Back-to-School Shopping Heats Up

* The majority of shoppers (45.2 percent) plan to begin their shopping three weeks to a month before school starts; 32 percent will begin one to two weeks prior; 14.6 percent begin at least two months before school starts; and 5.4 percent said they’d wait until the week before school begins. Just 2.7 percent indicated that they’d wait until after school starts to do their shopping.