>>> sales = np.genfromtxt("shop_sales_figures.txt", dtype=None)
>>> sales
array([[b'Year', b'Frankfurt', b'Munich', b'Zurich'],
[b'2000', b'1245.89', b'2220.00', b'1936.25'],
[b'2001', b'1289.99', b'2405.14', b'2064.32'],
[b'2002', b'1379.04', b'1984.90', b'1879.30'],
[b'2003', b'1450.89', b'2178.34', b'2027.51'],
[b'2004', b'1680.98', b'2163.86', b'2147.96'],
[b'2005', b'1860.33', b'2079.97', b'2201.28'],
[b'2006', b'2103.54', b'2310.92', b'2466.17'],
[b'2007', b'2354.54', b'2360.46', b'2634.07'],
[b'2008', b'2648.10', b'2433.92', b'2839.12'],
[b'2009', b'2971.56', b'2566.19', b'3093.72'],
[b'2010', b'3338.08', b'2661.59', b'3351.77'],
[b'2011', b'3747.93', b'2774.12', b'3643.60'],
[b'2012', b'4209.09', b'2901.24', b'3972.25'],
[b'2013', b'4726.47', b'3026.45', b'4331.24'],
[b'2014', b'5307.72', b'3162.80', b'4732.13']],
dtype='|S9')
>>>