Signs point to yes. Plus: We check in with small business owners about the holiday shopping season, and homeownership as a single person is tricky in this economy.
Dylan Demery, owner of She's Fly, a women's fly-fishing outfitter in Fort Collins, Colorado, talks about how she's prepared her business for the holiday shopping season.
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Annemarie Conte at Wirecutter bought a 450-pound mystery pallet of returned Amazon goods. Inside, she found a lot of polyester and a lot of info about why consumers return.