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Retail sales in Great Britain fall despite heatwave increasing food and drink demand
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2026
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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
Nononono you fool, we just need to increase the amount of adverts everywhere, make them more colourful, loud and invasive! (/s just in case)
No way, it's obviously immigrants
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
I thought we're not doing the /s here, byt yes just to clarify, big /s
Given that these are month-on-month figures, no.
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. No relation at alllll.
Factors which remain the same from month to month (like climate change, ongoing wars, and cost-of-living crises) necessarily have similar impacts on those different months. Therefore if there's a different impact - in this case seen in volume of goods sold - then that must be due to things that are different between those two month. Surely you agree with that?
You didn't mention these in your first comment.