Big Freeze sees retail sales down 38%: Retail Ireland

[hiding behind a poster]

Whereas you can still go out and buy that new TV in the next week or so you cannot make up for the lost few pints in the pub because the footpath to the local was a ice rink

Oh but you can. Where there's a will there's a way.

[charley]

IBEC now saying big freeze cost €700 million

[Cassandra Syndrome]

IBEC now saying big freeze cost €700 million

Do you reckon they use a dartboard to calculate these figures?

[charley]

oijju board and loads of masonic paraphenalia

[bessiebell]

With a much greater fall in non-food retailers. On the up side it should mean good sales will be on in the next week. The VAT and excise returns for January will be interesting. Whereas you can still go out and buy that new TV in the next week or so you cannot make up for the lost few pints in the pub because the footpath to the local was a ice rink or take that hotel package break you intended to when you were off work etc.
BUSINESS WORLD - Big Freeze sees 38pc retail sales fall

Do the figures out today not suggest that this was a great exaggeration?