Rag Tales Weekly News round Up
A call from a journalist from the Independent Newspaper had me giving my opinion on the start of the ‘bounce’ in the economy to a level of spending that was painfully absent from the retail sector last year. During the conversation it transpired the journalist in question is a reader of my blog!. The minute the word ‘crap’ came out of my mouth I knew it would be printed for all to see and I was right. I stand by my comments but perhaps I should have chosen a different word, rubbish, perhaps? To read the full article which was published in Saturdays print edition and is online go to The Independent
Sales are in full swing here and the debate in the industry is one of whether there should be legislation to prevent sales starting before July. There is a good argument for this because once the stores go into sale the smaller shops have no choice but to follow suit. Large stores in many cases have special arrangements with suppliers to minimise their risk and so have the advantage. As the season is so short it makes sense that retailers would have at least an adequate time frame in which to sell at full price.
The Irish Derby is on today so I’ll be taking my camera and hopefully getting a few photographs before I hit the champagne! Every year I enter every competition I can to win tickets and this year I won two entry tickets from stylebible.ie so big thanks to them!
