Tanking Badly

 Okay, we're just one degree below freezing.  Today's high is supposedly going to be about 7 degrees higher.  Oh, and we're expecting rain, too.  In fact, showers are in the forecast for the next 2 days.  Then the temps are supposed to drop again.  Our high temperatures appear to be trending in the upper 30s (F) for the next two weeks with occasional days when they will be either much higher or much lower.  Right now we seem to be tracking with a winter that's similar to last year, then previous years.

I did work yesterday.  It was slow, though I did have a sale... with a truly terrible markdown because my supervisor told him that we would honor a promotion after it expired.  True, she didn't know he was going to wait 20 days after the promotion to purchase his install.  How much was the markdown?  $910 plus change.  Even though I told the customer that he needed to purchase as soon as possible, he delayed, and always quoted my supervisor.  Perhaps she should have put some restrictions on her promise.  She might actually get written up for her words.

And the store was really slow yesterday.  It's going to be slow today.  It's the season, the slowness came early this year.  Evidently Friday, the day after Christmas, the store was somewhat busy in the morning, and then dead.  In the past, this would have been a very busy day with people returning unneeded gifts and using gift cards.  This is not a good thing.

And someone has had a rough time since Christmas morning.

One thing people need to remember is that Democrats create jobs, Republicans create billionaires.  These two things are not the same.  Tariffs will always be passed onto the consumer no matter what.  For a corporation to "eat" a tariff, they would basically have to accept a cut in revenue, or to put this more simply, they would need to take a "cut in pay."  Billionaires and billionaire corporations are neither beneficent nor benevolent.  One of the main reasons is that Wall Street hates both benevolence and beneficence.  To satisfy the appetite of their investors, corporations will continually raise costs until consumer's stop buying.  That's happening now.  Affordability is not only important, affordability is essential in order to keep our daily lives running smoothly.  Get ready, because once the fiscal year ends and Wall Street will begin to react negatively once corporations start releasing their less than stellar profits.  Will corporations lower prices so consumers buy more?  Absolutely not.  They will cut payroll hours and lay people off.  Corporations would rather cut payroll expenses than cut prices.  Get ready for things to tank... badly.