Guest EurythmicThrust Posted July 31, 2008 Posted July 31, 2008 Attended a very private pre-opening party of this store last week...guys were easily snatching up 500 dollar shirts and jeans, and those 1100 dollar leather messenger bags were also quite popular- I'm still trying to convince my date that nite to give his SECOND messenger bag to me in exchange for...umm... Gas prices ARE dropping, so i guess discretionary income is back! http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...001&sc=1000 Quote
Members TampaYankee Posted July 31, 2008 Members Posted July 31, 2008 EurythmicThrust said: ... so i guess discretionary income is back! Haven't seen any more rolling through my front door. Maybe tommorow? Quote
Guest JamesWilson Posted July 31, 2008 Posted July 31, 2008 EurythmicThrust said: Gas prices ARE dropping, so i guess discretionary income is back! Maybe, but they will probably only last for the run-up to the election. My guess is that Big Oil is trying to take a bit of the pressure off of its candidate. For some interesting info on historical gas prices in the US, check out the following: http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/gasprices/faq.shtml (note especially the "What is the history of gasoline prices in the U.S.?" graphic) http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/d...as_history.html (for downloads of weekly data points) Quote
