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It's not the greatest macro environment to be going into. The psyche of the consumer has taken a beating the last couple of months,
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Consumers really felt the pinch of higher gas prices and job growth is stagnant.
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The numbers look pretty good so far. We are seeing more surprises to the upside and this is a nice reversal of the trend that we had expected last month. Even among those retailers who missed our forecast, not many of them blamed gas prices for it.
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Economic conditions have improved significantly from March last year when commerce was impeded for much of the month by the run up to the Iraq war. People do appear to be shopping more.
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Everybody is waiting to see whether they can carry the momentum they've built this year into next year despite the tough holiday period.
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It was a complete egg that was laid there. By all accounts, they got killed in apparel.
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These numbers are not good. As one analyst put it, October will be the nightmare before Christmas.
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That's a pretty long stretch, and investors are concerned that earnings could take a hit unless sales improve.
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The consumer has not run out of gas yet, provided the job market continues to remain fairly decent.
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