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Hundreds of thousands of retail workers are being furloughed or permanently laid off
businessinsider ^ | 04/08/2020 | Mary Hanbury and Hayley Peterson

Posted on 04/09/2020 8:33:30 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Hundreds of thousands of retail workers across the US have been furloughed from their jobs until further notice as their employers take drastic measures to cut costs during the coronavirus crisis.

The retail sector has been hit hard over the past few weeks and months, and for conflicting reasons. While grocery chains and food delivery companies are scrambling to meet surging demand, other retail businesses deemed "nonessential" by the government have been forced to shutter stores and are now finding that a large portion of their business has dried up.

Store closures across the country are taking their toll on the people who previously worked in these now-shuttered locations and who now find themselves without a paycheck.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: economy; furloughed; laidoff; retail; workers
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1 posted on 04/09/2020 8:33:30 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I want these governors and local governments to pay for all the lifes they are ruined. Karma is a bitch. Wishful thinking i know.


2 posted on 04/09/2020 8:34:23 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is not gonna end well.

Give it a few more weeks.


3 posted on 04/09/2020 8:34:34 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: cuban leaf

One more week is about all I’d push it, I hope President Trump set a worst case scenario and is going to reconsider opening early. I know, it’s also going to be up to the Governors too...


4 posted on 04/09/2020 8:39:32 AM PDT by Son House
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To: ChicagoConservative27

5 posted on 04/09/2020 8:42:16 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: cuban leaf

One of the most dangerous and effective aspects of the ChiCom bio-weapon Covid-19 is that it sets Americans against each other, instead of against the ChiCom launchers of the bio-weapon.

A key attribute of this ChiCom bio-weapon is that its immediate effects do not rise to the level of a Pearl Harbor or 9-11, inviting immediate massive retaliation. Instead, it slowly weakens its enemy targets via several paths:

1. the disease itself, overburdening medical systems across Europe, resulting in

2. the social-distance economic shutdown and subsequent depression, and

3. now Americans are set bitterly against each other instead of against China, which launched the bio-weapon in the first place. And the EU is collapsing.

From the ChiCom POV, it’s win-win-win.


6 posted on 04/09/2020 8:43:01 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

My wife was furloughed from a major department store. Our health insurance runs out at the end of May.


7 posted on 04/09/2020 8:44:06 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: ChicagoConservative27

BI = BS


8 posted on 04/09/2020 8:44:15 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: Travis McGee

I see you have cheered up a little


9 posted on 04/09/2020 8:45:02 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sargent: “Do you want a dishonorable discharge??”

Woody Allen: “y-yes sir, either that or a furlough”


10 posted on 04/09/2020 8:45:38 AM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I doubt anyone at the Smithsonian souvenir shop has been laid off (unless they lease their space to a private business).

ML/NJ


11 posted on 04/09/2020 8:45:51 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The only reason I am optomistic this might turn around faster than we think, as I drive around, it seems all the industrial businesses are still going. It seems the biggest impact is to retail, so there is still a large segment of our workforce getting paid.


12 posted on 04/09/2020 8:46:09 AM PDT by Yogafist
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Maybe they should learn to code...or how to clean bedpans


13 posted on 04/09/2020 8:46:14 AM PDT by Karliner (Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28 Isa 17 "This is the end of the beginning" W Churchill)
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It’s not entirely up to the governors. Trump can force their hand with an executive order or a memo to the AG. Something like “It is ILLEGAL under the Constitution of the United States to restrict gathering, movement, or to mandate closure of business as a result of the virus”. If governors keep businesses closed then send in the NATIONAL GUARD to make sure they are allowed to re-open.

Eisenhower did the same thing in the 50s to open the schools. This is a civil rights issue much the same. Life and LIBERTY shall not be restricted.


14 posted on 04/09/2020 8:46:20 AM PDT by CaliGangsta
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To: ChicagoConservative27

My sister in-law just got hire back to Kohl’s to work for their online drive up orders.

They were having problems getting some people to come back to work. I bet she gets another pay raise for coming back to work.

You can still buy stuff from Kohl’s online then pick up at store.


15 posted on 04/09/2020 8:48:18 AM PDT by DEPcom (Social Distancing is working)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sixteen million new claims over the past three weeks? Thank you, Captain Obvious.


16 posted on 04/09/2020 8:48:19 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Travis McGee

However, the EU collapsing is a good thing...same with the globalist one-world crapola.


17 posted on 04/09/2020 8:50:23 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

Kroger is hiring like crazy and they are a union shop...

Health insurance pretty much Day 1 for full-timers and family.


18 posted on 04/09/2020 8:50:40 AM PDT by L,TOWM (An upraised middle finger is my virtue signal.)
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To: CaliGangsta

Have the leftists ripped up the constitution in Washington DC as yet?


19 posted on 04/09/2020 8:51:30 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s good we off shored all of our factories so these dead beats will never become over paid bolt turners. /sarcasm.


20 posted on 04/09/2020 8:53:24 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn....)
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