THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, December 29, 1994 TAG: 9412290464
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: D1 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Daily Digest
SOURCE: AP
LENGTH: Short : 21 lines
Sales paid for by check were up 10.6 percent in Virginia during the Christmas shopping season in one of the nation's strongest retail performances, according to a firm that monitors the sales. Virginia trailed only the San Antonio-Austin area of Texas, where sales paid for by check rose 12.4 percent, and Boston, where they climbed 11.9 percent, said TeleCheck Inc. of Houston. The company said that sales paid for by check across the country were up 5.1 percent.< by CNB