Despite recession, Britons continue to shop until their income drops (Guardian Unlimited)

November's dip in retail sales still leaves the figures higher than last year, but can this carry on into 2010? Napoleon once called Britain a nation of shopkeepers. Two centuries on, Boney would need to amend his insult. Britain is not so much a nation of shopkeepers as a nation of shoppers. Even the biggest fall in output in almost 90 years has failed to keep the public out of the malls over ...