People are not going to go on buying binges. People are deep in debt and deep in hock,
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If you stash money away in a savings account, then there's less available to buy things in a store, from candy to cars, ... This is not quite the conventional retrenchment we've known from past recessions, but it may represent a kind of wishy-washy stagnation.Kurt Barnard
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Whatever strengths fashion apparel did show came from deep markdowns.
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The key for them is the marketing of a new and totally different identity from Wal-Mart or Target or anybody else, ... They have to create their own distinctive identity. The kind that will make you and me wake up in the morning and say, 'I need a new pair of pajamas -- I think I'll go to Kmart.'
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Based on what we've heard and seen so far, the fashion apparel stores and department stores are going to be hit with lower profits.
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