U.S. jewelry and watch sales showed solid gains in November 2009 versus the same month a year ago. November is the first month of the all-important holiday selling season. American consumers, who have grown tired of the depressing talk related to the recession, invoked the old adage, “When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping” and went to the malls. Merchants reported that customer traffic was up and sales improved, though the average jewelry ticket was down by about 10 percent or so.
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