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12:44 November 29th, 2008

Recession Sells: Brooklyn style

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Posted by: Michele Gershberg
Tags: Shop Talk, , ,

Every city has it’s way of dealing with recession. In Brooklyn, where “going out of business” sales may seem like a marketing tactic employed in good and bad times, it looks like shops are dead serious now. And they are getting more creative. We liked the VIP gift bag and the one-year deferred financing, photos via our own Martinne Geller:

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December 1st, 2008
7:32 pm GMT

I think we were officially in a recession right about the time that people started wearing clothes made from their pets’ fur: http://tinyurl.com/59sfnn

- Posted by Stephanie

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