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12-14-23 05:23 #13784
Posts: 5427Yes, we know about your and bad retail managers' bullshit
Originally Posted by MarquisdeSade1 [View Original Post]
https://www.statista.com/statistics/...sa-since-1990/
But there is also plenty of data to suggest many retail managers are blaming convenient "boogymen" for shrinkage and retail losses incurred due to their own mismanagement, poor marketing and incompetence in the face of competition heightened by, yep say it with me, Trump's Pandemic. Lolol.
Stores say shoplifting is a national crisis. The numbers dont back it up.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/18/busin...ens/index.html
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But the retail industrys own figures on shrink cast doubt on their claim that the problem is ballooning. Researchers say retailers may be blaming theft for losses when they dont actually know the cause.
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But, in fact, the average shrink rate as a percentage of sales dropped to 1.4% in 2021 from 1.6% in 2020, according to the latest NRF survey. That number has hovered around 1.4% for more than a decade.
Whatever the numbers say, though, retailers maintain that organized retail crime has gotten worse.
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Companies and law enforcement experts say the growth of online shopping has allowed criminals to quickly find ways resell stolen merchandise on online marketplaces like Amazon. Retailers have pushed legislation during the pandemic that would crack down on websites reselling stolen goods.
Organized retail crime is just one component of retailers inventory losses. Its not the largest and is a lower percentage of overall shrink than it was five years ago, according to the NRF surveys.
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Many brick-and-mortar chains are under pressure from Amazon and other competitors. They have struggled with higher costs for labor, transportation, and other expenses during the pandemic, as well as supply chain challenges.
They have more control over shrink than some of these other forces, retail researchers say.
In an environment where youre looking for any improvement, shrink becomes an area to attack because of all the other costs rising, said Ray Wimer, a professor of retail practice at Syracuse University.
It's also easier for companies and the public to blame theft for store closures and retail struggles than admit stores over-expansion, strategy mistakes and customers abandoning stores for online shopping, said Jonathan Simon, a criminal justice professor at UC Berkeley School of Law.
Its much more convenient if we can blame it on people we already consider reprehensible, he said.
In a major shift, Walgreens, which said it saw a spike in shrink during the pandemic and cited organized retail crime in its decision to close five San Francisco stores in 2021, is backtracking.
(See link for more)
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12-14-23 03:13 #13783
Posts: 5427Well, so much for that piddling trillion Repubs hope you'll think they saved the USA
Aside from the easily predictable massive increase in the deficit once today's Repub Pink Smaller and Smaller All The Time Tinkle House gets fully on track reinforcing and celebrating their lord and savior Trump's most disastrous economy-crippling "achievements", we must include this as their own remarkable "achievement" in taking money out of the pockets of the American taxpayer and skyrocketing their deficits.
Debt ceiling brinksmanship has clear negative effects on taxpayers.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/d...-on-taxpayers/
THE DEBT
The High Cost of Debt Ceiling Brinksmanship.
https://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2017/...-Brinksmanship
Debt ceiling showdown "was incredibly costly" to U.S., economic expert says.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/debt-ce...esident-biden/
LOL. It is hilarious that anyone could point to one utterly irrelevant benefit for no one by their reducing the investment of provable recovery measures and therefore delaying the recovery from Trump's Repub Economic Disaster as a "savings" while they are also rabid proponents and practitioners of favorite Repub Party moves that genuinely cost America and American taxpayers more money, produce higher deficits and, oh as an added bonus for Repubs, provides at least a Trillion Dollars in free publicity and positive press for every anti-democratic authoritarian dictator and wannabe authoritarian dictator on the planet. Every time they do it. As this current Repub Loon House has done.
Shades of the usual Repub Party scam of dangling disproportionately greater tax cuts for top income margins and corporations but with the price of that ticket being another Great Repub Depression / Great Repub Recession and Massive Job Destruction, of course. It is such a blatant, woefully obvious misdirection con. But they get away with doing it as long as their benefactors in Mainstream Media continue to insinuate that their beloved Repub candidates probably "handle the economy better than Democrats."
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12-14-23 01:31 #13782
Posts: 2579More bullshit
"Yep. Wallgreens' management got busted on that BS by its own executive, its own data and police data:
Algreens backpedals on theft concerns.
Jan. 9, 2023.
https://www.axios.com/local/san-fran...edals-on-theft".
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/...eft-and-fraud/
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12-13-23 20:13 #13781
Posts: 5427Really?
Originally Posted by Tiny12 [View Original Post]
Repub policies and stewardship have never led to smaller government and lower deficits. Ever. Great Repub Depressions, Great Repub Recessions and Massive Repub Jobs Destruction simply do not produce those kind of results.
LOL. Have you also forgotten it was the iconic Repub lord and savior of this very loony Repub Pink Smaller and Smaller All The Time Tinkle House, the 91 count indicted felony former so-called potus they are desperate to put back in the WH who, more than any other human being on the planet, created the very conditions that produced the Trillions upon Trillions in Deficits we have today while you are apparently only counting a piddling Trillon or so of it that they supposedly subtracted from the necessary recovery measures for his horrific economic and national security policies and stewardship? Which, again, they are desperately trying to assist him in repeating for another 4 years?
Lolol.
Lolol.
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12-13-23 19:38 #13780
Posts: 1807Originally Posted by Spidy [View Original Post]
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12-13-23 19:36 #13779
Posts: 1807Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
Originally Posted by Tiny12 [View Original Post]
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12-13-23 15:27 #13778
Posts: 1102The world is full of anti-LGBTQ "BCD bangers"
Originally Posted by Tiny 12 [View Original Post]
And don't be so frickin' naive!
The world (and history) is full of men (and women), that will gladly fuck the "L-G-B-T to the Q", behind closed doors (BCD), and yet openly in public, denounce and declare "war" against said group of people.
Republicans Christian and Bridget Ziegler are a great example of said hypocrisy. That is why I called Christian Ziegler, an adulterer, cheater, LGBTQ hypocrite, liar and all-around phony.
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12-13-23 04:22 #13777
Posts: 5427Working for their pay is anathema to Repub politicians. For positive results, that is
Originally Posted by Tiny12 [View Original Post]
This current Repub Pink Smaller and Smaller All The Time Tinkle House has won the Silver Medal this year in the Most Do Nothing Congress Olympics. The All Repub Congress of the All Repub Repub Great Depression retains its place on the platform as Gold Medal Winner but only by a nose. And I suspect Repub Cry-Baby Speaker (no) Boner that presided under Obama and whose mission along with Repub Senate Leader Moscow Mitch was to Do Nothing and leave all the heavy lifting and political risk-taking to Obama-Biden and the other Dems to pull us and the rest of the world out of the Historic Repub Economic Crash and Near Great Repub Depression their Repub policies and stewardship created and handed to incoming Obama-Biden to fix must have a slew of Bronze Medals on that particular Olympic event:
The Least Productive Congress Since The Great Depression.
Nov. 15, 2023
https://news.yahoo.com/least-product...013501789.html
With only 21 bills making it into law halfway into November, the 118th Congress, controlled by Republicans in the House and Democrats in the Senate, is on the most sluggish pace to make law since the Congress that met during 1931 and 1932.
Back then, Herbert Hoover was president, the Great Depression had started and talking movies were still new.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), part of a group in the House that has stopped several spending bills from advancing to the Senate, saw his frustration boil over on the House floor Wednesday.
"One thing. I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing one! that I can go campaign on and say we did, he said. Anybody sitting in the complex, if you want to come down to the floor and come explain to me, one meaningful, significant thing the Republican majority has done.
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12-13-23 04:01 #13776
Posts: 2579God is a Republican ROTFLMMFAO
"I hate to break this to you, but God is a Republican. You're a good man EihTooms. And I want you to be prepared when you meet your maker.
I too will continue to pursue the work I was sent into this world to do, that is, converting Democrats to small government, free market liberalism.
You're a really tough nut to crack, and it will be quite a feather in my cap if I can bring you around. It would be like converting Mohammed to be a Methodist. I'll keep trying. "
I'm a militant atheist, but if there was a god I'm sure he wouldn't be a democrat, which are a bunch of evil baby killers.
And most republicans that would rather permanently destroy the Globes natural environment and enslave the entire planet for an extra 0. 025% return on investment.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/...on-by-country/
Are you drunk again? ET a good man? WTF you've obviously never met him LMAO.
But I digress, if there was a GOD I'm sure he would be more akin to Siddhartha or King Trump.
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12-13-23 03:01 #13775
Posts: 2579Appointed by no less than GOD Himself
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023...-is-jesus.html
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...9-points-2020/
Our Lord and Savior is returning from Exile to save Western Civilization and humanity from the likes of ET and Tiny.
The Messiah is Rising and warming up for a bigger and better 2nd act, buckle up cupcakes!!
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12-13-23 00:40 #13774
Posts: 1807Originally Posted by Spidy [View Original Post]
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12-13-23 00:18 #13773
Posts: 1807Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
I too will continue to pursue the work I was sent into this world to do, that is, converting Democrats to small government, free market liberalism.
You're a really tough nut to crack, and it will be quite a feather in my cap if I can bring you around. It would be like converting Mohammed to be a Methodist. I'll keep trying.
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12-12-23 23:04 #13772
Posts: 2579GOD aka MAGA is GREAT
"Nope. It isn't any "magical" factor like merely the Party of the elected officials in office at a given time when a given result occurs. It is about the legislation passed and stewardship performed by the member of that Party and avoiding doing really dangerous and stupid things. As I have pointed out and substantiated over and over and over again. But apparently not often enough. So I will continue to point it out and substantiate it again and again. Not that I want to. But obviously I need to. LOL.
Hey, maybe the growing crime rates all through the Repub Nixon / Ford years and into the Carter years would have declined dramatically and steadily if only Joe Biden had been a more seasoned, mature, knowlegable, experienced and influential Senator in those years as he was by 1994 and was as a VP under Obama and is now as POTUS. Also, Carter had a much more damaging "thief" to tackle and tame in his 4 years in office than was happening with backyard fence latches being broken and other property crimes, namely the climbing Hyper-Inflation he inherited from his Repub predecessors and that he most definitely had solved months and months and months before Reagan took office.
At least those rates were on the decline in Carter's fourth year in office and that decline is what Reagan inherited from him in 1981. They sure didn't go anywhere but sideways through 12 years of Reagan and Bush1. The serious decline began and continued only after Clinton, Biden and the Dem Congress legislated, repeat, egislated repeat, LEGISLATEDa policy and followed that up with proper stewardship of the details that produced that result. Which is commonly referred to as "work" by elected officials. And that is anathema to Repubs, of course.
Seriously, have you all this time really thought it was all about the "magic" of being a Dem that produced those historic positive results and some "witch's curse" in being a Repub that produced their horrific results? LOL. Clearly, my work is not nearly over. ".
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/20...-hike-tariffs/
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12-12-23 13:29 #13771
Posts: 5427Nope
Originally Posted by Tiny12 [View Original Post]
Hey, maybe the growing crime rates all through the Repub Nixon / Ford years and into the Carter years would have declined dramatically and steadily if only Joe Biden had been a more seasoned, mature, knowlegable, experienced and influential Senator in those years as he was by 1994 and was as a VP under Obama and is now as POTUS. Also, Carter had a much more damaging "thief" to tackle and tame in his 4 years in office than was happening with backyard fence latches being broken and other property crimes, namely the climbing Hyper-Inflation he inherited from his Repub predecessors and that he most definitely had solved months and months and months before Reagan took office.
At least those rates were on the decline in Carter's fourth year in office and that decline is what Reagan inherited from him in 1981. They sure didn't go anywhere but sideways through 12 years of Reagan and Bush1. The serious decline began and continued only after Clinton, Biden and the Dem Congress legislated, repeat, legislated, repeat, LEGISLATED a policy and followed that up with proper stewardship of the details that produced that result. Which is commonly referred to as "work" by elected officials. And that is anathema to Repubs, of course.
Seriously, have you all this time really thought it was all about the "magic" of being a Dem that produced those historic positive results and some "witch's curse" in being a Repub that produced their horrific results? LOL. Clearly, my work is not nearly over.
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12-12-23 12:53 #13770
Posts: 5427Glad you brought that up. Thanks.
Originally Posted by Tiny12 [View Original Post]
Walgreens backpedals on theft concerns.
Jan. 9, 2023
https://www.axios.com/local/san-fran...edals-on-theft
Walgreens may have overblown concerns about retail theft at its stores, an executive said on a recent earnings call.
What's happening: "Maybe we cried too much last year," the pharmacy chain's chief financial officer, James Kehoe, said on last Thursday's call with investors.
Kehoe noted the shrink rate inventory lost due to theft, fraud or damage decreased from over 3% a year ago to about 2.5% in the second half of 2022, Insider reports.
Flashback: In October 2021, Walgreens announced it was closing five San Francisco stores due to "organized retail crime" in the city.
The following month, San Francisco Police Department data showed the five stores set to close had fewer than an average of two reported shoplifting incidents a month since 2018.
Yes, but: Not all crimes are reported to authorities, especially if they are minor.
Why it matters: The Walgreens announcement was a key rallying point for San Franciscans who successfully pushed for the recall of then-District Attorney Chesa Boudin.
The recent statements could also show that Walgreens' closures were more tied to a shifting retail industry and efforts to cut costs, which Bloomberg reported years ago.