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10/01/2018

Every damned TV & Radio stn this week.

Sainsburys did marginally better over Christmas, non-food sales down overall across the segment.  Following this we had endless "analysis": questions about online sales, aldi etc, discussion on market share, future growth/profit warnings.  TV news had exactly the same, business editors (someone who reads you the business news) perched up there expounding on same, questions to industry leaders by video link or across the desks, brows furrowed, papers shuffled - is this the end of the high street?  Will XXX go out of business? Is this the end of shopping on foot?  Should all the shops be houses?

Well maybe they should, in a few years time - but you know what?  It was all rubbish.  

A complete and utter waste of air-time.

The Christmas retailing results meant:
"People like to SEE the food they buy for Christmas, rather than risk the delivery substitutes - this then equals a reported growth in food sales for that period, then it reminds you
 'people use online for gifts'."

That is all.  Full stop. No analysis needed.