Where is the Demand??!!??

So where did all that demand go?

#1 Oh, Woe, woe is me, and why is this happening to me?

#2 Well, sports & porn-satiated blokes and assorted pumpkin-heads!  How about middle-class America has been eviscerated???

#3 Or, how many more jobs are to be moved to Mexico and everywhere else with slave labor wages and no benefits to worry about paying enlightened and competent workers --- before anyone around here wakes up?

 #4 Where is Henry Ford who realized that your workers should be able to afford your products, when you really, really need him?

 

Comprende??

 So, do any of you guys get it yet??

As in Bedeee, Bedeee THAT's ALL FOLKS!!!!!

Dow 26,000, Here we come!! Yowweeee!!! 

As in:

 $$Millions more for me & my buds and fellowfreakin monsters from HELL ON THE UPPER EAST SIDE!!!!!!!!!!

&

Zippo for you schmucks!!!!!

 

 

J.C. Penney, Macy's to shutter dozens of stores, lay off scores of workers

Gary Strauss, USA TODAY 5:32 p.m. EST January 8, 2015

After posting holiday shopping sales on the high end of muted expectations,department store chains J.C. Penney and Macy's head into 2015 with a focus on smaller operations and fewer employees.
J.C. Penney JCP is shuttering 39 underperforming stores and laying off 2,250 workers, while Macy's announced a restructuring that will shift workers from 830 Macy's and Bloomingdale's stores and shutter 14 Macy's stores, which could cut up to 2,200 employees.
"Our business is rapidly evolving in response to changes in the way customers are shopping across stores, desktops, tablets and smartphones. We must continue to invest in our business to focus on where the customer is headed – to prepare for what's next," Macy's CEO Terry Lundgren said.
Macy's also announced a new 2016 Macy's store in Los Angeles and new Blomingdale's store to open in San Jose by late 2017.
The moves comes nearly a year after Lundgren announced 2,500 layoffs and five store closures in January 2014. … Penney said mall-based stores in 19 states will close by early April. Word of the store closures - which represent about 4% of the middle-market chain's stores - came just days … …
Troubled teen-centric Wet Seal said earlier this week that it would close 338 stores and lay off 3,700 employees in an effort to avoid a bankruptcy filing.
Consumer psychologist Kit Yarrow, author of Decoding the New Consumer Mind, says, "Retail is in a massive transformation period. Consumers have lost their enthusiasm for trolling through massive stores hunting for a bargain. They can do that online.
"The only big department stores that will remain relevant to consumers are those that are incorporate tricks and treats into the shopping mix — like product offerings you can't find online, special demonstration or sampling, cushy or fun relaxation areas."
J.C. Penney "is bloated with deteriorating real estate at a time when people want smaller, easier to navigate, technology-enhanced shopping experiences,'' Yarrow says.
"Poor Penney. I bet I'm not the only Boomer that really, really wants to shop there for the sake of their heritage, but can't," Yarrow says.