{"id":2690,"date":"2009-08-06T09:32:38","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T13:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=2690"},"modified":"2009-08-06T09:33:41","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T13:33:41","slug":"look-ahead-to-holiday-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/08\/06\/look-ahead-to-holiday-shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking ahead to holiday shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the <a title=\"July numbers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/07\/business\/economy\/07shop.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\">July numbers <\/a>showing sluggish sales, retailers already are looking toward this winter&#8217;s holiday sales with expectations of <a title=\"weak consumer demand\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/industries\/retail\/2009-08-02-holiday-shopping_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">weak consumer demand<\/a> to continue.\u00a0 School of Management marketing Professor <a title=\"Shuba Srinivasan\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/SrinivasanShuba.html\" target=\"_blank\">Shuba Srinivasan <\/a>says the back-to-school shopping period will be a leading indicator of the holiday season to come.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Frugality among consumers and deep discounting by retailers can be expected to continue.\u00a0 But early indications look quite positive for holiday shopping in consumer technology products, more so in online shopping environments.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Shuba Srinivasan, 617-353-5978, <a href=\"mailto:ssrini@bu.edu\">ssrini@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the July numbers showing sluggish sales, retailers already are looking toward this winter&#8217;s holiday sales with expectations of weak consumer demand to continue.\u00a0 School of Management marketing Professor Shuba Srinivasan says the back-to-school shopping period will be a leading indicator of the holiday season to come. &#8220;Frugality among consumers and deep discounting by retailers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1562,138,1561],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2690"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2695,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690\/revisions\/2695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}