AAA Missouri Poll: High Gas Prices, Economy Affect Holiday Shopping Budgets and Behaviors
Personal Finance, Picture Gallery Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
ST. LOUIS, MO — (Marketwire) — 11/02/11 — High gas prices are weighing on many local consumers- minds as they plan their holiday shopping lists, according to AAA Missouri-s Third Annual Holiday Shopping Poll.Sixty-four percent of those surveyed said that high gas prices are currently having a significant effect on their household budget — lower than the 78 percent in May of this year who said gas prices were impacting their budgets. At that time, Missouri gas prices were averaging more than
