I keep very detailed records of all the items I sell both in my main store and from the six rented spaces I have set up vendors throughout different malls in SL.
Since more additions were added to the search and all previous 'shopping' has defaulted to 'business' in the search pulldown menu I have seen a decrease in sales at a whopping 76.4% from the same period of time one month before and a 65% decrease from the month before that on my P&L spreadsheets from all my rented vendor spaces in the malls.
My main store is doing a very brisk business, but i found that the malls are not listed under "business' but under the 'shopping' option.
My numbers do not lie - so my conclusion is that players are not searching under "shopping' anymore thus hurting those stores/malls listed there.
I don't understand the reason to split something that should of stayed as it was before - if a parcel sells something - of course - its a business but its also shopping.
Lets not make it harder to find things in search and merge 'business and 'shopping' as one again please.