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Azeem Azhar Profile picture
@azeem
May 25, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
We've seen the chart on the spike in online sales in the past couple of months.

Looks impressive 1/4 Image
But overall retail sales have collapsed

2/4 Image
Especially in some offline sectors:
notably clothing -50.2%
department stores -25.3%
household goods, -45.4%
fuel -52%

See: ons.gov.uk/businessindust…

3/4
So the rise in online sales is in the context of an overall decline in retail volume.

Impressive though a 30%-ish spike looks, online sales in April 2020 were only 13% higher than the monthly average in Q4 last year.

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🔥🔥 The day after the IPCC report, how is the media covering the climate crisis & the work being done to tackle it on its front pages?

Let's review (and at the end I'll give some suggestions)

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The @BBCNews

Nothing.

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The @thetimes

Nothing.

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