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For retailers, snow would pile on (snow storm to kill Christmas sales?)
For retailers, snow would pile on By Ylan Q. Mui Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, December 19, 2009; A11 Retailers can stop accusing the economy of holding back holiday sales. Now they can blame it on the weather. The mighty blizzard expected to descend on the Northeast today comes on the last Saturday before Christmas, typically the busiest day of the year for retailers. But with as much as a foot of snow forecast from North Carolina to New Jersey, retailers are worried that their customers will spend the Super Saturday shoveling rather than shopping. One meteorologist predicts that could...
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