SUMMER SALES NOW AUTUMN ONES

It looks as if the stores in Malaga are having one continuous sale this year. Sale posters offer 2x1 and 50% discounts are splashed across the windows of household goods, clothes and shoe stores and many jewellers', as their owners vie for an ever-dwindling number of shoppers. A spokesman for the Malaga Trade Federation, Fecoma, said most stores had suffered drops in sales ranging from 25% to 40%. He said the mild weather hadn't helped either as people didn't feel the need to buy winter clothes yet. He added that a growing number of people appeared to be prepared to make do with last winter's clothes.