Shops book higher sales in April
The retail trade sector booked a 3.1% increase in sales in April of this year, compared with April 2007, says the national statistics office CBS.
Prices were up 2% and volume 1%. But while internet shops saw 20% sales growth, clothes shops and garden centres booked a fall in turnover.
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