1.   As unemployment rises, worried consumers will save even more and spend even less.

2.   A combination of too many stores, worried consumers, bad weather and an absence of must-have fashions kept sales down.

3.   For the economy to really take off, worried consumers have to take up the slack by spending more.

4.   Some economists argue that Japan is now in a liquidity trap, in which worried consumers hoard rather than spend any increase in the money supply.

5.   Too many stores, worried consumers, bad weather and an absence of must-have fashions had retailers cutting prices to no avail.

6.   Worried consumers are desperately trying to obtain Cipro, until last week the only drug specifically approved for inhaled anthrax, the deadliest kind.

7.   Worried Japanese consumers are reluctant to spend, making things worse.

8.   At the bottom of the page there is a hotline number that worried consumers can call for more information.

9.   Coca-Cola France set up an emergency hotline for worried consumers.

10.   Germany in particular is wary about letting British beef back onto its markets, fearing a backlash from worried consumers.