Archive for February 20th, 2009

Nuit-Saint-Georges Jean Chauvenet 2004

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Jean Chauvenet and some trainers...for some reason

It seems that people haven’t stopped spending after all.  January 2009 retail sales in the UK were actually 0.7% higher than last month and a whopping 3.6% higher than Jan 08.  Analysts (who are these anonymous experts?  It’s like reading about comments from “community leaders” after a local riot) suggest that deep discounting in the January sales was the cause.  Whatever.  It shows that if you can get your value proposition right, people will still buy.

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