Discount chains emerge as holiday winners while clothing suffers

... such as mobile-phone bills, hurting clothing sales, said Craig Johnson, president of Customer Growth Partners, a New Canaan, Conn.-based consulting firm. In 2000, spending on clothing accounted for 5 percent of a typical U.S. household's budget, ...



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