More high street gloom... recession anyone ?

[milanbenes]

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/ar...783344,00.html


"HIGH street tills failed to ring up any rise in sales last month as battered retailers were hit by a slump in trading at food stores. ",


when people stop buying food things must be really bad !!

Milan.

[ladymuck]

Probably really means that tesco sold less TV's and cutlery than food.

[n5gooner]

or just everyone was on holiday............

[Lucifer Box]

What a crock of tulip that article is. Retail sales never go up in August - as n5gooner says, a significant portion of the population are out of the country for starters.