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Wal-Mart shares tumble on report of weak February sales
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| 2/15/2013
| Reuters
Posted on 02/15/2013 1:19:31 PM PST by mykroar
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To: Bigg Red
I find it puzzling that sales for a particular month can be tabulated and analyzed when that month is just barely half over. Dont they need to see the figures for the entire month?
Let me 'splain the retail industry to you. You are a highly paid, under-educated executive for a major big box chain. At the beginning of February you issue a confident report to your bosses that sales for this month will be "X". By mid-month the numbers are running 17 points behind "X". So you frantically start spinning it to blame the failure to meet "X" on anyone or anything other than your crappy prediction, otherwise you might not be around to set the sales target for March.
To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
payroll taxes = SS and MEDICARE
To: mykroar
Obama would be able to fix this, but he’s busy with golf lessons.
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posted on
02/15/2013 2:19:43 PM PST
by
Gator113
( REGISTER THE DAMN LIBERALS and leave my guns alone!!)
To: jiggyboy
Walmarts’s? The frozen pizzas or the refrigerated ones?
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posted on
02/15/2013 2:28:11 PM PST
by
ansel12
(Romney is a longtime supporter of homosexualizing the Boy Scouts (and the military).)
To: Buckeye McFrog
Yep, divisions set their plans up based upon these predictions. Division level buyers prepare, and local level management all schedule their labor based upon this as well. It has huge implications for being this far off.
To: mykroar
I’m in Retail, too - and our sales have been slower this month, but we’ve had some pretty horrific weather this winter, which is part of it. Oh, and people are losong jobs, losing homes and they’re broke.
As for Wal-Mart, I blame myself. I haven’t been to Wal-Mart in a month. Because...wait for it...
I’M BROKE!
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posted on
02/15/2013 2:34:17 PM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
To: Hattie
I agree about the quality of their produce. Plus I spend too much money when I shop at WM. Having so much under one roof makes it hard to stick to buying just the basic food items.
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posted on
02/15/2013 2:37:03 PM PST
by
Prince of Space
(Be Breitbart, baby. LIFB.)
To: miliantnutcase
Spent some years in the biz and every month, every quarter, the general reaction out there at store level was “whoever made the sales projections must have been smoking crack!”
To: mykroar
how unexpected!
I am sure Obama will get right on this! (right after he gets back from his latest vacation and golfing trip)
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posted on
02/15/2013 2:39:04 PM PST
by
TexasFreeper2009
(Obama lied .. the economy died.)
To: Hattie
The produce at Walmart is often rotten or pretty close to it. I do some of my grocery shopping there and some at Target. Kroger can be overpriced...some items cost more than twice what they would elsewhere, so I buy only certain things from them. Boy, do I miss Harris Teeter.
The other day, I stopped at Walmart to pick up some hair color because Target was out. Walmart had the color I wanted, but I didn’t get it because the boxes were dented, beat-up, ragged, and some were half-opened.
The cosmetic section was in a similar condition. Nail polish bottles and lipsticks had been opened and the products smeared all over the fixtures.
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posted on
02/15/2013 2:43:20 PM PST
by
CatherineofAragon
(Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization)
To: mykroar
they just built a new one by me so I stopped in to purchase some ammo,shelves empty, went to garden section to purchase holder for garden hose, nobody could find any in the whole store. Left and went to ace hardware to get hose hanger went home.
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posted on
02/15/2013 2:45:04 PM PST
by
bikerman
(Gun control does nothing to stop gun violence. But then, Washington specializes in the art of doing)
To: mykroar
I bet Walmart sales have dropped because the roaring economy has sent everyone over to Bloomingdale’s,dahling!
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posted on
02/15/2013 2:53:48 PM PST
by
griswold3
(Big Government does not tolerate rivals.)
To: jiggyboy
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posted on
02/15/2013 3:15:16 PM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! -Ps80)
To: Tea Party Terrorist
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posted on
02/15/2013 3:16:03 PM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! -Ps80)
To: american_ranger
Okay, thanks for the information.
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posted on
02/15/2013 3:17:01 PM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! -Ps80)
To: aomagrat
If they had any ammo in stock maybe their sales would have been higher. LOL!! That's actually a really good, indisputable point.
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posted on
02/15/2013 3:42:03 PM PST
by
Hardastarboard
(The Liberal ruling class hates me. The feeling is mutual.)
To: Buckeye McFrog
The grocery chain I used to work for calculated their labor by “sales per man hour” and the more successful your store was somehow the less labor you got the next year...
To: aomagrat
If they had any ammo in stock maybe their sales would have been higher.I went in a few days ago and they were out of everything except shotgun shells. The weird this is they got in one ammo can of .223,
which was snatched up instantly, of course. Considering they didn't even have a 50 round carton of the stuff, it seemed strange.
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posted on
02/15/2013 4:01:33 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?)
To: ansel12
Refrigerated. They have three or four kinds and I think three sizes. I think the prices range from like five bucks to maybe ten bucks.
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posted on
02/15/2013 4:02:44 PM PST
by
jiggyboy
(Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: ansel12
Ah here we go, I should have thought about a picture before I posted earlier.
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posted on
02/15/2013 4:05:43 PM PST
by
jiggyboy
(Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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