Guest consa Posted November 18, 2005 Share Posted November 18, 2005 DESPERATE sales tactics are failing to ignite high street spending as retailers find the traditional pre-Christmas rush is threatening to peter out before it has even begun.Stores in Wales said yesterday that sales were down on last year. The Office for National Statistics said cash spent between August and October rose 0.2% on a year earlier - the weakest annual rate since records began more than 50 years ago. And unseasonably warm weather has been a headache for clothing and footwear retailers, who had filled their stores with coats, hats, scarves and boots. Bhs owner Philip Green joined those lamenting the warm weather when he said, "I don't like making excuses but we've not had any winter until the last 48 hours." http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/02...-name_page.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
planit Posted November 18, 2005 Share Posted November 18, 2005 I am in retail and October was not too bad for us, when the figures came out for October they were broadly in line with what I was expecting. But I am expecting the Nov figures to be worse - we will just have to wait and see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erranta Posted November 18, 2005 Share Posted November 18, 2005 (edited) Latest Adverts on over the past couple of days: B&Q 10% off EVERYTHING for 4 days Boots buy two products get one free Argos 10-20% off loads of items Debenhams 20% sale Woolies 15%? off WHSMIFF 15% off Blah Blah in the busiest time of year! Wot recession Edited November 18, 2005 by erranta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bart of Darkness Posted November 18, 2005 Share Posted November 18, 2005 Bhs owner Philip Green joined those lamenting the warm weather when he said, "I don't like making excuses but we've not had any winter until the last 48 hours. Wouldn't warm weather encourage people to go out and bitterly cold weather encourage them to stay in (I suppose shopping Malls might be a more attractive place to go if the weather is bad as everything is indoors but people do go there at other times of the year). What next, the wrong kind of snow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogbox Posted November 18, 2005 Share Posted November 18, 2005 Latest Adverts on over the past couple of days: B&Q 10% off EVERYTHING for 4 days Boots buy two products get one free Argos 10-20% off loads of items Debenhams 20% sale Woolies 15%? off WHSMIFF 15% off Blah Blah in the busiest time of year! Wot recession REMEMBER MY PREDICTION; A surge will occur in December, and in Jan 2006 we will here the high st. boomed in December. I promise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levy process Posted November 18, 2005 Share Posted November 18, 2005 REMEMBER MY PREDICTION; A surge will occur in December, and in Jan 2006 we will here the high st. boomed in December. I promise. You "promise" do you? What, you mean you will be arranging it personally? Ha ha ha! Of course there will be an increase right before Christmas. People will eventually get out there and indulge in the usual mindless spending spree. But, it might not be as big as in the past. I think there is a big chance of that. Remember too, that sometimes headlines report the level of sales, and not the money taken; a lot of recent imrovement in retail is actually being reported as volumes going up in response to slashed prices. Finally, the medai may well get their favourite words out to describe whatever does happen (e.g. "boom, fueled, soared" etc.) That doesn't mean it actually really happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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