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shopping. because you have mall sales up. >> those were up in july. here's the reason. the clearance sales going on on the spring merchandise, the summer merchandise, very good deals. consumers still do love a bargain, despite the fact that sentiment is down. it's at the lowest level it's been in something like over two years, at least it was in july. we did go to the malls in part because of deals and because july was a very, very hot month. one of the hottest julys we've seen any 50 years. didn't go to the beach. didn't stay in our apartments. didn we went to a mall and shopped. >> we talk about back to school sales. what's the outlook for that? >> i think sales will probably come in flat at best. consumers are up against a number of headwinds. the anxiety level has increased. consumers were feeling optimistic at the beginning of the year and spending more freely. now i think we'll go back into retreat mode a little bit. a little more cautious given all
>> o-t-t-e-r. please hurry. i can't keep him off. >> reporter: hitzig says animals are not normally this aggressive. despite suffering from six rabies shots, will gibbons vows no vengeance against his attacker. >> i don't think i'll ever see it again. but if i do, i guess i'll call animal control. >> reporter: which is also the advice of the experts. matt gutman, abc news, miami. the holiday shopping season appears to be off to an encouraging start with americans spending an estimated $45 billion since thursday. 212 million shoppers visited stores over the black friday weekend. that's up nearly 9% from the 195 million who shopped this time last year. on black friday itself, mall sales were up a slight .3%. today, of course, is cyber monday. online sales are expected to attract a record 107 million shoppers. "consumer reports" predicts 17% of all americans are ready to