Even with a socialist in the White House, DUmmies continue to search for any indication of hard times. They love to talk about evidence that American economic activity has ground to a halt, with little hope for revival. One obvious reason is their hatred of anything American and anyone successful. Another reason is that the more they can convince one another of the dismal state of American life, the easier it is to justify their failure to prosper, and their lack of effort to improve their situations.
TwixVoy (1000+ posts) Sat Aug-08-09 10:36 PM
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Anyone been to a JC Penny recently?
Has anyone been to a JC Penny recently? I noticed just about every damn thing in the store has something on it saying SALE. It really sends the "We are desperate" message.
When I still worked at Target a few months ago we were getting desperate enough to meet our sales goals we had started to try to do the same thing (put sale on as much as possible), but damn we didn't do it to the extent JC Penny is. Literally as I walked around the store everything with out exception had some kind of "sale" going.
Makes me wonder how the retail numbers will be come Christmas.... I wish I still worked at Target. As a manager I had access to sales numbers for every store in the country. Would be nice to know what the real numbers were again....
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6256635I put the only indisputably true words in this post in bold.
DUmmy TwixVoy, now with five days' seniority as an AT&T cable guy trainee, has always claimed to be a retail insider, based on a short career clerking at Target, capped by termination a few months ago. With all that expertise in the retail trade, it's really hard to understand why he's shocked to find Penney's running back-to-school sales. Maybe he wasn't in charge of marketing.
dflprincess (1000+ posts) Sat Aug-08-09 10:40 PM
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1. Penny's has a lot of sales
but isn't it also the time of year when they really want to dump as much of the summer merchandise as possible?
Yes.
Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Sat Aug-08-09 10:41 PM
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2. I was a couple of weeks ago
Couldn't find a thing I would drag home and yes, EVERYTHING was on sale.
That's a sure sign of a maxed-out DUmmy credit card.
I challenge anyone to make any sense whatsoever out of the following post :
RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Sat Aug-08-09 10:45 PM
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3. Why have economic success without a system with equal justice?
Some people think it is like some kind of a deal where economic success is a trade off for allowing a few people to make decisions.
Seriously, their are some people that want things to fail if they can't run it. Screw'em, if someone says they have to have a two tiered justice system in order for anything to work, it is better if nothing functions.
I personally don't make deals, either there is justice with compassion or nothing else really matters, a false image of 'survival' under a slavery of lack of justice is not worth it, nor is it acceptable. It does not matter what a side might say it will do, if they say the economy will go down if you do not follow a few peoples claim to rule, or if they say their will be civil strife if you do not submit to unjust rule, Screw'em.
If there is not justice with compassion and transparency then it does not matter what the world economy is, how bad they make it, or what effects happen from that.
I knew you couldn't do it. At least we now know one screen name used at the DUmp by vestanumbers. I would recognize that steeltrap mind anywhere.
Generic Brad (1000+ posts) Sat Aug-08-09 10:54 PM
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7. I was there today and was highly disappointed
I was ready to lay out a couple hundred bucks for a suit, but they only stock things for little twerpy stick men. They did not have ONE suit jacket that came close to fitting me. I'm a bigger than average man, but I'm not huge by any stretch of the imagination.
Of course they were no different that any other retailer I visited today. Everything is on sale at all of them and none of them have a single garment that fits me.
If Pennys really wanted to sell merchandise, they might consider stocking clothes for people who can afford to buy them.
Wow. DUmmy Generic Brad was prepared to lay out two bills, two Benjamins, two C-notes, two kinda large, on his credit card, for a snazzy suit, size 58 short. And Penney's didn't have one on the rack. An ominous sign of retail collapse in the United States, but starvation does not appear to be a problem.
TlalocW (1000+ posts) Sat Aug-08-09 11:04 PM
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9. During Bush's reign
The relatively nice (but small) mall close to me had just about every major store in it go out of business. JC Penney's space was bought and converted into an office for Coca-Cola (loading bay underneath stores their products). During Clinton's day, there was a Dillards there that would sell after hour tickets to various businesses who wanted to treat their workers to something special during Christmas. We were given a coupon worth $20 off anything in the store, there were roaming carolers, platters of hor d'oeuvres, a string quartet playing Christmas music, and of course pictures with Santa. Pretty fancy for a guy like me. Bush's economy hit, and they stopped that (and a lot of us were laid off anyway, and the branch of the company I worked for held on valiantly but still went under). They sold other Dillards' returns for a while, but it was just a jumbled mess, and they gave up. Alorica - some sort of inbound tech support center - took them over. Mervyn's went under, and Phoenix University put up a small branch there. I think the only "merchant" there anymore in a bowling alley.
Yep, the eight years of the Chimp brought nothing but poverty and want - in the words of Grandpa Jones, "deep dark depression, excessive misery". In the county where I live, unemployment during the Bushitler regime sometimes rose to nearly 3%. Thank goodness, since the jug-eared Kenyan took over, we are seeing rays of sunshine again.
MajorChode (1000+ posts) Sat Aug-08-09 11:07 PM
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10. Just about all the Sears, Macy's, Jc Penny, etc. dept stores do the same thing
Right now they are trying to clear out their summer inventory to make way for the fall stuff. When the fall stuff comes in, almost nothing will be on sale (except for the left over summer stuff). It's pretty standard fare for those types of retailers. Discount retailers like Target don't have as much margin, so they can't always put everything on sale.
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