Out of town retailers were the next worst hit, with numbers down by 4.2% and shopping centres, which offer the most protection against the weather, down by 2.4%.
Those who wish to bypass the green can take Zona's complimentary shuttle to Downtown Scottsdale for world-class shopping at more than 2, 000 boutiques and stores.
The analyst community believes that the holiday shopping season will be up 2% year over year.
He owns three hotels (two Marriotts and a Grand Hyatt) in the same city but his showpiece is an upcoming 2.5 million sq ft shopping mall, the first LuLu outlet in India.
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Buyers looking for 2, 000 square foot houses will be shopping in other neighborhoods.
Barbara Rademacher woke at 2 a.m. to see the shopping scene and found shoppers huddling outside a Best Buy in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
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Covered shopping centres performed better but still saw a fall of 2.4%.
Mobile apps have become the proverbial Swiss Army Knife of shopping, helping consumers shop a dozen times a day rather than 2-3 times per week.
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According to the British Retail Consortium (BRC), 11.2 per cent of all shops on high streets and in shopping centres are vacant.
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Touted as "the guide to fast and easy shopping on the web, " the book offers information to more than 2, 500 online stories featuring everything from baby products to chocolate.
In 2004 Taylor tried shopping it around for play on a console like the Microsoft Xbox or Sony PlayStation 2, but no publisher wanted to risk a flop.
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UK-wide footfall fell for both out-of-town destinations and shopping centres, but the high street experienced the first annual increase for three months, reaching 2.7%.
The survey, conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of CareerBuilder, asked more than 2, 400 employers and 3, 976 workers about their plans for online holiday shopping this year.
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Mr Jones told MPs that internet shopping had made a "dramatic impact" on the industry, with online sales accounting for 12.2% of all retail sales.
According to Global Refund, a company specializing in tax-free shopping for tourists, the Chinese account for 15% of all luxury items purchased in France but less than 2% of its visitors.
Over the last several weeks, in a multipart series on Obamacare ( part 1, part 2, part 3), a recurring theme I have discussed is the seemingly prosaic virtue of shopping.
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