Fewer travelers are renting luggage carts at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and other airports nationwide, but enough travelers rent them that Phoenix officials want to hire a cart contractor.
Sky Harbor cart rentals fell 28 percent, from 216,444 rentals in 2008 to 156,487 rentals in 2009.I suppose that, like airport shoe-shines, luggage-cart use could be used as a barometer of the economy and consumer confidence.
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This is shocking, just shocking! I was in Phoenix last September and noticed the same thing, that luggage carts at PHX were just sitting around. I remember thinking, "Oh boy, there goes the local economy. If only Obama would DO something about this."
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