Recession Weight Loss
With the high prices of gas and food prices and other normal expenses, new and creative ways of saving money always pops up. One major cutback is in food expenses. Either cutting back on going out to eat or just buying the less expensive version of the normal brands they get, Americans are finding themselves actually “dieting” in some sense.
Though seemingly small, the daily trade-offs they are making — more pasta and less red meat, more video rentals and fewer movie tickets — amount to an important shift in consumer behavior.
By cutting down on certain types of food, you can improve yourself both in body and financially without you really knowing.
Burt Flickinger, a longtime retail consultant, said the last time he saw such significant changes in consumer buying patterns was the late 1970s, when runaway inflation prompted Americans to “switch from red meat to pork to poultry to pasta — then to peanut butter and jelly.”
Source: NYTimes
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