A combination of snow curtailing the vital Christmas shopping period and an increase of VAT to 20% coming on January 4 has left retailers with a vital, brief window to offset losses and shift stock.
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Battered stores hang hopes on Boxing Day sales
Today’s Boxing Day sales are the most crucial in recent memory, with many Scottish small businesses facing bankruptcy should they fail to make up in the next 10 days for a disappointing year’s trading.
