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Shoppers Expect to Spend Less This Holiday Gift Giving Season

Wed, Nov 23, 2011

Holiday shoppers are keeping their pursestrings tied tightly this year; almost 60 percent of people expect to spend less than they did in 2010.

Wallets are staying in people's pockets this holiday season.

That's the sentiment expressed in a recent poll on Radio Free Hamilton. The unscientific online poll found found that 91 percent of people will be spending less or the same money as last year on holiday gift shopping.

Results of the poll show:

  • 59 percent of people expect to spend less this year than in 2010;
  • 32 percent expect to spend the same as they did last year;
  • 9 percent say they will spend more than a year ago.

Our new poll asks folks how much of their shopping they expect to do locally.

 

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