Pantaloon Retail fell 12%, Koutons Retail lost 7.3% and Shoppers Stop dropped 2.8%.

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It can yield data such as how many Victoria's Secret shoppers also stop at Starbucks.

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Maybe instead of kicking out the Kindle, retailers could stop sending shoppers to the competition via ads on their own Web sites.

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Meanwhile, in Europe the currency crisis did not stop 14 percent of wealthy shoppers in France and 17 percent of those in Italy from boosting luxury spending this year, according to the survey, which represents the top 10 percent in household income.

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The goal was to lower prices across the store, stop spending money on hundreds of promotions every year and simply give shoppers good quality product at a fair price.

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She said charity shops were not taking shoppers away from other stores because people "aren't coming to town centres full stop".

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