{"id":1273,"date":"2009-08-28T19:17:24","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T02:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2009-08-28T19:17:24","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T02:17:24","slug":"making-money-off-of-cheapskates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/08\/28\/making-money-off-of-cheapskates\/","title":{"rendered":"Making money off of cheapskates."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now would be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/29\/business\/economy\/29consumer.html?partner=rss&#038;emc=rss\">a good time<\/a> for businesses that &#8220;sell&#8221; to frugality:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sales of vegetable plants swelled fivefold in March over past years. The company added a public address system and bleachers to accommodate hordes showing up for vegetable-growing classes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, many people are experiencing <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/news\/storysupplement\/economy\/gapmap\/index.htm\">very significant<\/a> losses. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2009\/07\/gdp_recession_economy_commerce.html\">GDP shrank<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>But, consumer spending is not entirely rational. Business that allow consumers to spend their money on &#8220;frugality&#8221; \u2013\u00a0i.e., that resonate with a new alignment of values \u2013\u00a0could very well thrive in the coming years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now would be a good time for businesses that &#8220;sell&#8221; to frugality: Sales of vegetable plants swelled fivefold in March over past years. The company added a public address system and bleachers to accommodate hordes showing up for vegetable-growing classes. Yes, many people are experiencing very significant losses. The GDP shrank. But, consumer spending is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}