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"Valentine's Day is more of a discretionary occasion than Christmas and birthdays, which means it will be hit particularly hard by the current economic climate," IBISWorld senior analyst George Van Horn explained in a news release. "Tightening household budgets will make it difficult to justify splurging on loved ones this year." The National Retail Council of Canada doesn't have Valentine predictions for 2009, but when comparing previous years,. Nowadays, Breitling watches have become a trend in fashion circles. They are so popular that everyone is longing for one to add things don't look too good for Cupid.. Fashion accessories are decorative items that supplement one's garment, such as fashion jewellery,gold jewellery,women's jewellery.You can wholesale jewellery. Canadians spent $92.30 on Valentine's Day in 2007, down just a few cents from the year before. But 2 per cent fewer Canadian planned to send cards that year, 18 per cent fewer planned to send flowers and 11 per cent fewer planned a romantic meal out. And those who did planned to spend an average of $64 – down nearly $3 from 2006.And this was a full year before the markets tanked.Christopher Lailey is the director of operations for Canada Flowers, an online florist service based in Niagara Falls, Ont. Last Valentine's Day was his busiest one ever and while he's anticipating it to be just as busy this year, he admits his company's growth is slowing."When it comes to planning Valentine's Day, we have one basket that's high price and two that are on the discount end. What we found at Christmas [was] that our high end stuff that sold for $200 sold out, no problem. It seems to me that people with enough disposable income are still in a position to get what they want. "
Nevertheless, he says he's offering a lot more sales than he used to and recently emailed 40,000 customers offering Valentine discounts."I think there's a lot of guys out there who are feeling the pressure: if they don't give those dozen roses, then they haven't quite done it right," Lailey said. "But we try to have alternatives. We have a dozen red carnations for half the price of roses."