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As I look around and watch consumers shop, I have noticed that generally they are doing so less. When they do shop, they have been using their credit cards less and using their cash and debit cards more. If anything, this goes against the trend line of people paying more and more by credit as we have seen over the last several years.
Perhaps that is the point - people are cutting back not only on when they spend but how they spend.See the full content of this document
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Consumers Cutting Back On Credit
According to the Nilson Report of this past April, Americans' credit card debt reached $972.73 billion at the end of 2008, up 1.12 percent from 2007. The same report estimated the average credit card debt per household was $8,329 at the end of 2008. Get...
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