In comparison, grocery sales were hugely increased this past Christmas - https://www.kantar.com/uki/inspiration/fmcg/2024-wp-record-numbers-hit-the-shops-as-supermarkets-experience-busiest-christmas-since-2019 .

Perhaps messages about being eco conscious have moved some people away from spending on plastic tat and focused more on having lavish food for the Christmas period? Or does this figure not take into account inflation and this is just to do with food price inflation being higher than other sectors?

Hopefully, if the big bosses of various big companies are indeed in some kind of club with each other, this is where the bosses of the companies that “suffered” have a quiet word with the bosses of the companies that did well in order to ensure the fairer redistribution of wealth. (At their level. Screw everyone else.)

It might mean a levelling of prices back to the same kind of ratio we preferred. The prices very much won’t be to our liking unfortunately, but the ratios will be nicer. Hopefully.

And it might mean the greedier C-levels have to sulk about things for a while, instead of the ones that “suffered”, which is the only positive that can come out of all of this for the rest of us.