Sir, - Una McCaffrey, in reporting on the euro changeover, focuses on gloom, doom and problems. In the real market there are always winners and losers. Retailers who serve their customers well will prosper. Those who don't won't.
Prices for consumers in January 2002 will be 20 per cent to 50 per cent lower than in the pre-Christmas period, when city retailers operate their "January sales". The EU Commission attempt to have the January sales cancelled, which would have kept prices high, has been rejected by the Dublin City Centre Business Association. - Yours, etc.,
Tom Coffey, Chief Executive, DCCBA, Dawson Street, Dublin 2.