The Wrong Type of Hard up Family Cause Retails Sales to Increase?

Really2

nearlynew wrote: »

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I don't need surveys or official figures to tell me what to think.

I prefer to use my own eyes and ears.

Anyone who thinks we are in any way close to a "recovery" on the basis of people shopping more is a f*cking moron.

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I don't think anyone thinks we are in recovery, but some think it is not quiet as bleak out there as some want us to believe.

The backdrop is still very much like the last two years at the moment.

shortchanged_2

Really2 wrote: »

I don't think anyone thinks we are in recovery, but some think it is not quiet as bleak out there as some want us to believe.

The backdrop is still very much like the last two years at the moment.

Problem is though Really2 is things are actually getting worse.

How many times have we seen the (wildly optimistic) growth figures downgraded over the past year?

lilac_lady

Perhaps retail sales are down because lots of people have joined MSE!

Really2

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Problem is though Really2 is things are actually getting worse.

How many times have we seen the (wildly optimistic) growth figures downgraded over the past year?

Slightly worse? yes. Baked beans and tin foil hats? no.

I have said in the past I expect us to be bumbling around the bottom for up to 2015.
Can't say anything has changed that view.

shortchanged_2

Really2 wrote: »

Slightly worse? yes. Baked beans and tin foil hats? no.

I have said in the past I expect us to be bumbling around the bottom for up to 2015.
Can't say anything has changed that view.

Oh well, all I can say Really2 is that at least you are increasing your life expectancy with your optimistic views.


Shame it will be in a post financial apocalyptic world.

Really2

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Oh well, all I can say Really2 is that at least you are increasing your life expectancy with your optimistic views.


Shame it will be in a post financial apocalyptic world.

I have listened to my brain and my gut and they have served me well so I will stick with them.

I ain't going to start listening to my @rse.
If you spend the whole time listening to your @ss you would never eat a curry.

datostar

Shopkeepers seem to have put farmers in the shade nowadays when it comes to blaming the weather. They seem to think they have a God given right to ever increasing sales and profits. Competition, value and customer service have something to do with it as well.

Jimmy_31

nearlynew wrote: »

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I don't need surveys or official figures to tell me what to think.

I prefer to use my own eyes and ears.

Anyone who thinks we are in any way close to a "recovery" on the basis of people shopping more is a f*cking moron.

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Thats how i do it, just take a look around and you can see the state the economy is in without looking at graphs and figures.

I said a while back that i used the estate agents window were i want to live as my guide on what is happening to house prices in that area and dont really take much notice of what banks say i should be paying for a house, i was promptly labelled thick as 5hit by certain other members of this forum.

I cant see why though because my method has saved me a fortune so far:)

Graham_Devon

You know you've wound someone up when they post up a dubious spoof thread

At least my article, which was on the BBC, was actually titled up "weather knocks sales". This is just a sentence in an article.

Bless

Really2

KPMG are dubious?


Actually this was the only retail sales on forex factory, so could the BBC on hace been the more dubious GB?

But don't stop believing. The rise was don to those people you talked about yesterday, cast iron.;)