The Great Recession has created a newly frugal consumer willing to forsake the luxury of eating out in order to pay the bills.

大萧条催生出了一批节俭的消费者，他们为了支付各种账单而放弃了外出吃大餐的奢侈。

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Retailers are hedging their performance on an ever more frugal consumer.

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To determine where Americans are most frugal, we turned to Atlanta-based Equifax, one of the three largest consumer credit reporting agencies in the country.

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