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joining us in studio, kristin bentz, executive director of pmg venture group.middle class, how so? >> if you see how the performance has played out and use that as virtual proxy for the middle class, jcpenney, target and wal-mart. we saw the internal e-mail from wal-mart. where does all the money go about the february sales. target announced they had negative traffic, the first time they have had negative traffic since 2009 and jcpenney is jcpenney. we have this market, high-end consumers are doing well, feeling good, dying. the low-end consumers are also thriving. dollar stores, tj maxx, but anybody in the middle is kind of out. tracy: if you dig into the numbers, one of the things was gas. eating and drinking, all down. meaning restaurants. >> if you look behind the numbers, that really tells the story the consumer is pulling back. it is not that rosie for a very long segment of the country. tracy: hurricane sandy rebuilding held a little bit? >> vehicles had to be replaced, so that did help and obviously gasoline is gasoline, the more cost to buy, the more o