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Walmart, JC Penny Down, growth @ 0.1%, New Cars out of Reach and Salries too low
2013 Feb 28, 2:48am 5,857 views 14 comments
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MsBennet
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2013 Feb 28, 7:35am
boo fucking hoo
are Walmart and JCP too big too fail?
Walmart can go frak themselves. They are "THE" worst retailer out there.
Remember Wooworth's?
MsBennet
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2013 Feb 28, 7:38am
hey claimed that collisions and deaths are up, because cars are outdated, and old. And thanks to the rebounding economy and cheap gas more people are on the road(I swear to GOD this is what they said.).
It's now official. The news bureaus make this crap up.
NDrLoR
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2013 Mar 1, 1:03am
The frame overlays the intersecting road perfectly. It obfuscates about 50 feet of some intersections.
I've hated this in newer cars for years! My next to last car was an '04 VW New Beetle TDI with head restraints that blocked my vision in every direction. I pulled them out of their slots and put them in the trunk while I owned it. I traded it in on a brand new '07 Altima 3.5 SE at the end of '06 which I loved, but you couldn't remove the head restraints. I had to lower the right front seat back below the window sill to see out. Last summer when it had only 19,500 miles on it, I decided to sell it to a new car dealer which gave me $14,500 for it. I bought a '75 Pontiac Grand Ville convertible with only 62K on it for half that price and have an old '98 Buick Le Sabre I drive around town. If I need to take an out-of-town trip, I rent a car for the time I need it. I got tired of bells and chimes and buzzers and blinking lights all the time.
I rented a 2013 Ford Focus late last year for three days and I found out if I got over the speed limit wherever I was, a bell would ring and a message would appear that said "Drive Safely - Observe All Speed Laws"! There is a section on I-35 now from Hillsboro to the Ellis County line where the speed limit is 75--when I got to that speed, a message appeared that said "Vehicle is Approaching its Maximum Speed". I asked the lady at Enterprise about it and she said all Fords are being designed not to go over 80 and the cars today know what the speed limit is whever you are. When I needed to rent another one on New Year's weekend, I specifically asked for a non-Ford product! The idea!
Amazing how the payroll tax cut not being renewed by the Repukes is destroying Walmart
I'm sure the payroll tax cut will be re-introduced soon!
The 2% pay cut to most working families due to the payroll tax raise is percentage-wise exactly the same as the Sequester Monster's 2% cut into the federal budget. I wonder why the bureaucrats are not taking a 2% salary cut each, and be done with it.
ELC
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2013 Mar 2, 10:44am
the oligarchical collectivist police state is telling the lemmings to consume. Recklessly.
If you need seven seats was it they who told you to breed as well? Recklessly.
boo fucking hoo
are Walmart and JCP too big too fail?
Walmart can go frak themselves. They are "THE" worst retailer out there.
White House official: Obama to tap Walmart exec as budget chief
CBS News - ‎5 hours ago‎ - Sun Mar 3 2013
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate Walmart's Sylvia Matthews Burwell as his next budget director, a senior administration official said.
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New Cars out of Reach for More Americans
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/cars-increasingly-reach-many-americans-145957880.html
Looking to buy a new car, truck or crossover? You may find it more difficult to stretch the household budget than you expected, according to a new study that finds median-income families in only one major U.S. city actually can afford the typical new vehicle.
US Economy grew 0.1% in Q4
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-economy-grew-01-in-fourth-quarter-2013-02-28
J.C. Penney Lowest Sales in Decades
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-27/j-c-penney-posts-wider-fourth-quarter-net-loss.html
J.C. Penney Co. (JCP) slid the most in more than three decades after the department-store chain lost $4.3 billion in sales in the first year of Chief Executive Officer Ron Johnson’s turnaround plan.
Wal-Mart Struggles to Restock Store Shelves
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-27/wal-mart-s-slowness-stock-shelves-worsens-as-sales-stay-s.html
Wal-Mart's inability to keep its shelves stocked coincides with slowing sales growth. Same-store sales in the U.S. for the 13 weeks ending April 26 will be little changed, Simon said in the company’s Feb. 21 earnings call.
The 14 Potential Causes of the Income Slump
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/the-14-potential-causes-of-the-income-slump/
Why has median household income just endured its worst 12-year stretch since the Great Depression.
Seems that things aren't as Rosy as market suggests.