Strangely, the rainy weather dampened not only people's enthusiasm for traveling, but also the shopping interest. Let's take a look at the holiday business. 

At the Intime Tiyi-Square Store, the business is not so brisk when compared with that before the holiday week. According to a manager of the store, the continual rains have also affected the business, and caused a drop of turnover during the holiday week. Things in the new Hualian store to the opposite are similar. 

Huang Qunli, Manager of New Hualian Store, tells us that as the weather is bad, some people will not come out to shop except those consumers with purpose of buying something. 

As the weather on October 1 was good, the business was good too. On this very day, the turnover in ten big stores and supermarkets in Ningbo totaled 30 million RMB yuan, a rise of 30% over the same period last year. Starting from October 2, with the typhoon coming, the number of people going into stores dropped drastically. On the third day of the holiday week, most people chose to stay home and even fewer people visited shops. The business turnover on the fourth and firth days in the 10 big business establishments dropped by 20% over the same period last year, the catering business dropped by 30%.