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Article: Last holiday shopping weekend keeps retailers edgy
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- December 22, 2008
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The deals were there and, by most accounts, so were the shoppers. But at the close of the final holiday shopping weekend, consumers confessed they were still nervous about buying.
"This is going to be a poor Christmas," said Dee Dobbins, a 31-year-old from Goldsboro, N.C., who finished her holiday shopping with money she'd received from her recent graduation from North Carolina State University. "At least I had it, because I don't know what I would have done."
From flagship department stores to main street shops, consumers found packed parking lots, massive markdowns and extended hours _ in some places, around-the-clock shopping _ as merchants hope to ...