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Early Data Show Weak Holiday Sales
Wall Street Journal ^
| December 25, 2012, 5:57 p.m. ET.
| SHELLY BANJO
Posted on 12/25/2012 4:22:09 PM PST by Steelers6
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To: Steelers6
For all our neighbors we gave them home grown and home baked Zucchini bread and to some others homemade sweet potato pie. They appreciated that more than any purchased gifts .... wicked bread and pie. If you apply inflation to the given retail sales, they are actually less, much less than the last couple of years. More importantly, the post Christmas returns haven’t started yet. If they are anything like past years, it will drive sales down another couple of percentage points. The MSM administration pimps made a gigantic deal about the great increase in sales, starting out at 8 - 10% increase after Thanksgiving. I didn’t believe it just because of the half empty parking lots at the mall, Walmart, and the other major stores. We ended up buying durable gifts for the family and spent significantly less than in previous years.
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posted on
12/25/2012 5:56:14 PM PST
by
RetiredTexasVet
(Save the nation, have your family's progressives spayed or neutered.)
To: 1rudeboy; 50mm
To: GlockThe Vote
Same here and double **** the kenyan.
LLS
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posted on
12/25/2012 5:59:29 PM PST
by
LibLieSlayer
(A child is born in Bethlehem KING of KINGS)
To: Cringing Negativism Network
No more weak holiday sales, right? /s
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posted on
12/25/2012 6:00:32 PM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: Steelers6
I bought socks and a scarf (scarves are coming back!)
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posted on
12/25/2012 6:01:24 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: Cringing Negativism Network
“Buy American. - Stop importing everything.”
I understand what you are saying BUT I now have major reservations with the whole Buy America issue because of UNIONS...I try to check out a company before I buy and if it’s a Union...I say screw them!
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posted on
12/25/2012 6:03:00 PM PST
by
blueyon
(The U. S. Constitution - read it and weep)
To: Cringing Negativism Network; Sacajaweau
Try and Find Made in America"Checkmate.
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posted on
12/25/2012 6:03:25 PM PST
by
KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
To: 1rudeboy
Next Christmas will be even better with all the low end workers converted to “29ers”
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posted on
12/25/2012 6:04:17 PM PST
by
nascarnation
(Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
To: 1rudeboy
Well I would be hesitant to buy anything, considering the only thing your money would go to, is keeping Chinese workers employed.
Buy American.
When you buy imports, you only send your money out of America.
That is my point. At this point, almost everything, in almost every store is made in China.
To: nascarnation
And independent contractors like me, forced to become 29ers.
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posted on
12/25/2012 6:05:50 PM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: KC_Lion
To: 1rudeboy
Understood. Merry Christmas!
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posted on
12/25/2012 6:07:11 PM PST
by
50mm
(Trust nobody and you'll never be disappointed.)
To: skeeter
Every so called journolista in America should be deported or worse.
LLS
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posted on
12/25/2012 6:07:32 PM PST
by
LibLieSlayer
(A child is born in Bethlehem KING of KINGS)
To: Cringing Negativism Network
And that's the simplest of economic concepts that you fail to understand. You would prefer to have weak sales, as long as more American items are bought. Weakness is strength, right? Better to have half of a small pie, than a third of a large one.
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posted on
12/25/2012 6:08:39 PM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: blueyon
Private sector unions are a small and quickly shrinking part of the US business sector. They get publicity because 1) most media are unionized, so they promote the union agenda and 2) unions cause a lot of trouble which creates "news"
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posted on
12/25/2012 6:10:30 PM PST
by
nascarnation
(Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
To: 1rudeboy
Look you and I have pretty much opposite views on imports.
Several decades ago, mine was very much like yours.
My view has changed 180 degrees now, because our trade situation has changed 180 degrees.
Some viewpoints haven’t recognized the massive change in world trade which has happened in the last two decades.
You will.
To: Cringing Negativism Network
No, I won’t. I don’t expect the government to come run and protect me from the free market. Because I know that, when it tries, I get screwed. Maybe you’re just getting soft in your old age.
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posted on
12/25/2012 6:14:32 PM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: Sacajaweau; Cringing Negativism Network
"It just wont happen....CORPORATE TAXES. We FORCED people out of the states."
Poor lefties. Many of those global corporate idols (buffalo worshipers that they are...oh, excu-u-u-u-se me--"bison") recently spoke against our Second Amendment. Yep. Zoning "laws" in the middle of nowhere against new, small manufacturing starts didn't have anything to do with it. Neither did environmentalism or animal worship on the part of third and fourth generation brats in global corporate families (see academics, political class, all). [More than a little irony and sarcasm there.]
Socialist, government-linked big business collaborators with foreign communist nations aside, though, the default process will be the correction. Government can't stay huge and continue to regulate against real producers and their families (family busting, courtesy romanticist/feminist big shots) without big revenues of real value (re. funny money printing doesn't work).
Let the traitors against our USA go away and stay in their third-world tourist reserves. We need new men in leadership in business, academia and politics.
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posted on
12/25/2012 6:15:12 PM PST
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
To: Cringing Negativism Network
Nice thread hijack, though. I've noticed that you like to appear early, and distract everyone from why holiday sales might be weak.
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posted on
12/25/2012 6:16:33 PM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: 1rudeboy
Thread hijack?
Huh? I am simply disagreeing with you.
If you have something to contribute to the conversation please do so.
Making silly accusations is not a contribution in my book.
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