Credit Crunch Packed Lunch Causes Increase in Bread Sales!

It seems like more people are using their loaf (excuse the pun), and taking a packed lunch to work during the recession. According to independent retail experts TNS, bread sales increased by 0.5 per cent in the last 12 months and Tesco has reported a growth of 10% of white loaves. It might not seem like much, but according to government figures there was a 35 per cent decline in bread sales until 2007, and an increase in other traditional packed lunch products such as Thermos mugs (up 76 per… More information...