Let Christmas Shopping Begin!

9 Dec 2021

The festive season has started earlier this year, with some people having already put up their decorations and written their Christmas cards. While this might sound a little premature, one thing many Brits have admitted to doing already is their Christmas shopping.

Before you can say ‘Bah Hambug’, total retail sales grew by 6.3 per cent in October compared with the same month in 2019, according to the latest figures from the British Retail Consortium (BRC).

Non-food sales have been particularly popular, increasing by 7.4 per cent for the three months leading to October compared with the same period two years ago, pre-Covid-19.

This seems to suggest that shoppers are out in full force purchasing non-essential goods, such as presents.

“Some people started their Christmas shopping early with beauty advent calendars flying off the shelves and searches for Christmas items ramping up online,” Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the BRC, said.

She noted that “customer demand is getting back on track ahead of Christmas”, and pre-pandemic levels have even been seen.

Despite lots of people having had a difficult time financially over the last couple of years, the public want to make the most of the celebratory season, it appears. In fact, the latest M&S Family Matters report revealed that more than a third of families are planning more to mark the festive season than they had done before the pandemic.

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