{"id":487734,"date":"2026-02-20T13:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/487734\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T13:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:33:07","slug":"new-years-sport-supplement-buying-adds-to-january-retail-sales-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/487734\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s sport supplement buying adds to January retail sales surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Hewson cautioned that the monthly rise should be taken with &#8220;a big pinch of salt&#8221;, citing ONS figures showing sales volumes grew by just 0.1% in the three months to January, compared with the three months to October 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s clear consumers are still under pressure and still making complicated decisions about where to spend every penny,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Separate ONS data released this week put unemployment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c1l7pedyzjeo?app-referrer=deep-link\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at a near five-year high<\/a> at the end of last year, with wage growth also slowing to 4.2%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul Dales, chief UK economist at Capital Economics, said the surge in sports supplement sales suggested that &#8220;the new year resolution health-kick has made the economy look more healthy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But with employment growth weak and wage growth slowing, households won&#8217;t be able to maintain this rate of spending,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But Hewson cautioned that the monthly rise should be taken with &#8220;a big pinch of salt&#8221;, citing ONS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[49,48,84,395],"class_list":["post-487734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}