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The Yahoo headline reads: "Last minute shoppers help retailers meet modest sales goals."

Like, ok, the goals were met, but they were MODEST, so our economy is still awful!

I could not park at our local mall yesterday. The place was packed out. I needed to get some milk and eggs, but I gave up and went home.

1 posted on 12/25/2007 9:23:26 AM PST by Marie2
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but I gave up and went home.

SEE! Even Freepers aren't shopping.

Sarcasm off.

2 posted on 12/25/2007 9:25:40 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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I hate these a-holes with a passion.


3 posted on 12/25/2007 9:28:41 AM PST by lawnguy (The wand chooses the wizard, Mr. Potter.)
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Another surge works. Yet another surge of denial from the MSM. Is there a pattern of behavior here?


4 posted on 12/25/2007 9:29:58 AM PST by theBuckwheat
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And with post-Christmas shopping to come, some malls and stores were downright optimistic.

OMGSTFULOL

6 posted on 12/25/2007 9:34:41 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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Every year of a Republican administration the treasonous media trots out the same predictions of Christmas’ sales doom. And every year they are wrong.

This is the same as their assessment of every Republican President being a moron while every Democrat President is a sublime genius.

These rags are not only blatant propaganda for the liberal/socialist/communist/Democrat totalitarians; but they are transparent propaganda rags!


7 posted on 12/25/2007 9:37:57 AM PST by DakotaGator (I despise presstitutes!)
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Don’t you read the news? The economy is in complete shambles. No one can buy a home or pay their mortgage, all toys are tainted with lead, and foreigners are taking over all US companies. It’s all Bush’s fault, or so I read.


8 posted on 12/25/2007 9:41:07 AM PST by CitizenUSA
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Every day they get funnier and funnier. It must be hell to be a liberal/socialist in the United States. IMHO


10 posted on 12/25/2007 9:50:38 AM PST by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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My wife is the night manager at one of our local Super Wal-Marts. Her store was budgeted to do 158K/day for the 4 days leading up to Christmas. They did 300K+, 400K+, 400K+ the first three days. She does not know what they did yesterday because the store closed at 6pm and she did not have to work. This is in a county with a population of 78K-80K population with two Super Wal-Marts. She does not know what the other store did.


12 posted on 12/25/2007 10:48:17 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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Easy enough, I suppose, to proclaim the season disappointing when online sales (which the article says were up 19%) are excluded. Can you say "rigged"?

Though'cha could.

13 posted on 12/25/2007 10:51:52 AM PST by BfloGuy (It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect . . .)
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could not park at our local mall yesterday. The place was packed out. I needed to get some milk and eggs

You buy milk and eggs at the mall?

16 posted on 12/25/2007 11:39:06 AM PST by razorback-bert (Remember that amateurs built the Ark while professionals built the Titanic.)
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