Shoppers 'beginning to spend more'

Nov 18 2009

Shoppers in Scotland are getting back into the buying habit, figures have suggested.

Sales growth in Scotland's shops is lagging behind the UK - but only because the UK sales are recovering from "dismal" low levels of a year ago.

Scotland's like-for-like sales in October were 1.5% higher than the previous October, when they only went up by 0.1%, according to figures from the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC).