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growth remains fairly weak ahead of what is expected to be a disappointing holiday season. Consumption had been a key growth driver for the US over the last year but began to falter a bit during the September quarter. October retail sales were around 0.5 per cent higher than the September quarter average.s to help fund the giveaway program, which will employ veterans from the group Green Vets LA to sew the bags and Homeboy Industries, an organization Gucci walletthat helps at-risk or gang-involved youth, to do the silkscreening. Environmental groups will distribute the bags. The city also made a pledge to give out 100,000 free reusable bags in each of the 15 City Council districts.

 The council approved the ban earlier this year. In June, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa signed the ban into law, making Los Angeles the most populous city in the nation to ban single-use plastic bags. The law is similar to one adopted by though. First, was Gareth Williams inclined to, for whatever reason, lock himself into a bag in the bathtub? And second, is it possible to do that? Could he have done that alone? WEST: Yes. I think you have to understand that the circumstances where somebody has been practicing this for a long period, then it is perfectly possible, as was demonstrated, for somebody to climb into the duffel bag, to close the zips. That's not the difficult part. The tricky part is to have the hasp of the padlock over the handles and then to use the fabric of the bag like a glove, if you like, to close the padlock. SIEGEL: Well, you've spent a lifetime ferreting out fact fro

 To add a little bit of perspective, for retail spending in the December quarter to match growth in the September quarter – which resulted in the slowest pace of consumption growth in two years – growth in retail sales will have to be around 0.6 per cent in both November and December. Not impossible by any stretch but a fair pick-up from what we have seen over the Gucci tote bag past four months. On that basis, the outlook for consumption growth in the December quarter would have to be fairly modest, which points to slow real GDP growth for the quarter as well. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) also reports that real average weekly earnings rose by 1.5 per cent over the year. The data highlights why consumption growth remains fairly modest. The increase over the year mostly reflects higher average hourly