After Christmas Sales

News about Christmas Shopping 2011

Canadians more hesitant to take on debt, study finds

But TransUnion officials note that the slight increase in average consumer debt at the end of 2011 is in line with historical increases in debt during the Christmas shopping season. For the year as a whole, however, credit grew by just under one per ...

Christmas shopping not so cheery this year

The fall-off followed a revised 0.4 per cent pop in November, an indication that shoppers had both completed their Christmas shopping early and were cautious consumers during the holiday season, analysts said. "The overall story here is that after a ...

Price-cutting is 'only factor driving UK growth'

Data released last week by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the total value of retail sales was up 3.5 per cent in January compared with the same month in 2011. As this is in line with inflation recorded in January, any growth in ...

Gas, vehicles drive retail hike

And then when we got to December, sales in Nova Scotia had gone up, which was against the Canadian trend," said Statistics Canada analyst Jake Purdy in a phone interview from Ottawa. Preliminary figures for all of 2011, which will be made official in ...