Located 641 results from search term 'Retail'
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Commented in European economy grows 2%, ending double-dip recession
German auto companies in particular have shown strong profits despite a shortage of semiconductor components as global auto markets recover, particularly for the higher-priced vehicles sold by Mercedes-Benz and by Volkswagen’s Audi and Porsche luxury brands.
Makes one wonder what they actually mean by "economy". Normally it is the banks, stocktraders and people who have otherwise capital gains by, for instance, rent. I do not see that many people on the bottomside of society become healthier let alone wealthier. All I see (in my hometown) is more homeless people, longer lines at foodbanks, more closed shops and retail buildings/offices, empty for months, ready for new entrepreneurs (which aren't that many and if so, not for long). The real economy, the one where regular people trade and do business with things like food or goods, isn't doing that well for a few years. Covid was just the last push over the edge for many.
Governments still believe that having low interest rates will do good, but all it does is creating cheap money for said stocktraders and bankers. Regular people buy houses with cheap loans, but it's just waiting for the interest rates to rise and see a slew of new homeless people in the streets. Lot's of people live way above their means, all thanks to central banks and their old fashioned way of handling pretty much every economic crisis. Rings a bell? In 2007/2008 a very same thing happened when people borrowed money for way too expensive houses and goods and that fraud didn't end well for many, now did it?
Money is worth less and less, because it doesn't represent anything in return: no gold, no other valuable goods and is merely speculative, just like houses are a way to speculate and not use it where it's meant for. Lower the rent, print a little more, it's becoming really obvious the "West" is in a downward spiral. Let's hope the neoliberal way of acting and thinking is in decline, because that cancer needs to be done with. It's excesses are detroying society and I do not think any current politician is willing or able to remove that tumor. Growth for the sake of growth is the way a cancer-cell works.
Now, which one of you dear people bought a few Porsches and the newest Mercedes lately? I bought a bike. Not because I have shitloads of cash to spend, but because I need it for my job. I am a painter, but I repair bikes to survive. And guess what? I'm one of the lucky ones, so far. And you?
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Commented in How to stream NFL football games in 2020 | ZDNet
My hubby is locked and loaded for games today. Me...I will be out enjoying retail therapy while he gets his fill of NFL games.
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Commented in Fashion unravelled: why you get holes in your T-shirts faster (even when you pay more)
I gave up keeping up with fashion for comfort a long time ago. That helped lower my retail therapy expenditures and far fewer outbursts when things shrunk/got holes, etc.
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Commented in Roku may pull Fox channels just ahead of the Super Bowl
Super Bowl streaming gets new life! Hubby and pals will be watching...online retail therapy for me!
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Commented in 15 Frugal Living Tips Guaranteed to Save You Money
Good tips BUT retail therapy is my go-to after a stressful day/week. ;-)
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Commented in Why Shopping Makes You Feel High
Not sure it is a natural high I feel when shopping but I do love some retail therapy! ;-)
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Commented in Depositors Are Next as Nordic Banks Buckle Under Negative Rates
“I don’t think it would necessarily destroy retail banking at all,” Stadigh said in an interview in Helsinki. “People would actually then have to pay for their deposits, so actually it could even bring stability to the banking sector.”
What fantasy world is this guy living in?
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Commented in Overstock surges 26% after CEO says it will sell retail business by February to focus on crypto
Overstock loses two-thirds of its value since the beginning of the year, announces it'll quit the business it's in weeks ago, in exchange for magic beans, and suddenly this is widely seen as a good move? I guess it is that time of year. It's a blockchain hype miracle!
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Commented in Everything Is Booming Except for Wages
Absolutely. Look at what has been happening in all industries for the past 20 years, consolidation. It doesn't matter which one you look at, newspapers, retail, any kind of food producers, right down to farming, and of course now social media, all are owned by fewer and fewer players. And the government is complicit in this, especially banking, which I consider the most insidious.
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Commented in Twitter Admits There Were More Than 50,000 Russian Bots Trying to Confuse American Voters Before the Election
Everyone needs to understand the built-in conflict of interest that these social media companies face in the free-market environment.
Since I worked on Wall Street (on the retail side) I am acutely aware of the need for social media companies to be able to attract financing (initially, mainly equity financing).
In addition, these companies sometimes use their stock to make strategic acquisitions.
In order to achieve these two objectives the companies need to show that they are growing. But, what if part of that "growth" is a result of fake bot accounts???
Another measure that Wall Street uses to evaluate social media companies is the level of "engagement", which is often measured in terms of "active users per month".
Since bots are automated and have a "high frequency of use" the social media companies hurt themselves when they expose, suspend, or cancel these accounts.
So, the "growth rate" and "active users per month" metrics are diminished if these companies develop and maintain a strict surveillance and control over these bot accounts.
Diminished metrics mean lower stock prices. Lower stock prices hurts the ability to make strategic acquisitions with elevated stock values.
Dealing with bot accounts is not an easy problem to resolve, and the incentive to resolve" is inherently conflicted.
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Commented in Amazon Go Cashierless Convenience Store Opening to the Public
The store requires customers to scan their smartphone on the way in,
Those without a smartphone will do without.
Amazon has said the goal isn’t to make retail employees redundant,
But that is exactly what will happen.
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Commented in DMX Has Released an Official Cover of "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer"
Why would I want to listen to this? I HATE xmas music. If I never hear "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" again in my life,I won't shed a tear. Why do they keep recycling those same tired,old moldy songs over and over again? If only they would let them just die,but noooooooo! I especially feel sorry for people in retail forced to listen to those 12 or so old tunes daily for over a month and cannot escape.
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Commented in LCBO recalls 1.14-litre bottles of Bombay Sapphire gin
I just posted a local craigslist ad requesting all unopened bottles of recalled gin to be delivered to my place as retail cost. I wonder how many will respond!
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Commented in Is Universal Basic Income a Good Idea? Stick Around, Because We're About to Find out
This will make me sound like a broken record but, why do none of these articles ever discuss the very important part of it, money, you can't give away money and not get some back somewhere; Especially when the cost of this for the US would be double our current budget. I imagine it's similar elsewhere. Do they believe that giving a UBI will make those people spend more at retail or some other place to recoup the cost?
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Commented in Amazon unveils ‘self-driving’ brick-and-mortar convenience store
That's pretty cool. Although, I have a very good friend who works at Target. I feel horrible for people who depend on jobs in retail if this type of thing moves quickly into the main stream.
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Commented in Apple is now officially a dongle company that happens to make smartphones and computers.
You can take some comfort in the knowledge that iPhone build quality is so bad that it’d’ve fried out before very long anyway. Nobody, especially Apple, wants you using the same phone for more than three years. I lost a phone I’d paid full retail for, and while I could blame myself for not having freed up more of its 16GB of storage earlier, that motherboard failure would likely’ve happened anyway. That, I’ll chalk up to happenstance. The replacement cost for a new motherboard from Apple, that much I can blame them for. Mine wasn’t even one of those they were making out of butter tub plastic for a while there.
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Commented in Remote Control
I’ve run into zombie-eyed Molyneux adherents that really expect you to get into their jargon. Because everyday concepts understood by common people are invalid and, I suppose, resistance must be futile. Closest thing to the LaRouchies I’ve come across in ages, and I've had Mormon missionaries by recently. One wonders how many such people are self-medicating for mental health issues by snuggling up nice’n cozy in retail worldviews like that. I’m close to concluding that’s what the target market is. Wouldn’t you have to be a bit mad to go in for an outfit like that?
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Commented in In plot twist, independent bookstores survive forecasted doom
Cache as cache can.
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Commented in Scots pagan loses battle to create shrine to forest god Herne
I wish somebody nearby would ask for the right to build a small chapel as well, just to see what the response would be. I don't know Scottish law and whether they have a 1st amendment situation there so it may not matter either way. On the other hand, it may actually have to do with the character of the land, we have a planning commission in a city that disapproves anything that isn't of the old "bavarian" style architecture for shopping and retail centers.
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Commented in Soaring prison population prompts Thailand to re-think 'lost' drug war
The reason is simple. The taxes are so high that it makes the product expensive in a retail location. This, in turn, keeps the black market going with its high prices. That said, the fact is that on the wholesale side the price of cannabis has dropped 300% in the past 8 years. Most end-users don't see that relief because dispensary owners are greedy fucks.
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Commented in Amazon's counterfeit problem is getting worse and sellers are enraged
This makes their decision to eliminate retail prices on items seem a little more sinister.
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Commented in Everything Stores Do to Trick You into Buying More Stuff
I've heard plenty of retail horror stories, dont doubt the management would do anything to get it's staff to compete.
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Commented in Apple Store's worst feature? Customers, says ex-employee
I feel so sorry for people working retail who can't fight back.
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Commented in A New Way of Walking
I truly didn't mean to sound defensive. Sorry if I did; I'm just enthusiastic about psychogeography. I think it's among the most interesting ways to engage people with their surroundings.
I have read about geo-merchandising. I've also heard it called retail geography. How interesting to hear from someone who has actually done the work! What surprised you the most about what you found out?
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Commented in Manufacturing Jobs Are Never Coming Back
candidates ought to be talking about ways to ensure that the service sector can fill manufacturing’s former role as a provider of dependable, decent-paying jobs.
It says this a few times, that service and retail are the future, but those jobs pay so much less than manufacturing, the GM plant here paid temps $20 base, $2.50 CoLA and anything over 8 hours was counted as overtime at time and a half for $30 an hour. They closed up shop and moved away, there was nothing to take it's place because Ford had already done the same.
Here the retail at Home Depot started at $8.50, full time was 29 hours, anybody getting overtime was sent home early to make up for it. They just raised it to $10 across the board and hours for some have gone up to around 40.
There is little comparison in those items though wage wise. Manufacturing may not be coming back and what little that does is automated, but retail/service being called a replacement for it is a joke to those that were make 22.50 before and are not making half of it now. For future generations starting out they'll never know those pay scales, but for those that were in them and lost them, it's going to get ugly on the poverty lines.