So, is this a recession, then, or what?

Soothsayers and sleight-of-hand merchants, magicians and Victorian side-show owners. They’re as good a bet in understanding the current economic climate as anyone in the press.
I mean, what sort of misguided fool would proffer their opinion on this recession? Who’d be daft enough to stick their head above the parapet?
Er… me. I can’t help it. So, [...]

Retail therapy: service bags sales

This year’s January sales began in, er… December. In fact several stores, whilst obviously closed on Christmas day, used their 24/7 web marketing capacity to launch online sales on Christmas Day. Why the manic push for retail sales? Well, what with the credit crunch and an obsession with shareholder value, big retailers spent the last [...]