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🛍️ This is a harsh headline. It’s true lower income shoppers are spending less, but most B&M/Aldi/Poundland shoppers are now ABC1. Their woes are down to range/proposition issues. Lidl/Home Bargains are still outperforming, so it’s not a sector-wide problem

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🎅 …and if anyone wants to get me a Christmas gift card (better late/early than never!), then Greggs has got you covered 👌 #keepingchristmasgoing

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🥤 A 10-pack of vodka alcopops costs just 40p per bottle… which is 20% cheaper than a 10-pack of non-alcoholic pop, also on special offer 🤯 *at Aldi for anyone who with a craving for fake WKD this weekend

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Funny how different we are from our US cousins: in the face of economic and geopolitical uncertainty, British consumers are reining in spending and putting off big ticket purchases… while some Americans are “doom spending”!

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Y'all still don't believe me, huh? Here's my longer form explanation over on LinkedIn:

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

I used to think that a whole pint was 'perfect for your pint glass', but no, you need a 30ml gap at the top apparently. #guinnessshortage #shrinkflation

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@starflyergold.bsky.social Was that you complaining?! 🐟

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Great piece, and it's not dissimilar to AWS's origin story as an accidental cloud giant. www.ft.com/content/08eb...

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Nobody believes me… anyway, here are the updated ONS numbers from Dec 2024 showing earnings vs inflation: Even average public sector earnings (+26% in 5 years) have grown faster than inflation (+25%). Food prices have risen faster, but the basket of all goods has only grown by 24%

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📈 It’s easy to grumble about shop prices going up, but they have actually fallen in real terms: average earnings have risen by around 28% in the last 5 years - that’s faster than groceries (c.25%) and non-food (c.20%)… …the real reason we’re all worse off is energy price rises (50%+) ⚡️

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☔️ WHY DO I ALWAYS LOSE MY UMBRELLA?!

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Before you get too excited about “radicalised young women”, bear in mind in the tiny font footnotes it says this chart is relative to the wider population, not absolute… …so a better question might be: why are Germans getting more right wing except young women?

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♻️ Great that @transportforlondon.bsky.social has “dry” mixed recycling bins in Overground stations… …not so great that they are outside in the rain 🚮 #geniusdesign!

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I'm sorry, what?! This is the best bit of the Tesco app...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

While I appreciate that the ONS probably has bigger priorities (cough Labour Force Survey), forecasting Retail Sales is a mug's game while the reported numbers are so volatile and contrary to other industry indicators... Also of note: December's downward revision 🤷‍♂️

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📈 The problem with ONS's obsession with month-on-month price changes is that this assumes the data is correct... Last month's flight price sampling date assumed passengers flying home on 24 & 31 Dec - of course they were lower. Doesn't mean they've skyrocketed in January 🙄

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Me 🤝 craft beer blackboards in unfamiliar cities* - 2025 edition… 🇩🇰 Copenhagen 📌 Dia'legd Ølbar, Vesterbro *surely better than Eurovision?

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40 minute journey on the Lizzie Line... so far has taken me 2 hours, and I'm not even there yet. Apparently the train is delayed because of no train crew, which is odd because the last 8 trains have been cancelled, so you'd think there would be 8 spare crews with sweet FA to do, but 🤷‍♂️

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Just heard @jackelsom.bsky.social tell @listentotimesradio.bsky.social that Nigel Farage is Gen X… Oi! He’s not one of us! Those Boomers can keep him…

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It’s completely crazy that this development of much needed homes in derelict land next to a tube station was ever blocked in the first place (by the Tory MP at the time, predictably…) HT @ianvisits.co.uk

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1. The danger of “averages” 2. Inflation may be 2% but, as I’ve said before, it’s still consumers’ #2 concern from my January survey…

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Retail labour demand has fallen very quickly, more so than in wholesale. Job postings are ~40% lower than pre-pandemic levels.

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☕️ Literally everything that’s gone wrong with Poundland in one very full shelf in a small town centre store…

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This is hugely misleading advertising, all over Central London at the moment... There are legitimate reasons for using Trainline - but being cheaper is not one of them

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This can be explained by one simple fact: ethnic minorities disproportionately live in London and other cities. Surprise! Now do this analysis weighted by region…

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what on earth is going on with trousers

submitted 14 days ago • 13 comments

❤️ The best thing about Valentine’s? All those Dine In meal deals gonna be half price tomorrow 😋

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

I could have sworn I took more photos at AGB N1 - anyway this is a @queerbrewing.bsky.social beer and @kientan74.bsky.social is somewhere in the background.

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