How UK consumer confidence is plummeting
Consumer confidence in the UK has fallen for the third consecutive month amid anxiety over rising energy prices, food shortages and Universal Credit cuts. The Growth from Knowledge (GfK) tracker,...
View ArticleBlack Friday’s carnival of consumerism feels increasingly untethered from...
Over recent years various “awareness” days and months have increasingly appeared in our calendars. For example, November is simultaneously “National Diabetes Month”, “Men’s Health Awareness Month” and...
View ArticleNS archive: Hungry people make poor shoppers
A new genre of women’s self-help books that appeared in the late 1980s revealed “a sad secret at the heart of the Sisterhood”, writes Yvonne Roberts. Publications such as “Men Who Hate Women and the...
View ArticleBlack Friday’s green dilemma
Black Friday has always been an exercise in spin. America’s annual sales bonanza allegedly first earned its name from the traffic congestion as crowds raced to begin their Christmas shopping. Dismayed...
View ArticleThe fall of fast fashion
A decade of cheap debt came to an end in 2022, and with it the fortunes of many fast-moving technology companies: Facebook‘s parent company, Meta, lost 65 per cent of its market value last year, while...
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