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Hamptons businesses hope for August spending surge
Photo credit: Newsday File Photo / Danielle Finkelstein | Friends shop for dresses at Diane Von Furstenberg's store in Southampton.
The June gloom has faded. The July jinx is over. Now the owners of stores, hotels and restaurants across the Hamptons are hoping an August spending surge will salvage the summer.
At the Piano Barn in East Hampton, owner Mike Scainetti says sales and rentals of his $10,000-to-$50,000 pianos are down 40 percent this summer. Customers are demanding such steep discounts that Scainetti says he...
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