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Two women walk past businesses that cater to high-end luxury item consumers along Rodeo Drive on December 14, 2007 in Beverly Hills, California. In the midst of the biggest selling season of the year, retailers for America's richest consumers are losing their least-affluent customers, those who buy luxury items only when they have the cash to spend, while the richest continue buying designer merchandise at a healthy clip. Masking the extent of the decline could be the weakened US dollar which has increased the flow of foreign tourists shopping in major US cities. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
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