Sentence examples for retail drag from inspiring English sources

That event scared residents away from Main Street, Middletown's main retail drag, whose marquee department stores, including an Art Deco Woolworth's, had already fallen victim to the intrusion of nearby shopping malls.

The day before, while I'd browsed in the tourist information shop in Brisbane's main retail drag, one of the assistants, seeing me pause at a rack of North Stradbroke Island brochures, had said emphatically "paradise island" – a phrase so twee that I inwardly groaned.

Retail sales growth slowed in September among 19 major American retailers, dragged down by a big decline in prescription sales at Walgreens drugstores.

The retail sector dragged the market lower after several chains, including Target and Gap, fell when they missed April sales estimates.

The Nasdaq market ended slightly higher yesterday, a day after Cisco Systems reported strong results, while interest-rate-sensitive banking and retail shares dragged down blue chip stocks.

Unlike the accelerated sale last month that wrapped up Lloyds' first offering in a few hours, retail offers can drag on for over a week, giving hedge funds ample time to short the stock.

The literary agent Andrew Wylie (whose firm represents me) says, "What Bezos wants is to drag the retail price down as low as he can get it — a dollar-ninety-nine, even ninety-nine cents.

The warning was enough to make Next the biggest loser in the FTSE 100 index, with its shares down more than 7% at £20.37, and drag other retail stocks lower.

Lower gas prices drag down retail sales in February.

November's monthly drop paled in comparison to a record fall in October, when falling car sales dragged broader retail numbers down by a revised 2.9percentt.

"Retail used to lead, dragging customers with it, but we stand alongside now and aid and support everything they want to do, and it's a very different ideology.