I'm sorry to say that sales last month were rather disappointing. Let me start by showing you some figures. Now,if you look at graph a , you can see that sales of home improvement supplies rose slightly,to just over three million dollars. Graph b shows that in the stationery section,sales remained constant at $1.8m. As for household appliances,you can see in graph c that sales fell sharply from 3.2m to 1.7m. However,I have some good news.As you can see in graph d,cosmetics sales rose sharply last month from 1.5m. to 4m. Now let's look at the figures in more detail.