Posted on 05/26/2014 10:54:28 AM PDT by blam
If theres one indicator of the state of the global economy its consumer purchasing on the retail level. And if theres one retail company to watch as a prelude to what comes next its always been Walmart. Known for low prices, low wages, and multi-billion dollar profits, the worlds largest retailer is struggling.
Not as mention of the jeg-eared POS at the helm over the last six years of this economic meltdown. Obamanomics at work, just as planned...
More and more people going to Galt’s Gulch?
Or maybe everyone is just shifting to shopping online. Duh.
Things aren’t going very well; that’s for sure. But this article contains a bit too much hyperbole for my liking.
Before long there will be no more private enterprise. We will all have to shop at government stores.
No more and more people are buying from Communist China.
Just saying.
Many stores closing in my area while LOTS of Liquor Stores and Thrift Stores are opening.
“Retail CEOs are not the sharpest tools in the shed. They were born on third base and thought they hit a triple.”
From personal experience, I have to agree - and not only in retail.
Wall Street will not allow an economic collapse to occur as long as Obama remains in office. I’ve been fully-invested since I made this realization and have profited handsomely.
I’ll start taking money off the table as the 2016 election approaches.
Wall Street will not allow an economic collapse to occur as long as Obama remains in office.
But it will happen in time to declare a national emergency ,declare martial, and suspend the 2016 elections.
That's six percent of sales, which is actually a commonly cited figure. The two things people buy most, food and fuel, can't be purchased online, and the increased cost of food and fuel is keeping them from purchasing much of anything else.
Re: “The inevitable shuttering of at least 3 billion square feet of retail space is a certainty.”
I live a half mile from an upscale mall.
They have just begun a $1 billion expansion/renovation (includes two 40 story condo buildings).
This is the heart of Microsoft country, straight east from Seattle.
Based on home prices, construction, and rents in my area, most people here seem to be in a very optimistic frame of mind.
The author makes a pretty compelling case for storm clouds and the approaching sound of thunder.
Not the kind of news I was hoping to hear as I approach my retirement years with limited savings and a modest outside income.
I try to stay out of Walmart because its clientele around here are far too often uncivilized jackholes.
This is a demographic problem and would be happening now in any case.
80 million Americans have passed through their highest spending years and into retirement or low-pay jobs.
Americans buy their biggest house on average at age 46. they buy vacations homes at 52.
Around 80 million Americans are between the ages of 50 and 68. They are leaving their spending and producing years and entering the push to save for retirement. At least, those who still have jobs and make enough to save something are doing so. Many have lost their retirement accounts to the depression, which is not yet half over.
The next generation is smaller and can’t help much since boomers and those following didn’t have many children. Most college grads can’t afford any house let alone the McMansions the Boomers need to sell.
Prepare and adapt, like always. Crisis is opportunity and most fortunes are made during depressions.
I can get anything I want (except for firearms) at a great price on Amazon, and usually shipped to my front door the next day for free.
Exactly....Obummer has 2 agenda’s..
As a black man (only half really) he desires every one be brought down to the level of those on the lowest rung economically, because then he feels no inferiority complex.
Secondly, he is following advice of his mentors Frank Marshall Davis and Alinsky....which basically wants no one to rise above any one else. Hard work or better intellect be damned.
We are witnessing results of Obummer’s efforts in living color and live action.
Shop near the end of the month, after the welfare checks have run out.
From what I've read, a good chunk of retiring baby boomers won't be able to afford more stuff and expensive hobbies. The same goes for people with large student loans.
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