Consumption is up 3.1 per cent, according to mastercard, but online retailers are experiencing the best performance of the sales growth, up 12 per cent year on year. Although the supermarket's busiest day is expected to be Friday, card operators have found that spending on groceries has fallen by 0.1% so far. Now, however, that wisdom is being questioned, not just in Britain. As long as inflation is a real and present danger, it makes sense to put monetary policy down to the conservative central bankers and keep them from the government's fiscal deficit. Instead, the problem today is the opposite: that the central bank cannot raise inflation to its target. “We’re very proud of the way that the glass industry has come together to face the challenge of energy efficiency and decarbonisation - which will continue to define all manufacturing and markets for the coming decades.