Word: needfully
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...retailers are very hungry. Their customers, faced with a slumping stock market, rising energy prices and a crushing debt load, aren't the free spenders who fueled booming holiday seasons past. Psyched out, tapped out and even shopped out--How many cell phones and cashmere scarves do you really need?--they are making this holiday, as a Los Angeles boutique owner puts it, "ho ho hum." "Some CEOs haven't seen it this bad since 1990-91," says Peter Schaeffer, a partner at Ernst & Young...
...increasingly for services--such as trips, parties or a day at the spa--not for old-fashioned goods. "Shopping as bingeing is over now," says Kurt Barnard of Barnard's Retail Trend Report. "Consumers won't buy frivolously or on a whim. They'll buy what they need...
...have enough family time as it is. On those rare occasions when we sit down together to watch Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, we need everyone huddled around the same electronic hearth, not slotted into lonely outposts upstairs, watching God knows what...
...olds and one-third of 2-to-7-year-olds already have TVs in their bedroom, as the Kaiser Family Foundation reported last year. We just assume their parents have tuned out all the research suggesting that children and television shouldn't be left alone together. Or maybe they need a spot for the 19-in. set displaced by that new home-theater system. Whatever the rationale, we're not buying it. Our three have-nots will have to make do with the Panasonic...
...irony of slowdowns is that they're caused, or at least deepened, by people doing smart things--tearing up credit cards, limiting purchases to stuff they really need. But when practiced in bulk, such level-headed frugality can shut down the economy. Friends, that's a risk you'll just have to accept. Let others prop up the economy if they can; you take steps to survive. Here...