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DeepModem Mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-25-06 10:53 AM Original message |
NYT/Reuters: Wal-Mart's Weak Sales Dampen Holiday Season Hopes |
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dkofos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-25-06 10:59 AM Response to Original message |
1. Are the sheeple finally tiring of cheap chinese crap?? |
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Nabia2004 (566 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-25-06 11:32 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. No, just less disposable income - nt |
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papau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-26-06 09:20 AM Response to Reply #6 |
19. Bingo! - after "inflation" hourly wage flat for 6 years but inflation's understated |
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Delphinus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-26-06 07:12 PM Response to Reply #6 |
22. And, |
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diamidue (606 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-25-06 01:07 PM Response to Reply #1 |
12. Not EVERYTHING that cheap |
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w4rma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-25-06 08:45 PM Response to Reply #12 |
17. More places. |
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greccogirl (566 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-26-06 10:25 PM Response to Reply #12 |
25. $88 for a doll? Not likely. |
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rocktivity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-25-06 11:06 AM Response to Original message |
2. The real question is, have other retailers seen their sales get STRONGER? |
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BleedingHeartPatriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-25-06 11:11 AM Response to Original message |
3. My response to Wal Mart's gradual yet accelerating downward direction... |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-25-06 11:25 AM Response to Original message |
4. Time to cut employee salary and benefits again |
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Dhalgren (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-25-06 11:30 AM Response to Original message |
5. Maybe, just maybe, the poor of the country are feeling the slap |
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Buttercup McToots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-25-06 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
7. Geeesez |
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Divernan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-26-06 06:47 PM Response to Reply #7 |
21. No live tree for me this year; and bare minimum shopping. |
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AnneD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-27-06 10:01 AM Response to Reply #21 |
27. Tips... |
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The Count (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-25-06 11:43 AM Response to Original message |
8. Now it can be told - with the elections behind us, reality creeps in... |
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bronxiteforever (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-25-06 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
9. Great Oil Party also stole whatever was left of the working class's |
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sallyseven (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-25-06 12:04 PM Response to Original message |
10. Maybe the people are getting sick of Wal Mart |
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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-25-06 12:05 PM Response to Original message |
11. Weak Sales for Walmart? |
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NVMojo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-25-06 01:08 PM Response to Original message |
13. when a person's minimum wage pay gets taken up by the Thanksgiving |
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AnnieBW (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-25-06 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
14. Awwww... |
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dchill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-25-06 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
15. "...Dampen Holiday Season Hopes..." |
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DemBones DemBones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-25-06 07:34 PM Response to Original message |
16. Perhaps more people are celebrating Buy Nothing Day? |
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recoveringrepublican (779 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-25-06 11:58 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. I'll be celebrating this all year round |
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fishnfla (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-26-06 09:32 AM Response to Original message |
20. Target was whacked, WM changed the lay-away policy eom |
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brentspeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-26-06 07:41 PM Response to Original message |
23. Our nation has really fallen low if the rise-and-fall of Mall-Wart's fortunes |
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greccogirl (566 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-26-06 10:23 PM Response to Original message |
24. Don't believe a word of it. Every Wal Mart in town |
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lithiumbomb (217 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-26-06 10:55 PM Response to Original message |
26. it's lowering expectations so they can only go up |
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