Local Business

Purchases were stronger in condos, apartments, duplexes and vacant land

There are dozens of green-tinged trinkets off the coast of B.C. that could draw more attention and perhaps make it onto the shopping list for anyone lucky enough to win tonight’s record $70-million jackpot lottery.

With consumer sales making up roughly 78 per cent of the national GDP, as retail goes, so goes the economy. Retail sales have been slowing across the country in recent months, and 2020 is expected to be more of the same.

The Better Business Bureau received about 4,100 complaints in 2019, with credit repair services topping the list. The BBB released its annual list of top complaints, as well as the top inquiries.

Last year the provincial economy downshifted to its slowest expansion since the 2009 recession. Fortunately, 2020 is looking a little brighter thanks to an upswing in non-residential construction.

Products expected on legal retail store shelves in late December

Local producers under increased pressure to meet booming demand for content

Cable TV, streaming services are boosting annual demand for festive film productions

Debate may rage over the ideal variety, the proper height and even the colour of a Christmas tree. There will be those convinced that in days of yore they paid considerably less for a real tree, which years ago was much easier to find.

However, vacant land sales are up over previous year