Stores use offers to charm snake year shoppers

From free hand pouches at Coach to discounts on flat-screen televisions at Gome Electrical Appliances, retailers are dangling promotions to lure mainland shoppers during next week's Lunar New Year holiday.

The offers, combined with an improving economic outlook in the world's second-largest economy, are set to give retail sales a boost during the biggest buying season of the year. Mainland retail sales for January and February might rise 15.4 per cent, the fastest pace in 13 months, according to nine economists surveyed by Bloomberg.

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