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Retail sales in Great Britain fall despite heatwave increasing food and drink demand

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Meww@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨unitedkingdom@feddit.uk⁩

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/21/retail-sales-in-great-britain-fall-despite-heatwave-increasing-food-and-drink-demand

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  • NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I wonder if the cost of buying food more than doubling in the past five years, while wages have been behind inflation for 40 years has anything to do with this

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    • db_null@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      No way, it’s obviously immigrants

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      • Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I hope you forgot your /s.

        In the past I would have said this is obviously sarcasm, but there’s too many open and confident bigots now to be sure these days. Even on anarchist servers like dbzer0

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    • matelt@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Nononono you fool, we just need to increase the amount of adverts everywhere, make them more colourful, loud and invasive! (/s just in case)

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      • NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        More billboards. No citizen must ever see the sky

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    • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Given that these are month-on-month figures, no.

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      • NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Which definitely have no relation to the overarching worldwide impacts of climate change, multiple wars and the multiple cost of living crises that are ongoing. At alllll.

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