Retail sales up

[yord]

and I believe you omni already owe your balls to rinclink

[VikingHumpingWitch]

If things get really bad for me, I'll offer you a discount on my copywriting services. I'd do it now out of kindness (to the English language) but I'm actually busy as.

[omnipleasant]

Funnily enough, and I think somone mentioned the same thing earlier, I've noticed a marked increase in job type stuff in the last few weeks.

[VikingHumpingWitch]

No kidding. I'm on my breakfast break at the moment and I've been working since 7am your time.

[yord]

No retailer wants dead stock on their hands, the reasons your see the prices fall on stuff now is because its being offloaded and the reason behind off loading it is for several reasons , including most astute retailers knowing fine well that the public will have feck all in the way of disposable income very soon

[Libby]

I can't imagine that people haven't noticed the huge increase in food prices. I am not sure if yord's prediction on the price of bread is entirely accurate, but it certainly is going up, up and up! Basic store cupboard items like flour, dried fruit, all cereals, pasta to name but a few have gone through the roof. Similarly cooking oils, butter, cheese - things we used to consider as basics.

I wish i could chomp into a plasma tv and feed my family electrical goods, they are certainly a darn sight cheaper by comparison! lol!

[yord]

yords predictions will be bang on the money. UK Imports ultimately need to be paid for in stirling even when importers are holding us dollars accounts stuffed full of them, if theyre are operating in the UK then it all comes back to stirling or they leave the UK. The pound has got ziltch supporting it apart from devine intervention, no gold reserves and the few and very far inbetween exports are dwindling by the day if not by the hour.How does anyone suppose that imports which by the way the UK is totaly reliant on , including food imports are going to be paid for , with love and kisses ?

[omnipleasant]

The UK exports £300bn worth of stuff, and rising.

Our gold reserves were worth less than the portfolio of currencies etc we replaced it with are.

Our economy is the fifth biggest in the world.

Our currency isn't worth "feck all". It's worth 1.5 dollars and rising, 1.2 Euros and rising, and so on.

I don't know whether you're deliberately trying to build a rather odd, enigmatic persona on a message board, or whether you really do live in a scarily insular world within your own little trading bubble reading the Express and truly believe what you post, Yord.

But suffice to say, sterling has plenty to "back it up", and inflation isn't about to rise to 1000%.

[omnipleasant]

...food is bloody expensive though. £1.20 for a lettuce. A lettuce, for the love of God! Roll on spring, and I'll have 40 or 50 of the little blighters out of my garden for that price.

[flatandy]

And, of course, if the pound does collapse we export more.

[flatandy]

£1.20 for a lettuce? For the love of god, if they cost that much just eat steak.

[omnipleasant]

The fall in the pound has helped a lot, and hopefully the current rises won't carry on too much and it will start to head down again.

A full-on collapse would be a bit of a disaster though - we'd be straying into yordageddon territory then.

[omnipleasant]

I need green type food things to stay alive and stuff, though. And I can't have my home-made kebabs without lettuce. It's ridiculous though. Seriously - a pack of lettuce seeds costs about the same as one lettuce, and will give me at least £50 worth.

Why, it's as if they're buying them in from deepest Africa or something...

[yord]

"Our economy is the fifth biggest in the world"

the only thing the UK has got that is that big is your delusion, and just presuming for 1 insane second that your right , can you tell me just what the feck is the point of having the worlds 5 th largest economy when people are without work, homes and are running that fast round and round in circles that theyre in danger of running up their own arses ?

[flatandy]

Are you some kind of freakish vegetarian type or something?

If lettuce costs too much, eat bacon.

[yord]

"And, of course, if the pound does collapse we export more."

If you want employees working at the equivilent rate of far eastern workers you may have a point, however your going to have a problem paying your council taxes etc from a sack of rice

[yord]

which BTW is exactley where this is heading as the UK will not be able to afford any imports

[yord]

and concerning lettuce at 1.20 a head get used to it . You may think the supermarkets that are selling at that price are just greedy exploiting bastards and youd be wrong. There isnt a supermarket in the country that wants to sell lettuce at 1.20 a head and you need to start figuring out why they are

[flatandy]

Because people wouldn't buy it at the £12.00 a head that they want to sell it for?

[VikingHumpingWitch]

When I see the words "£12.00 a head" I would expect to be on the receiving end of more than a lettuce.