Doing the Double-Dip.

Right, it is official. Mole's Economic Barometer reads 'Double Dip.'

Just a few indicators that the retail front is as fit as an arthritic limbo dancer;

1)When ten percent day rolls around , we practically have to send out a taxis to fetch customers to the store.

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2) When you ask if a customer would like the lip-liner that matches the lipstick they are buying, they shoo you to the till in reply.

Otherwise we are still shifting lipstick by the bucket load.  ( Little known fact, we sell more lipstick in times of recession)

There we go, complete fiscal break down of the high-street, via your friendly local tut pushers. Hoping for our own programme on BBC 2, which we would illustrate said phenomenon via pie charts coloured in with eye shadow .

Yes, we bloody know it's sunny.......

Yes, thank you, we know it is sunny outside.
We can tell.
 Do you know how?
Because , you are wearing a maxi dress and sandals. Now take a good look at every consultant in the store and once you have got past the smacked arse faces that we are displaying, notice the tightly gripped jaw lines as we slam your purchases into our Luxury paper bags. We are more than aware of the weather outside, but we are also sweating our balls off in tights, mixed fabric skirts, jackets, t-shirts and maybe the odd woolly top.
Please excuse us, if we are bitter, but the closest any of us are going to get to a tan is San Tropez and fifteen minutes in a park over our sandwiches with a couple of drunks on a park bench nearby to add to the atmosphere.

Hurrah!