Umbrellas

摘要

1. Despite a cloudy retail environment, umbrella business had an 8 percent gain over 2008. Unit sales, however, were down 6 percent.rn2. The average unit price for umbrellas, $6, and nearly 70 percent of the sales were at regular price.rn3. Mother Nature helped too. 2009 was the second wettest year in a decade in most of the heavily populated regions.