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Coming off a better-than-expected holiday shopping season, retail experts are growing a bit more optimistic about the outlook for 2010, while consumers are expected to be, um, cheap. "We see a highly frugal consumer being thoughtful and cautious in the way they spend and the way they incur...
A chilling frugality may remain in the air, but buds of optimism for retailers are sprouting nonetheless. The National Retail Federation (NRF), in its 2010 outlook released Tuesday, Jan. 26, expects retail sales to rise 2.5% on average in 2010, reversing the 2.5% decline seen in 2009. "As we continue...
It could surely use them. Even as Apple succeeds with a streak of hot hardware - the iPod, iPhone and iMac - the company's consumer software has failed to keep pace with the evolution of cloud computing. Both iWeb and iPhoto have lagged behind competitors' photo- and Web-editing tools: iWeb...
In fact, the continued existence of skinny jeans in the closet of the American male consumer is one of the biggest issues plaguing society today. Unfortunately, the anthropologists have yet to come up with an explanation for this phenomenon, and there is currently no “Social Analysisâ?...
Despite the billions the government spent on consumer-spending incentives to stimulate industrial output - like implementing cash-for-clunkers subsidies for new car buyers - the schemes didn't lead to massive growth in manufacturing. Industrial production and service-sector activities fared no better than the overall 0.1% growth figure for...