Recession Facts

Some interesting recession based facts from The Times yesterday.

Since last year’s budget in the UK:

Domino’s Pizza profits are up by 25%

Computer games sales are up by 20%

Sales of Argo’s cheapest sewing machines are up by 500%

Sales of turnips are up by 75%

Lunch box sales are up 75%

The average amount left under the pillow by the tooth fairy has gone down by 30%

Another interesting fact I discovered the other day whilst in conversation with a friend is that demand for osteopath’s are up (I thought that this would be an income elastic product) as people are keen to miss as few a days as possible from work because they fear for the security of their jobs.