Sarah Butler
@whatbutlersaw
Guardian/Observer journo writing on retail, restaurants and ethical business. Cyclist with a love of Marmite. Got a story? Contact: [email protected]
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20-01-2012 12:14:58
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🛍️ Before you read too much into today's *headline* increase in #retailsales :
- it was helped by earlier Black Friday sales after a lacklustre Autumn
- Black Friday is no longer the draw it once was, falling every year since it peaked in 2019:
Perhaps GMB, if it has members’ real interests in mind, should familiarise itself with work of Michael Liebreich and Jan Rosenow before hitching itself irredeemably to a losing technology?