12-25-2013, 10:13 PM
My wife is a florist. This is the 3rd largest, and most prolonged, selling season for flowers. Holiday flower & plant sales are down 20% from last year. However, funerals made up for it for a 14% sales gain.
Malls around here have been slower than usual.
However, UPS and FedEx delivery guys that deliver to my office say they were working until 8 or 9 every night and all weekend.
Mom & Pop stores in our chamber of commerce have been complaining of a slow Christmas.
I Christmas shopped on the 22nd & 23rd at about 10pm at Walmart & T.J. Maxx around here and the stores were dead.
Take that for what it's worth.
Malls around here have been slower than usual.
However, UPS and FedEx delivery guys that deliver to my office say they were working until 8 or 9 every night and all weekend.
Mom & Pop stores in our chamber of commerce have been complaining of a slow Christmas.
I Christmas shopped on the 22nd & 23rd at about 10pm at Walmart & T.J. Maxx around here and the stores were dead.
Take that for what it's worth.
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“While the dividend itself is merely a rearrangement of equity, over time it's more like owning an apple tree. The tree grows the apples back again and again and again, and the theoretical value of the tree doesn't change just because of when the apples are about to fall.” - earthtodan