Posted on November 20th, 2008 by admin
Last week, Starbucks announced that its profit margin would be 97% lower than last year’s, at 1 penny a share, compared to 21 cents a share in 2007….
This points out to a wider trend: the Golden Years are over. The years of spending $5 on a coffee daily are now looking to us as days [...]
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Posted on October 20th, 2008 by admin
According to the New York Times today, we are headed in a mixed holiday sales forecast, an electronics industry trade group is projecting that consumer spending on such gadgets will grow 3.5 percent in the fourth quarter, half the growth rate in the same quarter a year earlier.
The Consumer Electronics Association, in a report it planned [...]
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