U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings, 01 – 04 February 2015: “All good things come to an end.” Yet another women’s clothing chain bites the big one!

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

California: Reports coming in that San Jose based ebay, and its soon to be sold off electronic payment processor PayPal, began laying off employees.  In Palmdale, taxsucker Lockheed Martin issued a WARN saying 74 people will become unemployed in March.  Japan owned Sony Pictures issued a WARN saying they […] Continue Reading…

Sears & Kmart closing update, 17 February 2015: Profit making Kmart to shutdown? Taxpayers forced to eat $1.8-million!

Sears Auto Center is holding a contest for the city with the most potholes, why?  Because it means big bucks for them repairing wheel alignments and tires: “The city that records the most submissions will receive an exclusive deal on alignment services for their pothole-ridden city at the end of the program at nearby […] Continue Reading…

World War 3 Afghanistan, 11 – 15 February 2015: Iran attacks? Obama backs off troop withdrawal! USAID spends more big bucks on vague ‘women’s’ programs!

Farah Province: The provincial police chief is accusing Iranian border police of attacking Afghan workers who crossed into Iran.  The police boss says Iranian police took away most of the Afghans, but his personnel were able to recover the body of one person who was killed. The police administrator gave no other details, but many […] Continue Reading…

Sears & Kmart update, 16 February 2015: 10-thousand jobs killed off by Tesco, is Kmart’s new president to blame? Kmart gets rid of Super K, get ready for K-Fresh!

In Warner Robins, Georgia, it’s been revealed that plans to replace the Kmart were already in place before Sears Holdings made the announcement last Summer.   So the whole thing was a deal between Sears Holdings and Texas based At Home (formerly known as Garden Ridge).  By the way, the new At Home store still […] Continue Reading…

U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings, 30 – 31 January 2015: “How can human beings that have given so much be cast aside?” More proof it’s not the internet! Disney kills hundreds of jobs! No more RyKrisp!

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Japan based video game maker Sega Sammy said it will push 300 employees to “voluntarily retire”, that includes employees in the United States!

Alabama: Cafe and market V.Richards shutting down, the store owner made the decision suddenly saying he will chase “other ventures”.

Arizona: What real estate market recovery?  The […] Continue Reading…

U.S., Mexico & Canada Measles, 15 February 2015: New mystery outbreak in Wisconsin community that’s 94% vaccinated! Christians locked down! Most California 7th graders 95% – 100% vaccinated!

Canada

Ontario has 11 cases of measles.  Of note is that none of the infected Canadians traveled outside Ontario.  It has been confirmed that at least one of the infected adults, in the Greater Toronto Area, had been vaccinated for measles!

Manitoba health administrators report an infant is infected.  The infant is too young for full […] Continue Reading…

U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings, 27 – 29 January 2015: “Was the writing on the wall? Certainly!” No more Bonnie Bell! The new employee bonus; getting fired? Another women’s clothing chain goes down! Big Blue begins big layoffs!

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

Alabama: U.S. Steel issued a massive WARN saying 16-hundred Fairfield employees are on notice that layoffs could happen at any time!  The market conditions are so bad that U.S. Steel administrators say they cannot predict exactly how many people will become jobless, or when it will happen. […] Continue Reading…

Albertsons Vons Safeway update, 14 February 2015: Stores being used to spread Measles?

Ventura County health administrators, in California, are now warning that measles has been detected in dozens of restaurants and stores, including a Vons and a Albertson’s grocery stores, both in Oxnard.

The new owner of Safeway, Cerberus Albertsons, is being forced to negotiate with unionized Safeway employees in California.   United Food & Commercial Workers Local 8 […] Continue Reading…

U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings, 24 – 26 January 2015: “unforeseeable circumstance”

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

Canadian based international restaurant chain Tim Hortons (with at least 807 restaurants in the U.S.) killed off 350 of its HQ jobs in Oakville, Ontario, as well as regional corporate jobs! That’s according to Canadian news reports. It makes sense because Tim Hortons was recently taken over […] Continue Reading…

Sears & Kmart closing update, 13 February 2015: More closings! Once again, taxpayers stuck with the bill! New British empire leader of Kmart spends big bucks on new house!

In New York, the taxpayers of Cattaraugus County are being forced to help fund a $3-million project to turn a vacant Kmart into a ‘tourist attraction’! Officially it’s called a mixed use tourism development.

Reports out of Illinois reveal that the new president of Kmart, Alasdair James (who’s a former British empire Tesco executive), spent […] Continue Reading…

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