{"id":193818,"date":"2008-11-14T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T02:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/14\/well-this-sucks-10\/"},"modified":"2008-11-14T21:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T02:02:00","slug":"well-this-sucks-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/14\/well-this-sucks-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, This Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"

American Research Group has a survey on 2008 Holiday Shopping<\/a>, and it has the predicting a 50% drop in sales vs 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Year<\/b><\/td>\nAverage Spending<\/b><\/td>\nPercent Change<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008<\/td>\n$431<\/td>\n– 50%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007<\/td>\n$859<\/td>\n– 5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006<\/td>\n$907<\/td>\n– 4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005<\/td>\n$942<\/td>\n– 6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004<\/td>\n$1,004<\/td>\n+ 3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003<\/td>\n$976<\/td>\n– 6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002<\/td>\n$1,037<\/td>\n-1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2001<\/td>\n$1,052<\/td>\n+ 9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000<\/td>\n$968<\/td>\n+ 3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1999<\/td>\n$939<\/td>\n+ 1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1998<\/td>\n$928<\/td>\n+ 34%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Considering the fact that 70% of the US economy is consumer driven, this is mind boggling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

American Research Group has a survey on 2008 Holiday Shopping, and it has the predicting a 50% drop in sales vs 2007. Year Average Spending Percent Change 2008 $431 – 50% 2007 $859 – 5% 2006 $907 – 4% 2005 $942 – 6% 2004 $1,004 + 3% 2003 $976 – 6% 2002 $1,037 -1% 2001 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,1089,1164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-recession","category-teotwawki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}