That was the week that was

Never a dull moment in my job, there are times when I am left wishing for a slightly quieter life. Last week was a bit of a ‘mare if I’m going to be completely honest with a number of factors conspiring to make life difficult. Sales remain a challenge with no real pattern, this half term will be important not just from a sales perspective but as an indicator of how Christmas might turn out.
I notice do that the GDP number yesterday whilst still healthy indicates a slow down in growth, this chimes with what I am seeing out and about in shopping centres and in high streets up and down the country with footfall numbers well down in some areas,not sure if people are saving their money for a big Christmas shopping spree of weather they are just saving their money…….
I’m an avid watcher of Question time no the BBC but found it hard going this week, the combination of Len Mccluskey and Alex Salmond was depressing. Len still appears to be in a world of his own, bemoaning “austerity” whilst being unable to offer any examples of what he would do differently. I’m not anti union, far from it I just hate the rhetoric and bluster and the politics of envy employed by some union leaders.