Nope..

Nope, just buy what I need + all the toys I can get without my household dictator putting a veto on. Do not care about news crap about consumers' confidence. It is just like late hours or Sunday trade, the idiots (big retailers) have to realize that we have a fixed amount of dosh to spend monthly the formula is very simple:
disposable income divided by the numbers of shopping hours give you the amount that can be spent per hours, increase the number of shopping hours and the amount per hours will proportionally decrease! .But the cost of running a shop will proportionally increase , the shopping centre occupancy by shoppers per hours first will decrease and the natural selection will make lot of small shop tenants close their businesses .
On a brighter note more shopping hours will be good for people that can't afford heating or cooling their homes to go somewhere comfy for free!

dumb i know but
I earn it/I spend it, with confidence

That's what I thought. The whole consumer "confidence is at a low which is dragging down spending is a farce". It's always about someone else.

As my friend Barky used to say
"No mon, no fun"

is our country perhaps too greedy and the prices of everything too high... ? hence people are looking for better deals elsewhere... online... overseas...
i can't afford to go to a big retail store and pay X amount for something that costs half or a third elsewhere...

the stores in the city were packed every day.. i see people lining up in queues infront of new opening stores...

i still buy equal amount of ongoing necessary consumables every year...

i go to a store and say i legitimatelly found the same thing for X amount, can you match that, and they say "sorry we can't", despite me walking away.

Consumer confidence? or greedy retailers?