{"id":335,"date":"2009-08-17T10:07:57","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T15:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=335"},"modified":"2020-05-20T09:50:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T08:50:11","slug":"shoppers-hope-sales-rise-in-august-with-school-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/shoppers-hope-sales-rise-in-august-with-school-shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoppers hope sales rise in August with school shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/school-shopping.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-337\" title=\"Shoppers hope sales rise in August with school shopping\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/school-shopping-280x220.jpg\" alt=\"Shoppers hope sales rise in August with school shopping\" width=\"280\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>Consumers may have been too preoccupied with &#8220;cash for clunkers&#8221; and their own job prospects to get too serious about back-to-school shopping in July<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. chain store sales fell 5 percent last month, the 12th consecutive monthly decline, the International Council of Shopping Centers reported Thursday. A year ago, consumers armed with stimulus checks had helped produce a 1.3 percent increase.<\/p>\n<p>Still, retail stocks were mostly up Thursday as several chains displayed cost controls, leaner inventories and more evidence that they&#8217;re toughing out the recession.<\/p>\n<p>Sales were generally down but better than expected in some cases, and inconclusive about whether shoppers will spend freely or frugally in the months ahead.<br \/>\nRetailers look to back-to-school \u2013 the industry&#8217;s second-biggest sales period \u2013 for clues about their biggest season: Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shoppers are not yet ready to spend freely,&#8221; said Frank Badillo, senior economist at Retail Forward. &#8220;But the results reported by retailers provide some signs that shoppers are easing up on their cutbacks. And that&#8217;s especially encouraging given the variety of factors weighing on retail sales in July.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Retail Forward&#8217;s monthly ShopperScape survey is showing a gradual trend of fewer shoppers saying they plan to spend less, 47 percent in July vs. 55 percent in January.<\/p>\n<p>Concerns about job security, personal income, shifts of many states&#8217; annual sales-tax holidays from July into August and a potential drain of discretionary dollars from cash for clunkers contributed to another difficult month for U.S. retailers, said Ken Perkins, an analyst at RetailMetrics Inc.<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consumers may have been too preoccupied with &#8220;cash for clunkers&#8221; and their own job prospects to get too serious about back-to-school shopping in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shopping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8538,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/8538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}