Published by Alexander Bueso on 14th July 2024
(Sharecast News) - Football fans have delivered a £3.1bn boost to the British economy over the past four weeks with £405m expected to be spent at pubs and restaurants for Sunday night's final alone. Over 17m Britons are expected to tune in from their local pub, bar or restaurant and splash out a combined £70.5m and another £280.1m at retailers. Tesco, for one, was anticipating sales of more than 1.0m pizzas and 180,000 packs of burgers between Friday and Sunday. - Sunday Telegraph