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Retail Blues: Losing the Formative Experience of Young Workers Shopping Guide

Retail Blues: Losing the Formative Experience of Young Workers

Matthew Stokes November 2, 2020

Fewer young people in the workforce means a longer delay in the development of not only the...

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Can Sears and Kmart Come Back from the (Near) Dead?

Dennis Sanders October 16, 2018

Sears is entering chapter 11 bankruptcy hoping to restructure the company, but is it too little, too...

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Can Walmart Compete (in Streaming Video)?

Mark Kruger July 25, 2018

Ordinary Times regular contributors Mark Krieger (@musepolisci) and Andrew Donaldson (@four4thefire) break down the news that Walmart...

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Kmart’s Death Without Dignity

Dennis Sanders May 2, 2017

Kmart deserves either a good death or second chance at retail life. But looks more and more...

Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025There is no benefit to trying to cozy up to Trump and Co., example one trillion: New Jersey Governor…
North in reply to Philip H on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointRed states build a lot more infrastructure, housing and such development compared to their Blue stat…
North on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointFreddie has always had this squeamishness about YIMBY’s that I think stems from the fact that he, in…
Saul Degraw in reply to Philip H on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025And he has more available but this was expected.
Dark Matter in reply to CJColucci on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025I asked Google's AI the history of that word/medical-phrase. ...gained prominence in the mid-20th ce…
Philip H in reply to DensityDuck on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointWhat pray tell do you think the Right in the US is correct about? I mean Democrats borrowed the righ…
Philip H on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025Welp. I guess he has now had his due process. https://www.npr.org/2025/04/11/nx-s1-5361208/mahmoud-k…
CJColucci in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025I'm not sure about that. I'm older than RFK, Jr., and I remember when I was in 8th grade and homeroo…
Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointFred is weird here because he's pointing to the problems, admitting that the policies he doesn't lik…
Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025The "R word" is an example of the Euphemism treadmill where we decide on a polite euphemism (or medi…