05 December 2014 (12:10 UTC-07 Tango)/12 Safar 1436/14 Azar 1393/15 Bing-Zi 4712
Trendy rich teenager’s clothing store Aéropostale has just upped the ante on their 2014 store shutdown list, bringing the total to 250!
Back in April 2014, administrators with Aéropostale announced they would shutdown about 125 of their P.S. from Aéropostale children’s clothing stores across North America. Administrators also said […] Continue Reading…
“Year-to-date, we closed, or announced for closure, approximately 235 underperforming stores, the majority of which are Kmart stores….
….Revenues decreased approximately $1.1 billion to $7.2 billion for the quarter ended November 1, 2014, as compared to revenues of $8.3 billion for the quarter ended November 2, 2013….
….we do not have commitments from lenders…
…our business…may be […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
California: Taxsucker CISCO Systems announced massive layoffs planned for October, 1-thousand and five people to become unemployed! Taxsucker Boeing warned of 318 layoffs in November! After only five months Freedom Communications ceased publication of the Los Angeles Register, at least 20 jobs lost. Apparently the economy is so bad in the […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
California: In Petaluma, Massachusetts based Brooks Automation announced they will cease operations and render 85 people unemployed in October. Local news reports said the shutdown was discovered after Brooks Automation held a job fair for the employees who are about to become unemployed. Cereal maker General Mills announced they will […] Continue Reading…
01 December 2014 (13:53 UTC-07 Tango)/08 Safar 1436/10 Azar 1393/11 Bing-Zi 4712
Sears Canada’s 3rd quarter 2014 report showed Sears is actually being paid to shutdown stores.
Sears Canada (hand in hand with Sears Holdings) administrators have been making deals with property owners to essentially ‘buyout’ the leases on Sears stores, so they can be shutdown. […] Continue Reading…
01 December 2014 (12:38 UTC-07 Tango)/08 Safar 1436/10 Azar 1393/11 Bing-Zi 4712
“If the won-yuan market matures, transaction costs for the two currencies will fall and the bilateral trade will rise, contributing to economic growth for both countries.”-Lee Ju-yeol, Bank of Korea
An east Asian ally of the United States, Korea (south), has stopped using the U.S. dollar for […] Continue Reading…
For some reason there is very little news of incidents inside Afghanistan for the 15th through 19th of November. Either nothing happened, or there’s a news blackout.
Helmand Province: A British empire United Kingdom report says a Royal Red Coat was shot and killed by his own troops, back in 2009. The recently released report […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns for the month of November, 2014: 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 announcing plans in April to expand ops in Canada, Minnesota U.S.A. based food […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
It’s been revealed that the draconian cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance (SNAP, formerly known as Food Stamps) will affect only four U.S. states: Michigan, Wisconsin, New Jersey and New Hampshire. The rest of the states say they will use their own taxpayer’s money to make up for the […] Continue Reading…
24 November 2014 (10:15 UTC-07 Tango)/01 Safar 1436/03 Azar 1393/03 Yi-Hai (10th month) 4712
India: A new report shows the nuclear power industry is not cost effective, but like a parasite lives off the backs of unsuspecting taxpayers! The Hindu reveals even more ugly truths about nuclear power: “The key fact about nuclear power is that it is […] Continue Reading…