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...Outcalt & Johnson Retail Strategists, puts it simply: "There's strong evidence now that the gloom and doom is dead. It just got boring." In New York City, Nancy Few-Smith, a former vice president of New York Telephone who describes herself as a part-time travel agent and "professional shopper," declares, "I'm fed up with the recession." In the past few years, she says, "I had the money but I didn't spend it. But now, if we can afford something...
Union Square may not call to the compulsive shopper or the museum fanatic or the all-night nightlifer. It calls, rather, to an exclusive audience, the people weary of high school rebels and jugglers and academics. It calls to those in search of the real...
...everyone is looking forward to turkey,though. A shopper at Star Market, who did not wantto be identified, said, "We do not eat turkeybecause we are vegetarian, but Thanksgiving isstill a big deal to us. We have a wide variety ofvegetarian dishes and pies instead...
...notice that the same old overpriced travel agency, the same old contraceptive dispensary and the same dusty books on the $1 rack at Harvard University Press are now part of The Shops at Harvard Yard. The renovation project has made the Holyoke Arcade less alienating to the shopper and the suburban daytripper, and infinitely more alienating to the countercultural mindtripper...
Which, in the end, means less business for the boutiques and chain stores. People can find trendy shops in the suburbs now, and the last visitors to Harvard Square, the rich, yuppie shopper who started this whole decline, will stay home, leaving the Square empty...