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Back-to-school shopping zooms ahead

By Robin Melen on August 27, 2010 12:01:00 am

So where are you in your back-to-school shopping schedule? Ahead? Behind? Right where you want to be?

According to the National Retail Federation, the average family in the U.S. is actually ahead of where they were last year. The theory is the hot, hot weather drove people into stores earlier this summer. How about you? And are you finding good sales out there?

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Sarah

02:39:38 PM on Fri Aug 27 2010

Went to Staples last night to pick up some folders and the place was mobbed. You would have thought that a storm was coming and school supplies were water by the way these people were grabbing them.

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