2011 The Consumption Of Clothing And Articles In The Us Back To School Shopping Season Is Reduced By About 1%.
Consumers do not buy clothing at a higher price. The economy is slowing down and consumers are buying electronic products.
Buying power
The strength of this year's return to school shopping may be almost the same as that of last year.
The NRF announced that the average family plan to spend 12 dollars on clothing and supplies was $604, compared with $606 in the same period last year.
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Less than 1%.
NRF conducted the survey in from July 1st to 6th for 8684 consumers.
Economic growth slowed down and unemployment rate reached 9.2%, dragging down the spending power of returning to school shopping, which is the second largest consumption season for retailers after the year-end shopping boom.
NRF said that about 44% of respondents said that economic factors forced them to cut costs.
NRF President Matthew Shay said, "families do not resist buying necessities, but parents want children to think carefully about what they need to return to school this year.
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The report points out that as the number of students increases, the consumption of all students (including universities) will rise from US $55 billion 100 million to US $68 billion 800 million.
College Students' consumption may be reduced by 3.2%, and the average consumption of each student will be reduced to $808.71.
Michael Niemira, chief economist at the ICSC, said that because of the fact that discount merchandise attracted consumers, sales of many US retailers exceeded analysts' expectations in June, but stores will receive higher returns for returning products.
Cost
For example, clothing and so on, due to rising fuel and commodity prices.
Over the past year, US crude oil prices have risen by 27%, giving retailers more expensive production and pportation costs.
Cotton prices have risen 38%, and in March it has hit a higher level, thus pushing up the cost of clothes.
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