Nicely, yesterday was 11:11 (eleventh of November) in any other case the “singles day” which originated in China by some college college students in reply to February 14th. Individuals are alleged to deal with themselves that day. However hey, as I beforehand talked about right here a number of occasions, we’ve the artwork of importing exterior traditions with out the accompanying rationale (see right here for a very good instance, and right here is one other). So “singles day” turned simply one other excuse for dropping restricted gross sales, flash gross sales, gross sales for someday and many others…. In fact, the market is doing extremely unhealthy. A neighborhood model I do know has gone on the sale for the primary time since 2013 (its inception). Others are doing the identical – underneath totally different guises (“black” so and so – right here is an efficient instance from this yr).
The market did present slight indicators of recovering (I insist, slight) however there we hopes right here and there. And now, what’s what is occurring in Palestine/Israel and even within the south of Lebanon the place the state of affairs is unstable and unpredictable, everybody goes to panic mode in some way, all of the sudden the inhabitants has gone again to primary consumption (meals, medication, primary requirements and many others…). Thus far the climate is clement, which signifies that heating payments nonetheless didn’t issue majorly in bills, however ought to chilly actually begin creeping in formally, this can solely add to the bills of individuals and households.
