"In particular, lower- and middle-income households are shopping cautiously, as they work to stay within tight, very tight, household budgets, which have seen additional pressure from this year's payroll tax increase".
With high unemployment and an uncertain future, people have been shopping cautiously — suggesting that maybe, just maybe there is some foundation to all of the talk about a change in the consumer mind-set.
They shop more cautiously.
"People are shopping very cautiously and less frequently, avoiding impulse buys, which are what magazine purchases are".
Marc Marshall, 24, at Shop Rugby opposite Cardiff Castle, is cautiously optimistic because the store usually pulls in lots of tourists, but he admitted the road closures were a potential headache.
After a strong start, many retailers have turned cautiously optimistic about the holiday shopping season.
According to Mr. Payne, eBay is "cautiously optimistic" about the coming Christmas shopping season, although, he added, "the hill is yet to be climbed".
After the slowest holiday shopping season in a decade, Americans seem to have cautiously reopened their wallets early in 2001, spending more than executives or analysts had predicted.
After the slowest holiday shopping season in a decade, Americans seem to have cautiously reopened their wallets in the early weeks of 2001, spending more than either executives or analysts had predicted.
He then cautiously knocked down the notion that Ewing was being shopped and would soon be part of a multiplayer deal.
Murdock, working slowly and cautiously, managed to hide five small pieces of wood in the shop where he worked.
