Shopper numbers fall over weekend
Shopper numbers fell 8.7 percent over the weekend compared with the corresponding days last year, signalling consumers are still holding back on spending with just three shopping days left to Christmas, a survey showed on Monday.
Retail sales fell for the tenth month in a row, with a balance of 47% of retailers registering drops in the first two weeks of the year, according to the CBI business group's Distributive Trades Survey.