Reuters UK, 19 Jan 2009, Dhara Ranasinghe
SINGAPORE, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Shopping is a national obsession in Singapore, yet this Lunar New Year retailers are struggling to get the city's usually insatiable shoppers to part with their cash as a cloud of economic gloom hangs over Asia.
"Even though there's a 50 percent sale on here, look at the sales counter, there's no one queuing. That's not normal," said Mrs Them, a 47-year-old house wife, browsing through a department store at the city's renowned Orchard Road shopping district.
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