Complete monthly data for retail sales in January will not be released until later this week, but the weekly data already available for last month showed a steady deterioration in shopping activity.
Other productions here this fall have also been plucked from American film and stage, including "Speed-the-Plow," "The Odd Couple," "Match," "The Seven-Year Itch," "A Steady Rain," "The Shop Around the Corner" and "The Vagina Monologues".
2016 was the hundredth anniversary of Kmart's incorporation; the hint of self-consciously campy nostalgia in its new "look and feel" seems connected to the steady decay of the shopping experience that once helped to define, and to bolster, a wide swath of working- and lower-middle-class life in America.
This information means that the steady growth of online shopping has become the focus of corporate concerns.
Most days Mrs. McKirdy can count on two or three steady volunteers, although the shop has a roster of 10.
Seldom at the vanguard of change, the Italian capital is experiencing a landscape shift from classical to cutting-edge, thanks to a steady influx of cool shops, bars, museums and galleries.
On a typical Sunday the usual pattern is that the Stalham shop has steady business until 4pm (when Tesco closes), followed by a spike in footfall at around 5pm-6pm untit it closes at 9pm, as people stock up with food and drink for the evening.
Now in her 80s, ill and frail, she rested one hand on the metal shopping cart to steady herself as we inched along.
Slowly, the model caught on in the United States, where online beauty shopping has remained steady in the last year even as the number of shoppers in brick-and-mortar stores and on television home shopping has declined, said Karen Grant, senior beauty analyst at the NPD Group, a research firm.
