[ideablitz]

every year, it's the same story.

[Cobra64]

"Over the weekend 133 million Americans shopped..."

Fine with me. Our family stayed home and ate turkey and roast beef sandwiches. Being pushed around by a bunch of smelly, ill-mannered, tatooed, pierced slime is not our idea of "shopping." We guess we're "old fashioned" at the croney old age of 53. Malls, in our opinion is for junkies and dolts. Few have manners. Most are rude, crude, and unrefined. We've seen spitting, blowing snot, skate-boarding... pathetic environment of smell and inexusable behavior. IMOHO

[weegee]

The left ran an active campaign to boycott Friday sales. They had a total economic boycott (BUY NOTHING DAY) plan and encouraged others to do likewise.

DemonRats really do not support America. They want economic forecasts to be "bad" so that they can continue to bitch and whine about President Bush.

In economics class, you will occassionally learn about leftist protest plans to withdraw all of their funds from a bank on a certain day.

How about everyone in the Western Hemisphere coordinate a time and we will all "jump" onto the Earth at the same time? Maybe we should all flush our toilets at the same time for s***ts and grins.

[weegee]

HOUSTON PING

[weegee]

Cristina Acuna, a manager at Cactus Music & Video, said sales may be better this year compared with last, partly because of some big music releases.

But but but I thought that the internet was KILLING CD sales. You mean another re-issue of the Beatles' early albums will still help the stores to make the bottom line?

Also perhaps the fear that the stock market would turn down under a Kerry presidency has passed. No election related terrorist strike occurred either.

People can close the purstrings when there is some doubt to the future of this nation.

[sr4402]

"I think the start was very mixed," said Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates, a national retail consulting and investment banking firm in New York.

When is it not mixed? When is there there any good news that Howard doesn't have to offset with bad news? I.E. that high end retailers did well relative to last year?

The answer is, when the democrats are in power. Then it will be a 'banner' year 'exceptional' sales and 'historic' records.

Lamestream media, may they go the way of the winds and be forgotten.

[Savvysearcher]

I think you're missing the bigger picture which has more to do about an economy with increasing debt and decreasing spending. Is there no one in here who is educated?

[gieriscm]

I hate crowds, so I did most of my shopping online or from catalogs. The UPS, FedEx, and USPS drivers must have my address memorized by now.

[mewzilla]

People who want cheap, want really, really cheap. And in a recovering economy maybe fewer people wanted cheap. Note to Wally...

[Ladysmith]

The well-to-do have money to burn, he said, while a family of four with a $40,000 income is "pressed tremendously" because of rising gas prices and health care costs.

Oh really? How about stinkin' taxes for everything under the moon?

Blows me away how so many either can't see or ignore this factor.