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Article: Shopping is bliss say flush Welshteens; But fears grow youngsters now lack key money skills.(News)
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- Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- August 26, 2003
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Byline: Ceri Jones
WELSH teenagers are shopping mad according to new statistics - but fears are growing that 'shopaholic' youngsters could be tempted into debt.
Teenagers are spending more money than ever on snapping up the latest fashions with many girls shopping twice a week and even previously shop-shy boys going once a week.
Consumer data agency Mintel International says that one in 10 Welsh teenagers now goes clothes shopping at least once a week. More than half of 11 to 19-year-olds like to keep up with the latest fashions, and more than a ...