The radio is urging late shoppers to get to the stores “because there might not be much inventory to choose from”.
Attention “laggard” shoppers! Those 5AM “running of the bulls” Black Fridays left behind only returned merchandise i.e. odd-size or irregular.
Good news for merchants! Bad news for shoppers.
With average birth rate down from 4.8 in the late 60’s to 2.6 in 2008, we still have more than 6 billion bodies to be fed and clothed. The answer: people are living longer.
Kindle should have large read-out and easy-bookmark.
Dreamliner (air), Oasis (sea) and China’s bullet train (land) are competing for senior dollars. So are Vegas, Macau and Monte Carlo.
I live right behind a golf accessories store. There must be a huge market for golf cart, club, balls and shirts.
Audition is still open for a new spoke person at Accenture (now that Tiger is out, at the cost of 12 B dollars in damage).
I am a few chapters into “Sonic Boom” by Gregg Easterbrook. It’s a 2009 version of “the World is Flat”.
But it was written with larger trends in mind, amidst the uncertainty of the 2008 Recession.
CEO’s are trying to forget 2009 (and take a “wait & see” attitude toward 2010).
Can’t blame them. They are doing OK with existing worker’s productivity.
Retail sales numbers are up, and this will only continue, because (shopping) habits die-hard, V or W recovery.
After all, they don’t ship silk and perfume across the globe for the rich only.
They ship toys and frozen dinners for Dollar stores as well. Containers need to be filled up somehow.
My daughter notices that her Clifford (big red toy dog) was made in China.
And she goes to Elementary in West Palm Beach. Aren’t we inter-connected or not!
At least she got a hold of one. From what I heard on the radio, there aren’t that much inventory left for late shoppers.
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Thang Nguyen 555 