{"id":4594,"date":"2009-10-29T15:19:44","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T23:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/?p=4594"},"modified":"2010-05-10T00:43:07","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T08:43:07","slug":"retailers-expecting-holiday-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/style\/retailers-expecting-holiday-slump","title":{"rendered":"Retailers Expecting Holiday Slump"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"holiday\"Recent polls have suggested a steep decline in holiday shopping this year, with 45% of consumers estimating they will spend less in the retail market. The season isn’t expected to be a total washout, with 80% still planning on purchasing gifts.<\/p>\n

While we got some amazing deals at last year’s sales, the deep discounts are a double edged sword. Retailers offer more sales and discounts to stimulate sales, shoppers wait to purchase in hopes of further discounts. And while 70% off is too good to ignore, for the general health of the industry we’ll try to lower discount expectations this year. Interesting to watch will be sites like Gilt<\/a>, Rue La La<\/a> and Hautelook<\/a>, who already offer discounts up to 50% off on designer items every day. Will they take the bargain hunting dollars that department stores and brands are afraid to court?<\/p>\n

Where will you be doing your holiday shopping?<\/p>\n

Read More <\/a>{Stylelist}<\/p>\n

Read More <\/a>{Market Watch}<\/p>\n

Read More<\/a> {NY Times}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recent polls have suggested a steep decline in holiday shopping this year, with 45% of consumers estimating they will spend less in the retail market. The season isn’t expected to be a total washout, with 80% still planning on purchasing gifts. While we got some amazing deals at last year’s sales, the deep discounts are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6839],"tags":[839,837,838,582,836,840,45,835],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11437,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594\/revisions\/11437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}