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Pamela O'Brien of the At Home furniture and household accessory store cheap links of london ringson Dale Road in Modesto said that sales crept up this holiday season compared with a year ago.We are at the bottom of the bowl and climbing up, but it is not near what it was several years ago, she said.Competing with big box centecheap links of london earringsrs required independent retailers to offer aggressive discounts, O'Brien said, and the store pushed gift items such as TOMS shoes.Local retailers also have to contend with online buying. People sometimes use the store to size footwear acheap links of london banglesnd then drive home to buy it online, O'Brien said.For Vintage Faire Mall, sales going into the cheap links of london braceletsholiday season were up almost 6 percent from a year ago. But there are no firm numbers yet for December.The economy in the area is still tough, Halstead said. And I don't know if people necessarily felt like they could spend more frivolously.