Okay.
Operator
And our next question will come from the line of Tien-Tsin Huang with J.P. Morgan. Please proceed.
Tien-Tsin Huang - J.P. Morgan
Thanks. Just to expand on Bryan''s question, I guess, were there any surprises in the quarter in terms of country or regional performance?
Christina A. Gold
I would say no. I think it''s pretty consistent with all of the other quarters, there were no, if we look at different countries, there was no major deterioration or things that kind of did not perform consistently. So I think we felt pretty comfortable that things had stabilized for us in our business.
Scott T. Scheirman
And Tien, this is Scott, what I would add is U.S. outbound trends were consistent with the last few quarters.
Christina A. Gold
Yeah.
Scott T. Scheirman
Western Europe were consistent and those are major send areas for us. Gulf, although the transaction growth trends are strong, there was some moderation but C2C transactions both Q2, Q3 were 3%. And then the average principal per transaction on a constant currency basis was down 4%, which was a slight moderation from the second quarter, so the average ticket price is hanging in there too.
Tien-Tsin Huang - J.P. Morgan
Right. On the Mexico front, just the Vigo branded performance. How much of that is tied to the proactive store closings that you referred to last quarter versus the other factors. Can you just give us an update there?
Christina A. Gold
We''re seeing that the small retailers and the Vigo, that''s really where we''re seeing the underperformance, so obviously it is tied to Vigo performance and the small independents. But if we look at our major chains, they''re performing up to the market level. So we''re not seeing the same number of closures or the same issues that we had in the first half but obviously it rolls into second half because those locations are no longer there. But Stewart and his team is looking aggressively to try to increase the number of independents in the network.
Tien-Tsin Huang - J.P. Morgan
Okay. The solution is to expand the network from here and the other changes that might be on the horizon?
Christina A. Gold
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