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Article: Blending fresh new styles.
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- Casual Living
- Article date:
- June 1, 2009
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Cinde W. Ingram
The current casual season opened in the midst of drastically different retail buying patterns, changing consumer confidence, tightening credit and other economic factors that added to business challenges across the board. Trade shows so far in 2009 have followed the same lean pattern of generally slow traffic. The fewer numbers of buyers are more selective, reflecting the caution they see in consumers.
Despite the challenging economic environment, national surveys continue to show consumers are spending and planning to spend more on their casual living areas and outdoor entertainment products. Higher income consumers are evaluating ...