Shoppers walk past Gingerbread House Christmas decorations at the Grove at Farmer’s Market in Los Angeles, California, yesterday. US retail sales faltered for the second consecutive month in November, the beginning of the crucial year-end holiday shopping season, official data released last week showed.

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