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Bargain-hunting shoppers turned out in droves for Black Friday markdowns, but they didn't open their pocketbooks as widely as last year, according to several retail firms tracking the data. As a result, retailers are only cautiously optimistic heading into the mainstream holiday season, including today's Cyber Monday...
Black Friday's business has left Davidowitz bearish on retailers' prospects this holiday season. "I expect total holiday sales will be down 1% to 2% - going against last year, which was the worst Christmas in 40 years."
I was made redundant and now live on benefits as a result of the credit crunch brought about by our banking fraternity. Like many, I felt disappointed that, after being rescued with billions in taxpayers' money, they were still trying to give each other annual million-dollar bonuses. But then...
Read: "Nicaragua: Where Every Day is Christmas."
We are all puritans now. over the past two years, Americans have largely stopped spending more money than we had and running up credit-card tabs we couldn't pay off. To a great extent, we've been hectored into behaving more like our parsimonious Pilgrim forebears, whose expression of...