{"id":896116,"date":"2026-10-27T07:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T07:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/896116\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T07:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T07:20:12","slug":"sharp-rise-in-sales-of-essential-goods-after-government-says-to-stock-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/896116\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharp rise in sales of essential goods after government says to stock up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">In response to the increase in retail sales of certain items, the defence secretary told Newsnight: &#8220;It&#8217;s encouraging that people are taking practical steps to be ready. Having a few everyday essentials at home, from tinned food to torches, helps households prepare for disruption, whether that&#8217;s flooding, power cuts or burst pipes. We can all play our part in making Britain more resilient.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In response to the increase in retail sales of certain items, the defence secretary told Newsnight: &#8220;It&#8217;s encouraging&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-896116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}