Merchants report downturn in holiday sales
BY KIMONE THOMPSON Sunday Observer senior reporter thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com
Sunday, December 21, 2008
THE weekend before Christmas is usually one of the busiest shopping periods of the year but from the looks of things in some shopping districts in Kingston and St Catherine yesterday, merchants will not reap the same level of sales they did in years past.
"If last year was 100 per cent, this year is 80 per cent," Robert George of Royale Jewellers said of yesterday's volume of traffic in his store and the sales that came with it. The sales he did make, he said, were more for jewellery and watches than for small appliances, which the store also stocks. Read more
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