Japanese consumers search for ways to reduce costs & new sharing services offer new insights into stretching household budgets further

"More than 30,000 members have been registered with ShareMo, a Web site on which members can lend and borrow clothes, video game software, English textbooks and baby goods among other items."



Source:Consumers batten down the hatches in stormy economic seas
Mainichi Japan
January 5, 2010
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/perspectives/news/20100105p2a00m0na007000c.html


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