Euro zone shoppers still set in national ways

If you haven't started your Christmas shopping yet, you might be interested to learn that, despite the launch of the euro, the price of a product in one EU member state can be as much as 40 percent higher or lower than the EU average.

But shoppers in the EU are failing to snap up these potential bargains in other countries, a new poll has shown.

Only 12 percent of consumers in the EU have bought goods or services from retailers in other EU countries in the past year, a new Eurob...