Total group sales were up 4.6% for the year, but in its retail sales divisions - which exclude Halfords' car-servicing business line - they were down 5.3%.
With a conventional car, we could fuel them or look at the servicing of them or do other things we potentially have not thought of doing before that utilizes the real estate and the utilizes convenience.
However the report said that increased competition had brought down the cost of fixed line telephone costs while lower servicing charges and tyre costs had reduced the cost of car upkeep.