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Amid the gravest economic and financial crisis in decades, the outlook for Christmas was never very bright. Some 54% of Americans polled by market-research firm TNS Retail Forward said they planned to spend less money on Christmas gifts this month than they did one year ago. The pullback is not just hitting middle market retailers, such as Dillards and Macys, but upscale stores like Saks Fifth Ave and Nordstrom as well. Saks, for example, saw same-stores sales decline 11.5% in the third quarter, followed by a 5.2% decrease in November...
Chernova certainly isn't alone. Spooked by the biggest economic crisis in decades, Americans are making fewer trips to supermarkets, and many are leaving comparatively upscale grocers like Albertsons and Whole Foods in search of lower prices. According to a survey conducted last spring by TNS Retail Forward, a market-research and consulting firm based in Columbus, Ohio, 20% of respondents said they had changed which stores they go to for groceries and other household items, primarily because of the economic climate...
...Obama spend the better part of the summer trying to make this race into a 20- [to] 25-state battleground, but he's reined this in a little bit to 11 or 12 states, and potentially less, closer to Election Day," says Evan Tracey, president of TNS's Media Intelligence Campaign Media Analysis Group, which tracks campaign advertising. "It's all about Ohio, and after that, the other areas are a hedge...
...insufficient. “That exception defies and contravenes the reality on the ground at the college level regarding the beverage of choice and of devastation,” Hacker said. Despite the stated limit, beer companies rank second in advertising expenditures for the NCAA tournament, according to TNS Media Intelligence—a firm that reports advertising data. Though Hacker applauded the presidents’ action, he said he expects a lackluster reaction from the NCAA. “I think they’ll probably take umbrage that we caught them with their pants down...
Sources: AP; Mortgage Asset Research Institute; TIDES; AP; TNS Media Intelligence; BBC; EADS Astrium; Qantas; U.S. Dept. of Labor