KenC

Rate of Consumer Spending Decline Stabilizes - Overall Outlook Remains Grim

Uhm, someone tell those people still shopping at Linens n Things that it's gonna be closed forever in less than a week.

Just look at your first chart, I mean without October, you might have seen the leveling off in November, right? What if October said 58% expect to spend less? You could have totally missed it, but we'll never know since you either didn't do a monthly survey, or are choosing to ignore showing it.

Paul, trying getting with the new Millenium and use a modern charting app. The 80s are calling back for their copy of MS Excel.

Amazing how such a HUGE change in consumer sentiment, results in only a tiny percentage change in actual spending.

Rate of Consumer Spending Decline Stabilizes - Overall Outlook Remains Grim

These surveys by Changewave will always be suspect as long as the charts are misleading by using an X-axis that is not consistent from one date to the next. How can one do any trend analysis when surveys are sometimes one month apart and then 3 months apart. It's nonsense.

Rate of Consumer Spending Decline Stabilizes - Overall Outlook Remains Grim

These surveys by Changewave will always be suspect as long as the charts are misleading by using an X-axis that is not consistent from one date to the next. How can one do any trend analysis when surveys are sometimes one month apart and then 3 months apart. It's nonsense.