RE: Bleak winter for retailers as pre-Christmas sales fall16 Dec 2022 17:45
Like this bit hopegreednothing pointed it out this morning
Olivia Cross, assistant economist at the Capital Economics consultancy, said: “The ONS estimates that longer Black Friday sales helped drive a 1.7 per cent month-on-month rise in department shop sales volumes and a 4.4 per cent month-on-month rise in household goods sales volumes