1.   Consumer electronics retailers were hit the hardest.

2.   Retailers are in the immediate line of fire and were first to bear the brunt of cost cutting.

3.   Retailers are worried, as business has been quiet for much of December.

4.   Retailers have been almost unanimous in reporting higher Christmas sales.

5.   Retailers were delighted, likening the sales pace to the Christmas season.

6.   The major food retailers are still planning to expand their chains of stores and will therefore remain important clients.

7.   Your carpet retailer will be able to give you all the details.

8.   The crop therefore has to be picked in an immature state if retailers are not to run the risk of being left with over-soft, unsaleable tomatoes.

9.   If the first retailer has only been in business a short time before the second retailer opens his store then it is unlikely that anything can be done.

10.   Abattoirs which concentrate on supplying beef to the domestic market have hit problems because retailers are unable to pass back their high procurement costs.