After months of shouldering increased costs, customers are pulling back.
That's according to small businesses surveyed in May by The Wall Street Journal. Some say that sales have decreased over the past few weeks--and the majority aren't optimistic about things getting better anytime soon. More than half (56 percent) of the 600 small businesses surveyed say that they expect economic conditions to worsen over the next year--up from 42 percent in April. READ MORE