The national shopping ritual known as Black Friday, which TWI wrote about today, has been marked by tragedy. A Wal-Mart employee in a Long Island, N.Y., store died after shoppers knocked down the doors to the entrance and stormed in to search for bargains, Bloomberg says.
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It looks like Wal-Mart is being forced to scale back expansion due to the struggling economy. That means it’s also being forced to scale back its help in perpetuating the absurd amount of suburban sprawl that the superstore has relied on since its birth. But not by all that More…
The Starbucks Latte Index often gets cited as an indicator of whether consumers are cutting back on discretionary spending – if they give up expensive coffee drinks, the thinking goes, they’re serious about saving money.
But if you really want to know what’s going on with consumer spending on More…
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