Illinois has joined the shutdown list. The Sullivan Shopko will be slammed shut by April, the store manager told local news media his store wasn’t making enough money.
According to a Wisconsin news outlet Rite Aid has made it clear they’ve taken over Shopko’s pharmacy operations: “…we had a seamless transition with acquiring Shopko’s pharmacy…”-Kristin […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns for the month of January, 2015: Many food suppliers/distributors are consolidating operations and killing jobs due to the collapsing grocery store and restaurant industries, as well as rising costs of food production.
After only one year, award winning Modern Farmer magazine shutdown. Its blamed on disputes […] Continue Reading…
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In 2014 evil Cerberus Capital concluded a hostile $9.2-billion USD takeover of California based Safeway. The hostile takeover, which was challenged in court, was done through Idaho based Albertsons. Safeway was the second largest grocery store owner […] Continue Reading…
A new Gallop Poll reported that the average Afghan says their suck-ass economy is far more dangerous (despite trillions of taxpayer funding spent on the Afghan 1%) than any resurgence of the Taliban! Only 6% of Afghans think their economy is getting better!
Farah Province: Thousands of Afghans protested France.
Ghazni Province: On the Jaghori-Gilan highway, police report that […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
California: In Stockton, food processor Hormel announced they will shutdown their 65 years old chili and Dinty Moore beef stew factory in February 2015, at least 110 jobs lost! Company administrators blame the record level prices of beef for causing a 21% drop in profits!
Hawaii: After 93 […] Continue Reading…
After Eddie Lampert’s ESL Investments who’s the next biggest shareholder in Sears Holdings? An outfit called Fairholme. It was created, and is still run by Bruce R. Berkowitz.
Berkowitz used to work for Lehman Brothers, you know the outfit credited with starting the recession in 2008. He was also managing director of Smith Barney, a ‘financial […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
California: Reports revealed that Palo Alto based Hewlett Packard will kill off 41-thousand jobs by the end of 2014!!! As many as 32-thousand people around the World have already been rendered jobless!!! But wait there’s more! Those same reports say evil Meg Whitman is planning on killing off […] Continue Reading…
The Washington Post revealed (some time ago) that during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan the U.S. Reagan regime spent $51-million U.S. tax dollars creating ‘Islamic terrorism how to guides’, and then issued them to Mujahideen fighting the Soviets. Those “textbooks” went on to be used by groups who later called themselves Taliban. The tactics […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
Alpha Natural Resources announced at least 62 people laid off at their coal mine ops in Kentucky and West Virginia.
Arkansas: Little Rock based Windstream Communications announced another 350 layoffs, on top of the 400 layoffs earlier this year! The company is undergoing radical change due to the […] Continue Reading…
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More proof it’s not the internet killing off brick-n-mortars! News out of California saying massive job cuts and company destruction involving internet auction and selling site ebay.
Local San Jose news sources report that ebay administrators have confirmed they will sell […] Continue Reading…