U.S. retailers have announced more store closures so far this year (5,994) than they did in the entirety of 2018 (5,864) ( Coresight Research )
Moreover well on track to beat the record setting 8,000 closures in 2017
I love this kind of thinking … which I stumbled across when I was reading another article by Hugh Dubberly.
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Does it really incentivize superior service? If I am EXPECTED to pay a 20% tip for ANY kind of service?
I know it’s the American way - but that doesn’t mean it is right.
Tipping hides the habit of simply not paying people enough.
Dana says it … quickly, succinctly, quietly.
I have been expecting an ‘adjustment’ for a couple of years now. Some say that I am too pessimistic. But actually, I am optimist. It is that bad!
Smear To Sneer ... It’s A Well Practiced Tactic.
And a counter balance from our friend @Gruber quoting the BBC Julian Assange, Houseguest From Hell
Kind of like the politics we see from the current Whitehouse … don’t bother with policy, the principals, the main story … instead smear to sneer at the individual.
Why now? What is the backstory? Who’s putting in the pressure? What was Ecuador threatened with?
That all said … if all of the smears are true … I fully expect an insanity defence.
From a more mainstream writer, Margaret Sullivan opines ….Traditional journalists may abandon WikiLeaks’ Assange at their own peril
I posted this recently. … seems like others are observing similar things …
Chomsky: Arrest of Assange Is “Scandalous” and Highlights Shocking Extraterritorial Reach of US
The extraterritorial reach of the US is well documented … and amplified by one way treaties signed by Bliar et al.
The Assange Arrest Is A Warning From History
John Pilger at his best …. telling it like it is. As he does.
The question is not whether you like Assange … the question is whether you like the Freedom of the Press.
Is this the thin end of the wedge?
Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police
What will be used for good needs to be used carefully, and will be used for bad. This is a short walk to the Governments tracking activists … journalists even … that they want to shut down.
Wonder what Apple would do?
Electric scooters may not be around for long
… fingers crossed.
Hammond plays down Brexit delay increasing chance of second vote
Not enough time? Only because they will delay the decision to have a second referendum until it is too late to have one.
The Spice Girls have been asked to play Glastonbury
The world must have ended last night.