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Macy's Announces 7,000 Job Cuts (Obama's Fault)
ABC News ^ | February 2, 2009 | Eleanor Hong, Scott Mayerowitz and Alice Gomstyn

Posted on 02/02/2009 1:15:57 PM PST by an amused spectator

The crumbling economy has taken its toll one of the largest department store chains, with Macy's announcing today that it will cut 7,000 jobs, about 4 percent of its workforce.

The company's cost-cutting measures include restructuring its retail divisions and reducing planned expenses. Macy's Inc. operates more than 840 department stores -- under Macy's and Bloomingdale's -- across the nation, with corporate offices located in New York and Cincinnati.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: economy; layoffs; macys; obamasfault; retail
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Morgan Stanley (up to 5% of its 47,000 strong workforce) & Goldman Sachs are also thinking about a SECOND round of job cuts.

Geez, maybe Hillary! knew something...

1 posted on 02/02/2009 1:15:58 PM PST by an amused spectator
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To: an amused spectator
Macy's Announces 7,000 Job Cuts

"Help is on the way!" --- Barack Hussein Obama November 2008

2 posted on 02/02/2009 1:17:13 PM PST by jla (Sarah! sarahpac.com)
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To: an amused spectator

What are we up to 150,000 announced in one week now?


3 posted on 02/02/2009 1:19:24 PM PST by autumnraine
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To: an amused spectator
It's Bush's Obama's Fault!


4 posted on 02/02/2009 1:25:08 PM PST by geo40xyz (BE PREPARED: Geo The Engineer says its HUSSEIN & the MSM fault for next 4 years:-))
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To: an amused spectator

Yeah. They DO need a miracle on 34th street.


5 posted on 02/02/2009 1:26:14 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama dozed.....people froze.)
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To: an amused spectator

Hate when jobs cuts are announced anywhere...hopefully these folks can find some employment soon


6 posted on 02/02/2009 1:26:56 PM PST by UCFRoadWarrior (The UnHoly Grail of Anti-Americanism: Illegal Aliens, Globalism, Free Trade, WTO, UN,)
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I'm sure all of these workers will be able to jump right into Zero's bridge-building infrastructure jobs.....
/rolls eyes
7 posted on 02/02/2009 1:28:29 PM PST by Mopp4
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To: jla

Either the numbskulls in DC don’t understand that the first thing they need to do is FIX the financial system, bring back confidence to commerce, and stop the bleeding OR they want this to happen for political reasons.
You pick.


8 posted on 02/02/2009 1:29:21 PM PST by griswold3 (a good story is more compelling than the search for truth)
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To: autumnraine

Didn’t Obama say he was going to create 3,000,000 jobs in his first year? Well, with the 150k losses, he’s up to 3,150,000 now with one month down. So he needs to create 286,364 new jobs every month for the next 11 months.

Better get busy.


9 posted on 02/02/2009 1:30:39 PM PST by Zeddicus
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Hate when jobs cuts are announced anywhere...hopefully these folks can find some employment soon

I'm with you FRiend, I'm still UE'd and looking. Doesn't look good.

I foresee a lot of, shall we say, unrest, coming very soon. I'm talking BITS. If you don't know what that means, see my homepage...

FMCDH(BITS)

10 posted on 02/02/2009 1:33:11 PM PST by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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Easy choice as far as I'm concerned. Marxism in this once great Republic just jumped on the fast track in a wink of an eye. Get ready. BITS on the horizon.

FMCDH(BITS)

11 posted on 02/02/2009 1:36:08 PM PST by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: an amused spectator

Guess they don’t need the extra Christmas help these days.


12 posted on 02/02/2009 1:37:06 PM PST by bgill
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To: autumnraine

I work there. Its been on the company website for months.


13 posted on 02/02/2009 1:37:46 PM PST by MamaTexan (I am not a political, public, collective, corporate, administrative or legal entity)
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To: nothingnew

Sorry. Translation, please?


14 posted on 02/02/2009 1:37:59 PM PST by griswold3 (a good story is more compelling than the search for truth)
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Hate when jobs cuts are announced anywhere...

I'm not liking the look of things. These kind of job cuts have a pebble-avalanche effect. I'm convinced neither the old crew nor the new crew had or have a clue.

hopefully these folks can find some employment soon

Amen to that, brother.

15 posted on 02/02/2009 1:40:01 PM PST by an amused spectator (Citizen Kenyan: Commander in The Effort Against Culturally-Influenced Misbehavior.)
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To: griswold3

See his home page.


16 posted on 02/02/2009 1:40:23 PM PST by an amused spectator (Citizen Kenyan: Commander in The Effort Against Culturally-Influenced Misbehavior.)
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To: jla

Move the corporate offices out these expensive cities... that would save a bundle..


17 posted on 02/02/2009 1:43:04 PM PST by JoanneSD (illegals represented without taxation.. Americans taxed without representation)
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To: an amused spectator

Underdog was the first to go. He hasn't been pulling his own weight in years.

18 posted on 02/02/2009 1:45:07 PM PST by SampleMan (Community Organizer: What liberals do when they run out of college, before they run out of Marxism.)
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To: JoanneSD
I've noticed something about dept. stores, (tell me if you haven't had the same experience), but a lot of their clerks are acting very similar to fast-food workers. Rude, apathetic, and disinterested in the customer.
Now, this attitude isn't as prevalent in dept stores as it is in fast-food places (which I rarely patronize), but I have seen a shift towards the negative.
19 posted on 02/02/2009 1:48:36 PM PST by jla (Sarah! sarahpac.com)
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I think ACORN might be able to fill all these jobs ....

We need change. Obama can change the world! Hope ! Change ! Marxism! Yes we can !!!

Price controls, Hostages, shortages, and lines are next .... change!!!!

20 posted on 02/02/2009 1:50:06 PM PST by PA-RIVER
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