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Retailers hang hopes on last-minute shoppers

Originally published: December 23, 2012 5:27 PM
Updated: December 23, 2012 9:00 PM
By KEN SCHACHTER  kenneth.schachter@cablevision.com

Last-minute Christmas shoppers crowd the Cross County Mall

Photo credit: Lili Holzer-Glier | Last-minute Christmas shoppers crowd the Cross County Mall in Yonkers. (Dec. 22, 2012)

Last-minute shoppers in the Hudson Valley and around the country swarmed to stores Sunday as Christmas approached in what analysts described as a "nail-biter" for retailers hoping to beat last year's sales figures.

C. Britt Beemer, chairman and chief executive of America's Research Group, based in Charleston, S.C., said consumers' determination to get a bargain and an overhang of last-minute...

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