Storms dampen Britain’s high street Christmas shopping rush

Despite big pink signs announcing gross sales of as much as 70 percent, many of the stores on London's Oxford Street had been quiet on Monday, with many patrons heeding the recommendation of the national climate provider to remain at residence. "With the climate, well, it's in point of fact quiet," client Betty Sanger advised Reuters within the Marks & Spencer's Oxford Street retailer, having snapped up discounted toiletries. The Waitrose division retailer-supermarket in London's Canary Wharf had long traces ready at tills. Regardless of tentative signs of recovery in Britain's economic system, consumers are however feeling the pinch as wages have did not keep percent with inflation.