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Jonesapple10
Posts: 379
Incept: 2010-11-09
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With 5 Fridays in November, I'd say these numbers suck.
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Susanjbear
Posts: 417
Incept: 2010-06-10
Salt Lake City, Utah
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Are they blaming it on Sandy?
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Genesis
Posts: 130803
Incept: 2007-06-26
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No -- the report says Sandy had no material impact.
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Mayorquimby
Posts: 13909
Incept: 2008-09-18
The Archaic Past
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Was at the mall yesterday (high end mall) and to say shopping was muted would be an overstatement. It was dead.
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Visualcsharp
Posts: 343
Incept: 2009-12-19
Round Rock, TX
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No matter how much the media and government say that the recession is over (and yet we need to tax the rich because they aren't paying their fair share?) everyone is aware of the true reality: most people are dead broke.
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Nomullet
Posts: 6830
Incept: 2007-11-11
SW
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online=margin compression
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Ktrosper
Posts: 1500
Incept: 2010-04-06
ft collins co
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Gen wrote..Online's share continued to increase, however. I guess if there's a "bright spot" it's there. Even that is somewhat of a double-edged sword... I'm not sure the local retailers consider that a "bright spot". lol. City, County and State tax collectors definitly don't ;) KT
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Grunwald
Posts: 262
Incept: 2012-06-01
Seattle
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Was listening to Bloomberg radio this morning and they were going over some of these numbers. I was stll in bed and half aseep but someone made the point that the low end retailers have reported that people's purchases are strong right after getting paid but drop off significantly towards the end of the pay period. Basically the lower income people are running out of money between paychecks and/or government benefit checks.
Hearing this on Bloomberg was surprising as they have been pretty much in cheerleader mode for a long time.
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Mrbill
Posts: 7857
Incept: 2008-10-19
North Carolina
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But Black Friday!!!!! Wasn't it the greatest day ever in the history of selling things????
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Glenn
Posts: 19
Incept: 2007-06-26
Prishtina, Kosovo
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Also, these numbers are not adjusted for price changes. Not a lot of things have gotten much cheaper in the past year...
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Musicandnature
Posts: 1955
Incept: 2007-12-05
NJ
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good point Glenn.
concerning Sandy, one would think it would increase sales in many areas
to offset drops in others.
Dec is really gonna be bad. It just doen't "feel like Christmas" to anyone I speak with. national depression ? maybe until as Karl says we start seeing laws enforced against the true criminals.
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Vitchilo
Posts: 4635
Incept: 2011-04-27
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And autos are up because of channel stuffing.
And those prices aren't annexed to inflation.
Just imagine those sale numbers when we have 20%+ inflation! It'll be very bullish!
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Enapa
Posts: 1165
Incept: 2008-01-25
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Black friday had have stunk. Every day i hear ads for huge sales. I dont ever remem er there being sales like this until after christmas. Bought my wife a hoodie at aeropostale that is normally $44. I paid $12. And they had lots of them. All sizes and all colors. They had 3 pair of socks buy 1 get 2 free. It was hilarious. Felt like i was stealing.
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Cvdoc
Posts: 163
Incept: 2009-06-11
Washington, DC
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Even my kids are cutting back. One wants a hula hoop and the other some movie passes. "We should cut back so poor people don't feel bad". Wow
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