Of course they are holiday trees not Christmas trees.
The problem is, anymore anything which Americans buy, there is only a small portion of the cost which actually stays in America.
Most everything is made now, in China.
That is where all the profits are going. To China.
Bring back jobs to America.
Ya Think?
The feds can try to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, but what I see and hear every day tells me those economic statistics are bogus.
I don’t shop for clothes these days because 99 percent of what is for sale is junk and mostly obscene.
I used to be a big J.C. Penney shopper. I’m 6’5”, and JCP used to have a good selection of tall clothing. Their stores have turned to shit. I never go there anymore. I buy almost everything online now, or at Fry’s. The only time I go to a mall is to get my wife some perfume for Christmas.
First one I used toward an $11 purchase. I may have spent more but there was no help around the back of the store (or anywhere else on the huge floor, for that matter). I needed some help in the linens department, but no one was around.....so I just went up front and checked out.
It's a disaster....Kohl's isn't the only store with not enough help. I see it wherever I go...and with me it's "no service, no sale". I'm not walking around an entire far-flung floor just to look for clerks when I know there aren't any, anyhow.
I feel bad about all this, but I think we've all seen it coming for a long time. Empty malls, boarded-up shops in every single strip mall, not enough check-out clerks, empty parking lots, only chain restaurants left.....and we're stuck with a lying, deceitful, anti-business administration wielding illegal powers as it plots our total economic destruction.
Leni
Well, as far as Kohls goes, they used to make quality clothing. Now their stuff is tissue-paper-thin cheap junk.
Also, my local Kohls has become the messiest garbage dump I’ve ever seen. Clothing is strewn all over the tops of the racks and litters the floor in heaps. If you go to one of the shelves to look for a tee shirt, they’re all balled up and thrown around, and the one style you’re looking for will be strewn among several fixtures.
I just don’t bother with the place anymore.
I quit reading at “the interwebs”.
I shop online at Kohl’s. Have two teens & husband. Plus household items.
I only buy IF it on sale.
I only buy IF I have a 30% coupon.
I usually only buy when they have 10.00 Kohl’s Cash per 50.00 spent.
I only buy when free shipping.
And I go through ebates or mrrebates to boot and I think that recently bumped up from 4% to 8% on one of them.
How can they possibly be in good shape after all that?
And . . . IF it is a larger order . . . it might arrive in 5, 8 or even 10 different shipments. YIKES. Their shipping budget must be crazy bloated.
And I buy name brand stuff like NIKE, and NCAA or NFL etc. etc. items for the kids that I can’t usually find on sale elsewhere so it is a good deal for me.
I’d NEVER EVER buy Kohl’s stock.
Clothing stores would take even more of a hit if manufacturers coukd get their crap together. First either standardize sizes or just publish actual dimensions. I don’t care what size you call it, just let me know what the real, unstretched length, chest size or shoe size is. Similarly find a standard way of descibing color and fabric thickness. If the could do those I would hardly need to go to a clothes store again. I only go because clothing is so different from store to store or even piece to piece.
Of course they are holiday trees not Christmas trees.
Services like retail depend on a large, domestic manufacturing base as differentiated from American-”based” manufacturing on foreign soil. The debt regime goes on but not for long.