empty shelves and despite all those supply chain problems and labour shortages which were real, i think actually retailers have had a pretty decent christmas overall. as for this one, well, it s had a really good one. m and s is a christmas winner and i think that s because food has done particularly well, more than i2% up compared with the same period before the pandemic, and actually it said it had its best everfood actually it said it had its best ever food sales in the week before christmas. clothing and home also up a bit. as for tesco, its uk sales were up more than 7%, so clearly the supermarkets have benefited from more people eating, drinking, entertaining at home, having deserted pubs and restaurants because of the omicron effect. now of course omicron has clearly impacted the high street but people carried on spending. there is online and the demand was there, people wanted to treat themselves and to
joining us now with a look at axios a.m., the co-founder of axios. mike, great to see you. what is the axios one big thing for this monday morning? the axios one big thing is the omicron effect on jobs. so this is going to be big news at the end of the week. it looks like the jobs number may turn negative for the first time since president biden took office. the omicron effect hit in january, the exact survey week that s pulled for the jobs numbers that gets so much attention is the week when the cdc says that omicron was peaking. so we are looking at the weakest jobs number since december 2020. the white house is getting ahead of this. they had a conversation with
Abstract: After months of what seemed to be a receding pandemic supported by vaccines and adherence to new COVID appropriate protocols as the new normal,.