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Source within a very well known, long established, and very large Retail chain reports as follows:
Corporate said many banks are pulling all credit and financing options they customarily offered to retail customers which, in the past allowed customers to spread the payments out on the $8000 Finish mowers or top line ATV's they purchased.
They also emphasized this isn't something they're doing just to us, thereby giving our competition an advantage. The entire credit market is being contracted across the retail spectrum.
We've been hearing the credit markets have been drying up. It looking like next week the well will run dry."