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By John Glenday-09 February 2021 00:01am Spending on non-essentials has slumped to 24.2% Consumer spending has suffered its largest drop since May 2020, slumping 16.3% in January due to a national lockdown that badly hit retail, hospitality and travel. On the bright side, data compiled by Barclaycard shows that spending on essential items such as groceries rose 3.9%, bolstered by a 17% rise in overall supermarket expenditure, with online supermarket spend surging 126.8% on the b...

The billions of folks who browse the internet every day are not up in arms about Google's announcement last week proposing cohort-based targeting as the replacement for cookies.

Another local lockdown, another outbreak of shoppers stockpiling. Fortunately supply chains are now prepared.

Mintel Announces Global Consumer Trends for 2021 Wednesday, January 27, 2021 10:00AM IST (4:30AM GMT)   Mumbai, Maharashtra, India:  Mintel, the experts in what consumers want and why, has announced seven trends set to impact global consumer markets in 2021, including analysis, insights, and recommendations centred around consumer behaviour, market shifts, innovative brands, and opportunities for companies and brands to act on in the...

viz., "a supra-national entity that has laws, courts and the means to enforce the peace." RedLogix 1.1.1.1.1.1 In my view that while the ICC was undeniably a good idea, it never attained the commitment across the board to permit it to succeed. Ill go back to my original parallel; the reason why nation states are mostly lawful and peaceful places is that ordinary citizens forgo the right to coercion and revenge and place it solely in the hands of the nation state. In the ca...

RedLogix 2.1 Interestingly that article starts with a description of appallingly bad safety standards at a major petrochem site in the 1960s. Yet remarkably everything has changed in the 50 years since; the events he describes are pretty much unthinkable in a developed country today. In particular: One day, Sherman was standing in a room, leaning over a large pipe to check a filter, when an operator in a distant control room mistakenly turned a knob, sending hot, almond-sm...

Invercargill and Dunedin have been closed by floods once a decade or so. Graeme 1.1.1 Large parts of Dunedin are below mean sea level, some around a metre. Invercargill is just above, but close enough that a flood combined with a high tide makes things pretty wet. Both suffer from being built on very weak ground, especially Invercargill, so both are never going to be more than they are now and unlikely to get much future investment. Its not only airports that are at risk...

Written By: weka - Date published: 6:06 am, January 23rd, 2021 - 38 comments When the government proposed declaring a climate emergency in December last year, Jacinda Ardern said this, This declaration is an acknowledgment of the next generation: an acknowledgment of the burden that they will carry if we do not get this right and if we do not take action now. When I visit schools, when I read children’s letters, I’m often...

Budget 2021 will be delivered on Thursday 20 May, Finance Minister Grant Robertson announced today. “My focus continues to be on making sure spending is targeted at the areas and people that need it the most. “We will manage the books carefully including ensuring we are getting value for money ... 16 hours ago Morena ki a tatau, Tena tatau i nga kaupapa hauora, E tuitui nei i a tatau i tēnei ata, Ka nui te mihi ki a koutou katoa. When we were re-elected with a clear mandate for change, ou...

How we can save advertising from ourselves Details This post is sponsored by TMRW. The usual frenzied pace of life that most of us were accustomed to came to a halt last year when the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded around the world. Many workplaces were shut down. Restaurants, gyms, theatres and shopping malls closed. Before we knew it, many of us started spending days and weeks sequestered in our homes. Even as our economy started opening up late last year, the way we n...