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Offline franksolich

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primitives find consumers on a spending spree
« on: September 30, 2008, 08:30:18 PM »
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4134642

Oh my.

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bananas  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Tue Sep-30-08 03:19 PM
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Home Depot was really busy today
   
The parking lot was full, cars going in and out.

I don't go there often, but it seemed unusually busy.

Inside, I overhead someone say, "It hasn't been this crowded in three months".

Does anyone know why it was so crowded?

Wondering if people are taking money out of the bank and putting it into their houses.

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Texas Explorer  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Tue Sep-30-08 03:20 PM
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1. Credit cards being pulled by BoA (and others) at midnight?

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bananas  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Tue Sep-30-08 03:22 PM
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3. That was my other thought - using credit cards or loans while they still can.

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daninthemoon  (1000+ posts) Tue Sep-30-08 03:20 PM
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2. I hope they aren't using their credit cards.

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Windycitychic  (5 posts) Tue Sep-30-08 03:40 PM
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4. HD cards are backed by Citibank. My hours got cut so drastically at HD it wasn't worth the cost of gas it was taking me to get there. Pushing those CC is a BIG deal there with often a prize awarded to the top seller. I couldn't in good conscience push a card at 24% interest.

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daninthemoon  (1000+ posts) Tue Sep-30-08 04:02 PM
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7. That's every retail store. Clerks are either required to, or rewarded for cc applications. At Sears, assoc. are required to get ten apps per month, and are salesclerks are given commission. I don't work there anymore, but one of the saddest days I had: a young guy and his wife, with rugrats in tow, came in to buy tools for a new job he was expecting. At first he just had a few items, and them I got him a credit card. He loaded up a cart with a bunch of other tools. He left. He came right back in from loading the car and bought a big screen tv. I'm sure that story had an unhappy ending. I wonder how much of this mess is from all these outrageous credit cards, rather than mortages.

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goclark  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Tue Sep-30-08 03:54 PM
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5. I saw the same think in Los Angeles
   
The lot was filled and it was really busy in Home Depot.

Same thing today.

Was it the "end of the month" sale or something?

It has been like a cave every time that I've been there in the last three months.

No lines

8 customers at most

Easy to get waitrf on at check out and then boom ~ it's alive again.

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bananas  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Tue Sep-30-08 07:31 PM
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9. Thanks for confirming it.
   
I'm down in San Diego.

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ThomWV  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Tue Sep-30-08 03:57 PM
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6. Tha'ts odd, last 3 or 4 times I've been in Lowes there have been more workers than customers
   
Lots more workers than customers - and I thought to myself, this can't go on for long. Those people are about to get laid off.

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spinbaby  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Tue Sep-30-08 04:09 PM
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8. End of the month
   
People just got paid.

Same thing happens at the grocery store. Jam packed this week; next week there'll be tumbleweeds in the aisles.

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catnhatnh  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Tue Sep-30-08 09:17 PM
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10. My Theories...
   
Spot heaters/alternate fuel burners...

Insulation/heat-loss barriers...

...it is most probably hedging (alternate heat) or belt tightening (energy efficiency) moves.

Just a reminder, folks; only about nine more weeks until the Wal-Mart Christmas shopping tales pop up on Skins's island, multiplying like rabbits.....and it's a good bet Ms. Ed, the unappellated eohippus (who left Skins's island last spring, but has now returned), will post the first one.
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Re: primitives find consumers on a spending spree
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2008, 10:37:34 PM »
At least a dozen times per month, DUmmies start threads about either a very unusually high number of shoppers, or a very unusually low number of shoppers.
A scarcity of shoppers is always due to the impact of this horrible Bushco economy.
An abundance of shoppers, as in this thread, is always due to the impact of this horrible Bushco economy.
In both cases, many DUmmies will chime in to confirm the observation and its cause.

In all cases, of course, the observations, the confirmations, and the causes are entirely imaginary.

« Last Edit: September 30, 2008, 11:11:58 PM by GOBUCKS »
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Re: primitives find consumers on a spending spree
« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2008, 11:10:56 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on September 30, 2008, 10:37:34 PM
At least a dozen times per month, DUmmies start threads about either an very unusually high number of shoppers, or a very unusually low number of shoppers.
A scarcity of shoppers is always due to the impact of this horrible Bushco economy.
An abundance of shoppers, as in this thread, is always due to the impact of this horrible Bushco economy.
In both cases, many DUmmies will chime in to confirm the observation and its cause.

In all cases, of course, the observations, the confirmations, and the causes are entirely imaginary.



You give them too much credit. To suggest these are imaginary also suggests they are flights of fantasy and/or self-delusion -- the underlying concept being the poster saw what he/she said.

These reports are just lies, plain and simple.
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Re: primitives find consumers on a spending spree
« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2008, 11:35:20 PM »
"What's going on?  Why are the stores crowded?"  Ummmmm, don't they know martial law is coming in TWO days?  Lord knows we are all going to need plenty of supplies, just in case.  And I always get my "martial law is coming/end of the world" supplies at Home Depot.  Who doesn't? 

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Re: primitives find consumers on a spending spree
« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2008, 03:04:42 PM »
Quote from: Traveshamockery on September 30, 2008, 11:35:20 PM
And I always get my "martial law is coming/end of the world" supplies at Home Depot.  Who doesn't? 

 :bwah:
I get mine from Cabelas or Ohio Rapid Fire. I figure that if need be, I can kill DUmmies, then loot anything I forgot to stock up on from their stash.
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Re: primitives find consumers on a spending spree
« Reply #5 on: October 01, 2008, 03:23:28 PM »
Yeah DUmmy, all those "people" there are called "contractors". They go there to get materials and tools to produce in a better capacity for something called a "job".
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Re: primitives find consumers on a spending spree
« Reply #6 on: October 01, 2008, 04:29:58 PM »
Quote from: Tantal on October 01, 2008, 03:04:42 PM
Quote from: Traveshamockery on September 30, 2008, 11:35:20 PM
And I always get my "martial law is coming/end of the world" supplies at Home Depot.  Who doesn't? 

 :bwah:
I get mine from Cabelas or Ohio Rapid Fire. I figure that if need be, I can kill DUmmies, then loot anything I forgot to stock up on from their stash.

You best be in MOPP 4 before you try that . . .   :o
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Re: primitives find consumers on a spending spree
« Reply #7 on: October 01, 2008, 04:30:48 PM »
Quote from: Tantal on October 01, 2008, 03:04:42 PM
Quote from: Traveshamockery on September 30, 2008, 11:35:20 PM
And I always get my "martial law is coming/end of the world" supplies at Home Depot.  Who doesn't? 

 :bwah:
I get mine from Cabelas or Ohio Rapid Fire. I figure that if need be, I can kill DUmmies, then loot anything I forgot to stock up on from their stash.


My husband and I divide and conquer.  I do the Home Depot and he goes to Cabela's.  Come to think of it - he spends far too much time at Cabela's.  Hmmmm.
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