I asked my dad Garnett Phibbs how he felt tonight watching the first black man successfully running for President of the USA. He said, “I couldn’t be happier – proud as a peacock.” He added, “Nobody even remembers that King wasn’t even allowed to vote in 1963 when he gave the “I Have A Dream” speech.”
Fire the Carol Anderson’s of the world for your own sake. If you are Carol, get some help. We all have a cousin who’s getting a divorce, or a father in a hospital bed alone, sick and yet we can’t change the inevitable, have an autistic child, a suicidal family member, fill in the blank – we don’t need you to bring your drama and bad attitude into our lives on a daily basis. Cynicism isn’t funny or something to be tolerated in this day and age.
U.S. sales of previously owned homes rose a healthy 3.1% in July from the previous month. Existing-home sales increased to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of five million units, the highest since February, the National Association of Realtors said Monday. The increase was foreshadowed by a rise in the number of signed contracts in the [...]
Fire ‘em or risk only selling the markdowns. A lack mentality is deadly when your customer base is being challenged. That’s true of any business from an airport concession, Lord & Taylor or western wear store.
Philadelphia’s upscale specialty retailer continued to defy the consumer downturn, thrilling investors with a 79 percent increase in second-quarter profits. The profit surge came off a 30 percent increase in sales, which reached $454 million, compared with $348 million a year ago. Customers bought a lot of merchandise at original prices — not on clearance racks [...]
Because only if you are willing to connect the dots from the promise you pay megabucks for agencies to create and the actuality your customers experience, is your money wisely being spent. If not, you’re just Macy’s with a different widget to sell–putting lipstick on a pig.
If you look deep enough in July retail sales, you find that sales at department stores and other general merchandise stores rose 0.3%. Sales at furniture stores, hurt by the slump in housing, rose 1% in July.
Hey, it’s marketing – it’s all smoke and mirrors. Who doesn’t realize magazine ads are airbrushed to reduce wrinkles, add abs or reduce waists? TV is entertainment – not reality as much as we sometimes believe.
And here we are in the 21st century being told (since 2006 thank you very much CNN) that the economy is slowing –no matter how the numbers differ from projections, they keep saying it. Almost as if to make us lose hope. And many have.
We’ve settled for despair.
