Valentine’s Day spending is expected to drop to $28.6 billion this year – down 4.8 percent from 2008, according to IBIS World.Todd Heroman, Billy Haroman’s Flowerland manager, said people are still planning to buy their special someone a gift but at a lower price.”Instead of a dozen roses, with chocolates and a teddy bear attached, it may just be roses,” he said. “They’re still going to send [gifts], it’s just a matter of what they’re going to send.”—-Contact Leslie Presnall at [email protected]
Valentine’s Day spending expected to drop – 1:10 p.m.
February 11, 2009