Don’t worry if you haven’t started your Christmas shopping yet. You’ll have plenty of time to get it all done before Tuesday as long as you don’t need to sleep…
The record may be set on the East Coast, where many Macy’s stores in the greater New York area will remain open for 83 consecutive hours. The Macy’s in Queens Center Mall will unlock its doors at 7 a.m. Thursday and not close them until 6 p.m. Monday — 107 hours later.
“There’s a lot of desperation out there,” said Candace Corlett, a principal at WSL Strategic Retail, a strategy firm. “This is a weird, wacky holiday.”
And not necessarily a happy one for retail companies…
High gasoline prices, the slowing housing market, rising mortgage payments and a gyrating stock market have taken their toll. The cost of filling gas tanks particularly has “sucked up the discretionary money from so many wallets,” Corlett said…
Shouldn’t you be doing your patriotic bit to keep the American economy afloat? Get out there and spend!
Is buying stuff from the Interwebitubes free of tax helping our poor economy? If so, I halped.
Or, you could do something positive for your health… and not shop. No one needs all this stuff. Stop fueling the madness.
I do all of my shopping at the bank. I still have plenty of time.
Shopping will not help anything for the long term. It’s just a way to give your hard-earned dollars to the corporations that rule our world and accumulate stuff, most of which you’ll never even use.
http://www.storyofstuff.com/
If you must get involved in the gift-giving orgy of the holiday season, consider this or something similar instead.
http://www.justgive.org/
#4- Agree with that and add a “or have an opportunity to use ’cause you’ll be working to keep what’s left of the country floating.”
I’m doing some Make-a-Wish stuff.
I’ll shop if the govt gives me the money to do it – can I get that added into the spending bill, kthx
My boss handed me a wad of cash and said “Merry Christmas”, so I ran to my computer and ordered him his Christmas present: The Bourne Trilogy. He’d been dropping some heavy hints about borrowing mine, triggering visions of peanut butter covered discs (kids!), so I presented him his very own copy. Thirty bucks and change, my entire Christmas shopping expenditure.
Aw, you should have gotten him the Tremors Attack Pack (all four movies in one case), for $15. The Bourne saga might give him ideas. Megalomania wise.
‘High gasoline prices, the slowing housing market, rising mortgage payments and a gyrating stock market have taken their toll. The cost of filling gas tanks…’
Not to mention the out of control price of health care and medications, in the US (unlike in other countries). Which is my point. This rarely ever GETS mentioned. As if it has no significant effect on the economy. Bull-crap it doesn’t! But NOT acknowledging it, by most media, keeps it from being remedied. And the politicos don’t have to deal with it.