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Stores look to week after Christmas for sales

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Bargain-hungry Americans will need to go on a post-Christmas spending binge to salvage this holiday shopping season.

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Bargain-hungry Americans will need to go on a post-Christmas spending binge to salvage this holiday shopping season. Despite the huge discounts and other incentives that stores offered leading up to Christmas, U.S. holiday sales so far this year have been the weakest since 2008, when the nation was in a deep recession. So stores now are depending on the days after Christmas to make up lost ground.