As the nation's retailers look ahead to bagging profit in the final weeks of the year, Jacques Stambouli is looking forward to people marching back to the malls with ill-fitting clothes, duplicate DVDs and unfashionable watches.
If Melissa Adelman's hunch is right, this will be the last January apparel retailers will have to brace for the swarm of customers looking to return or exchange all the ill-fitting clothes they got for Christmas.