look forward to the next instalment.

Really2

So lets comapare YoY weather?

2011 sept


2010 sept


Draw your on conclusion, but there is a fair difference for the figures involved.

Graham_Devon

Supermarkets foresaw higher sales of barbecue food, with Tesco predicting it would sell an extra 3.5m sausages over the next three days. It also expects to sell 550,000 burgers, 10 million bottles and cans of beer, 3m bottles of wine and 500,000 tubs of ice-cream.

Full article here, which talks about the weather we experienced.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/02/indian-summer-brings-out-crowds

So people were spending, just on the "wrong stuff".

abaxas

Really2 wrote: »

So lets comapare YoY weather?

2011 sept


2010 sept


Draw your on conclusion, but there is a fair difference for the figures involved.

And the scale.....

Graham_Devon

Really2 wrote: »

So lets comapare YoY weather?

Draw your on conclusion, but there is a fair difference for the figures involved.

2 years. Wow.

I won't draw my conclusions on that, as heres another "freak" year, from the bygone eras of....oh...2009.



In other words, 20-22 is about normal for max temp.

And look at 2005....it's a wonder we have a high street left and they didn't all go bust.



Cannot believe were arguing this. It's completely obvious this article is full of desperation, so I'll leav eyou to believe it.

Mrs_Bones

Rubbish about the warm weather having a bad effect on retail.

After working in retail for over 30 years I know that hot sunny weather is good. Coming late as it did this year, then clothing retailers who had only got their winter season stuff out now might not have noticed many sales but for others it would have been a good few days, specially food sales where people took the chance for one last barbecue.

The fact is at this moment in time all retailers are suffering because of the general economy and money worries, fear of unemployment etc. There is a general gloom on the high street that this holiday / festive season will not bring the good sales in enough quantity to make up for the bad this year and January could see many in trouble. The weather is not effecting the money supply or making people spend less.

There are still people on the high street and in the shopping centers, they just are not spending as much. The couple of days of sun and hot weather would have given some retailers a nice boost. In reality only two things virtually empty the shops, cold horrible weather and England playing in world cup matches.

nearlynew

Strange as it may seem, but I've still got the winter clothes I had last year and don't need to buy any more.

Graham_Devon

nearlynew wrote: »

Strange as it may seem, but I've still got the winter clothes I had last year and don't need to buy any more.

I threw all mine out in June, thinking I wouldn't need them again.

I felt towards the 3rd week of September I'd made a mistake. Nearly went shopping for a coat to put on, but then it was sunny and warm for a day, so I thought I'd be fine for the rest of the winter and wouldn't need a coat....like everyone else, it seems.

<rolls eyes>

Really2

abaxas wrote: »

And the scale.....

Centigrade and September?


It clearly shows the last two weeks of the month were way hotter than that last year.

Really2

Graham_Devon wrote: »

2 years. Wow.

I won't draw my conclusions on that, as heres another "freak" year, from the bygone eras of....oh...2009.

Jesus devon, to point out the reason I posted those two years was becausue they were the months that data are compared against.

Sales were down 4% compared to SEPTEMBER 2010!!!

So quiet possibly the silliest thing you have ever said.