I have hope. I have hope that people will smile again. I see them smiling already. I have hope that the small, non-expensive kindnesses being offered by merchants are being remembered and will be repaid with customers who swarm back to them when their wallets are full again. And I have hope that the fear that we all feel is going to go away soon.
Some may call these sentiments a pipe dream. I prefer to think of them as hopeful. Based on the small glimmer I am now seeing at the end of a very long tunnel.
Like bears coming out of hibernation, for the first time in a very long time, shopping malls are filled with people. Yes, many are stretching their legs, buying cups of coffee not bags of clothes, but customers are venturing out. We're all putting our proverbial toes in the water. If you need data to validate this cautious emergence of consumerism, some new data is indicating dare I say it, that there is some hope out there that has been measured...
The march consumer confidence index indicates that confidence was relatively unchanged in March. Hopeful, right? I say yes...we're holding our own. We want to feel confident.
And Gallup's Consumer Mood Index showed that consumers' moods improved another ten points the week of March 23-29 from the week prior, March 16-22, which showed the greatest increase since September of 2008.
Is it just me, or do you see people crawling out from under their rocks? Am I a hopeful fool? Or do you see what I (think) I am seeing? Talk to me.
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