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Thursday, August 7, 2008

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Better wear those clothes into the fall

A Wal-Mart store in in Oakland, Calif.

The retail numbers are out and it's not a promising kick-off for the back-to-school shopping season -- or our wardrobes. Nancy Marshall Genzer reports a lot of stimulus money went to food and gas, but not to our threads.

A Wal-Mart store in in Oakland, Calif. (Justin Sullivan, Getty Images)

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