Comments about ‘Penny-pinching gizmos getting grip on consumer market share’

Consumer sense, that's the trend. What's even more encourageing, consumers are thinking buy American. They know american made products are better and keep americans employed. The life cycle of a product or gandget is gaining a following too, what good are these gadgets if they don't work or break when trying to use them?

Consumers are going retro too, buying products and small appliances of the 60's and 70's that still work and function better than new products. Which are american made products by the way. This is an area retailers have overlooked in consumer spending.
Consumers have discovered that Made in China means wasting money on things that usually don't last or stay assembled beyond a single use.

This article makes it sound like being frugal an unamerican choice. That is our history as americans and why we can be independent and not government wards. Unlike illegal aliens who think being american means being a leech and beggar and thief.

As it has been said before, nothing like trying to make a dollar out of .15 cents. Now, that is s-tr-e--ch-i-n-g it!

Those days are gone away when a gallon of gas in the 1960 was a half a tank full..Milk was so low in price!