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Consumers shopped less this holiday season, testing brand loyalty

Posted at 2:52 PM on 27 Dec 2007

Holiday retail sales took a hit this year, even at stores like Starbucks, Coach, and Target that enjoy strong customer loyalty. Expensive gas, dropping home prices, and an uncertain economy -- or a society-wide trend toward reduced consumerism? Hey, we can dream.

source: The New York Times

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Like, Maybe...

...there were just, like, you know, no really really cute 3/4 tees at Abercrombie....

by jabailo at 4:08 PM on 27 Dec 2007

"consumers"

This is, perhaps, a little nit-picky but important item:
<rant>
I resent being called (and what's more, assumed to be) a "consumer". I have no desire to be a consumer, one who consumes (should we say, "devours"). I think this is more than just semantics in the pejorative sense. Someone who uses a good or service need not be a consumer. A customer, yes, would be a better term.

</rant>

by rcphillips at 6:39 AM on 28 Dec 2007

So, RC...

You're saying you don't eat? Or use any other products that involve the use of resources or energy, such as, you know, clothes? I'm kind of curious as to how you typed that post, if you don't own a computer or use electricity.

Of course, if you can survive without food, I suppose psychokinetic use of the Internet isn't too much of a leap...

Just saying.

by Pathos at 11:50 PM on 28 Dec 2007

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