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Tue 01 Jan 2010Our shopping habits 'never to recover from guilt over boom'
IRISH CONSUMERS will never recover from the guilt they feel about their consumption during the boom years, a retailing conference was told yesterday.
Just as consumers who lived during the Great Depression were destined forever after to be frugal, Irish shoppers will always seek value now that the boom is over, David McGee, retail director of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), said.
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