Deal-packed retail credit cards sound good, but aren’t so great

Biz: Deal-packed retail credit cards sound good, but aren’t so great

Miss a payment with any of these cards, and the deals go away. They also can damage your credit score and have really high interest rates. source

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Biz: People are buying slightly larger amounts of crap than before

1.3% increase in retail sales in November source

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Biz, U.S.: The economy’s starting to (slowly) recover from the recession

521,000 new jobless claims this week, the lowest level since January
thirteen months since the last increase in retail; we had one in September source

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Biz: Retail rents are starting to look … uh … reasonable in NYC again

$1,700 per square foot on Fifth Avenue; buy now source

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Biz: Duh: Cash for Clunkers led to a huge jump in retail sales

2.7% increase in buying stuff at retail in August source

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Biz, Tech: If Best Buy lists a HDTV for $9.99, you can bet it doesn’t cost $9.99

$1699.99 the usual cost of a 52-inch Samsung HDTV at Best Buy
$9.99 the price it was listed at this morning; nerds freaked source

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Biz, Politics: Why we all don’t want to work for Wal-Mart

34 number of hours per week that constitute “full-time” at Wal-Mart; just about everywhere else, it’s 40
$17,114 amount of money, based on average hourly wage, that makes – still below the poverty line source

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Biz: Wal-Mart’s profits stay almost exactly the same as a year ago

$3.02 billion in profits in both Q1 ’08 and Q1 ’09 source

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13 Dec 2009 11:10

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08 Oct 2009 22:00

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Biz, U.S.: The economy’s starting to (slowly) recover from the recession

21 Sep 2009 21:40

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Biz: Retail rents are starting to look … uh … reasonable in NYC again

15 Sep 2009 09:03

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Biz: Duh: Cash for Clunkers led to a huge jump in retail sales

12 Aug 2009 21:50

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Biz, Tech: If Best Buy lists a HDTV for $9.99, you can bet it doesn’t cost $9.99

04 Jun 2009 10:29

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Biz, Politics: Why we all don’t want to work for Wal-Mart

14 May 2009 07:48

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Biz: Wal-Mart’s profits stay almost exactly the same as a year ago