Christmas Eve sales slower than predicted (Reuters)

RSS News User · 25th December 2005, 09:35 AM

<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051224/bs_nm/retail_walmart_sales_dc"><img src="http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/nm/20051224/2005_12_24t152937_450x299_us_retail_walmart_sales. jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=NTch3ZzeC02gCA4uCq6qTw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Shoppers walk on Herald Square in New York December 24, 2005. Local retailers are hoping that people will do extra shopping on the last day before Christmas because of lost business arising from the three-day transit strike earlier this week. (Seth Wenig/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - U.S. retailers faced
slower-than-expected traffic in stores on the last shopping day
before Christmas as extended hours and steep discounts failed
to draw a big crowd of shoppers.</p><br clear=all>

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