Well, it's stinky winky humid outside. You know what I'm talking about, when your clothing feels damp and sticky and clings like some sort of cotton cellophane. The wind is also picking up. Dark storm clouds are shortly supposed to let loose, the coming rain is supposed to reduce the humidity. Sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn't.
Retail was slow yesterday. I did manage to get a measure for blinds. We have a very good sale coming up for Memorial Day. Geez. I can't believe the holiday is upon us. Time does seem to be flying by. Not that our sales are going to be improving anytime soon. People seem to be, for the most part, simply fed up with the expense of home improvements. This is how American capitalism is supposed to work. People no longer pay the high prices and stop buying; businesses drop their prices to increase sales. The problem all too often, however, has been that corporations are simply saying "screw you, buy or do without." Still, it may be working. Recently both MacDonalds and Target have announced they were going to begin reducing prices. How much this effect overall pricing among retailers might be an economist's nightmare.
My new area rug arrives today. The yellow one. I did some prepping of the floor yesterday. I'm excited.
I have to use a different format for listing the chapters in the audio version of The Body on the Lawn. Rather than have to change format in my future books, I'm switching over now. This is how the table of contents is supposed to look.
Walmart announced hundreds of layoffs this week after years of hiking prices and raking in big profits.
ReplyDeleteThe Walton family's net worth reached $267 billion this year.
Corporate greed. Fire the little guy and line your pockets.
I thought you knew, Greed doesn't have a conscience.
DeleteNikki Haley and all of them have no backbone. They all go crawling back to him with talis between their legs. And the dump knows he could murder someone point blank and still get away with it...and they still support him. You obviously didn't like them and think he did a good job or you wouldn't have been running against him as a Republican primary candidate for president. That's the one thing I hate about most of those Republicans. There's really two things I can't stand about them, and it's their faces.
ReplyDeleteThey were concerned about her pulling votes, what they don't understand is those were protest voters, they didn't really like Nikki.
DeleteOh, Nimrata was gonna flip. She's got no backbone. Power. That's all they want.
ReplyDeleteAnd it's been nice here. Not too stormy and sunny these last days. I guess you guys got the rains...
I don't think a guilty verdict will sway the MAGAts. Maybe some repugs with some morals, but most of the base will stay with Von ShitzNpants. They are probably sending him money for some scam as I type, too.
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The cult will stay with him, they are a minority group, something they do not understand.
DeleteHaley must have got an offer of a high position by Trump she couldn’t refuse. Here’s hoping she gets screwed on his offer. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm betting it's either Secretary of State or VP, and don't worry, she will.
DeleteI'm no economist but surely if retailers choose to maintain their higher prices then not only will many people choose not to buy, but many people won't be able to afford to anyway! That's old lady economics but what do I know!
ReplyDeleteThat's how capitalism is supposed to work. Competition is supposed to keep prices low, however that is not always the case.
DeleteA guilty verdict will change nothing. The followers are totally in and will just double down. They’ve stayed through everything else and want to be proven right. What we are seeing is the ugly side of America being given permission to be as ugly as possible. Trump being the ugliest.
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