Shops reopen for winter sales

Shopping malls around the country reopened on Friday after a short Christmas break launching their winter sales. Hundreds of items have been re-priced with cuts of 30 to 60 percent. According to surveys a third of Czechs regularly put off bigger purchases until the sales season, giving each other symbolic gifts for Christmas and twenty percent of respondents said they got money or vouchers as Christmas gifts. The winter sales are expected to last until mid-February.