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...There's just one jury still out - the consumers. The stalwart American shopper led the economy (and particularly GM) back from the Sept. 11 depths by coming out for all the post-terrorism sales and buying zero-interest cars by the truckload, and then kept it going relatively strong throughout the winter. Now it's spring, time for businesses who spent all winter burning off inventories - a record $120 billion in the fourth quarter alone - to make new stuff for consumers...
...certainly appreciate the gesture. As a special for Valentine’s Day Belle de Jour also offers a great selection of red and pink items, including see-through panties for around $50. Although these items may seem a bit pricey, with Dominique on hand, even the most conservative shopper may have trouble saying...
Choice is good. We Americans consider it a measure of our freedom and a source of our innovation and prosperity. Riches flow to the person who builds a better mousetrap--or computer mouse. Yet a grocery shopper blankly staring at hundreds of varieties of toothpaste might reasonably conclude that there can be too much of a good thing. Mark Lepper, a psychology professor at Stanford, and Sheena Iyengar, an associate professor of management at Columbia, illustrated this point with a simple study. In a grocery store, they set up tasting booths that offered either six or 24 types...
Analysts agree that terrorism fears following the Sept. 11 attacks probably encouraged online shopping in the final months of 2001. But for Bob Chesner, 61, an insurance executive from West Hartford, Conn., and first-time online shopper, the motivation was simply to try something everybody else was doing. It was "fear that I'd screw it all up" that kept him off-line before, he says, but his first time was a revelation. "Once you overcome the fear, it's easy." Now retailers just have to keep it that...
...savvy shopper could pick up that $34,000 ring at E.B. Horn without worrying about that pesky little $1,700 retail tax; a penny-pinching mom could buy a $25 Tickle-Me-Elmo and put away that $1.25 savings for a rainy...