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Impulse buying gives way to US frugality

By Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York

Published: November 4 2009 22:30 | Last updated: November 4 2009 22:30

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Selective shoppers: Americans’ taste for ‘instant gratification’ has been supplanted by new spending habits, data show

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