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Fri 11 Nov 2009Shops braced for winter of discontent
While some retailers are still doing solid business, footfall in shopping malls can be deceptive these days, writes LAURA SLATTERY
THE KIDDEZ Kabs are missing their toddler passengers, but there is little else in the impressively thronged Friday morning malls at the Blanchardstown Centre to suggest 2009 is a year in which the Irish retail sector has shed more than 30,000 jobs. On the surface, at least, it is business as usual at the beginning of its 14th Christmas season: gargantuan trees bedecked with golden balls, and polar bears clutching Coke bottles over Santa’s grotto.
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