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Monday Humor: "New Normal" Retail Discounting

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Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:01 | 4252112 krispkritter
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I'm guessing this is where that poor guy in the Chinese mall met his end?

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:31 | 4252198 Seasmoke
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KK. You are on a roll in this tread. LOL.

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 20:53 | 4252326 sunaJ
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I make joke! (50% inflation is crazy)  But seriously, there is not inflation.  Inflation is with PRICES!  Nevermind that you get less and less of more and more cheaply-produced chemical product.  Carry on, everything is fine.*

 

*the new 11" Subway sandwich is now available for the incredible price of a footlong!+


+ the new 11" footlong price is only 5% more!**

 

**New 11" footlong subway sandwich now may contain genetically modified spinache! that may substitute for actual spinach.4

 

4 Spinache!, and all Subway brand food derivatives, are trademarked representations of food that have not been found to possess adverse health effects in pinky rats. 5

 

5 Spinache!, and all GMO products, are approved by many lawyers, scientists and the FDA that will gladly accept millions of dollars to find that such products are suitable for human consumption. 6

 

6 There is no inflation.


 

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 21:09 | 4252426 RafterManFMJ
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I went to public school, but wouldn't that actually be 100% inflation?

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:30 | 4252200 SafelyGraze
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shoes are like twins

they come in pairs

 

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:43 | 4252236 stocktivity
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Maybe that store will be the "sole" survivor on that block.

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:51 | 4252250 EscapingProgress
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When will we start seeing deals like this for stocks on the DOW and S&P?

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 21:03 | 4252420 stacking12321
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dow? s&p? fuhgettaboutit!

if you started buying silver at $40, today is your buy 1, get one free deal!

 

 

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:54 | 4252261 Mentaliusanything
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AAUGH my hearties, finally the Old Peg Leg gets cut a break. I be hobbling down right smart!

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:53 | 4252264 stocktivity
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you better read the small (foot)print...

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 20:11 | 4252305 Lost My Shorts
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What they didn't mention is -- both are right shoes.  The fine print is a bitch.

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 20:16 | 4252320 new game
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you can keep that free shoe if you like it...

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 20:33 | 4252362 Offthebeach
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The coming new normal will be home made tire sandals. Poorer people will have to go barefoot.

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 20:59 | 4252415 Big Corked Boots
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Tire sandals are what people wear when they can't afford Crocs.

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:02 | 4252113 666
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That's no good for me because I have 3 feet.

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:07 | 4252126 CCanuck
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666...Me too...but I only have to put shoes on two of them. ;-)

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:17 | 4252166 unrulian
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Canadians...we're not that smart... but when you people have sausage parties...we have salami parties

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:47 | 4252243 EvlTheCat
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If the women don't find you handsome at least they can find you packing a salami.

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:53 | 4252258 max2205
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If you like your shoes...you can't keep your shoes

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 20:03 | 4252270 Peter Pan
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Italian girl Gina gets married to Tony and when they were getting ready to go to bed that night she sees Tony unscrewing one of his feet off. Apparently he had lost a foot.

Gina gets a shock of her life and runs downstairs to her mother:

"Mama mama, Tony tooka his clothes off and he gotta  one foot." she screams.

Mama then rolls up her sleeves, pushes her daughter to the side and heads off up the stairs muttering: "This is a job for mama."

 

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 20:32 | 4252354 UncleFurker
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Fwaaaaaarp.

 

You're here all week, I hope?

 

 

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:04 | 4252118 remain calm
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I wonder if they are half price.

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:09 | 4252133 krispkritter
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The Lefts are. Rights are double.

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:36 | 4252197 notquantumdum
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Does that add up to three halves or five halves, total?

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:39 | 4252229 MrTouchdown
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I used to play bass for a band called three halves stupid.. the universe is starting to come apart!

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:08 | 4252128 Uncle Remus
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Gawd I hate math that makes me take off my shoes...

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:10 | 4252148 krispkritter
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I can get to 21 if I unzip...(ok, 20 1/2)

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:44 | 4252235 WillyGroper
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I'll have what you're having! LOL

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 20:21 | 4252304 krispkritter
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Yep, fed up with clients today, took the afternoon off, started early...be surprised if I make it past 9... :)

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:09 | 4252132 SV
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That's raaaacist against amputees.  They need deals too!

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:29 | 4252191 OutLookingIn
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As in the movie "We Were Soldiers" when Galloway told the story of his G,G,Grandfathers, both vets of the civil war, one lost his left leg and the other his right, would meet once a year and go buy a pair of shoes, since both wore the same size! I wonder which one would be free?   

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:09 | 4252140 Freddie
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If you like your one shoe, you can keep your one shoe.

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 21:50 | 4252562 ImReady
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Looks like someone is going to be asking for 2 front teeth this Christmas!

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:54 | 4252260 Frank N. Beans
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I've got a left shoe up for auction on ebay right now, a New Balance left shoe.  Please check it out. 

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 22:26 | 4252662 Frank N. Beans
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I'm serious.

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:10 | 4252141 Number 156
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What is the store owner going to do with all the unpurchased left shoes?

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:28 | 4252187 krispkritter
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Sell them to women named Peg...or guys named Skip.

Tue, 12/17/2013 - 15:51 | 4254755 Zymurguy
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Ilean

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:17 | 4252159 docmac324
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At least it was all spelled correctly..

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:15 | 4252160 wackydog
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I guess that's a POGO sale...

pay for one... get one....

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:19 | 4252169 buzzsaw99
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waiting for the 100% off sale

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 21:07 | 4252427 imbrbing
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Comes with a free rock to bust said window to get free shoe.....oh wait thats SHTF scenerio. Everything

is free then. Go long rocks!

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:21 | 4252171 tradewithdave
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You fail to understanding the cultural significance of shoe throwing... at presidents... Duh.

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:36 | 4252214 U4 eee aaa
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This helps with 'bring a friend night'

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:28 | 4252183 notquantumdum
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So would the one-legged person be able to buy only one at half price?

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:26 | 4252185 CHX
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With shrinking food packages at same price it's more like "2 4 3"

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:31 | 4252195 OwnSilverPlayMusic
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*Some fees for laces may apply

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:33 | 4252203 Seasmoke
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What's their return policy ?

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:31 | 4252204 W74
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This bodes well for those who lost limbs while destabilizing the middle east for what they thought was the benefit of their own country.

Fuck Oil.  Fuck Kikes.

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:32 | 4252208 U4 eee aaa
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D'OH! I'm There!

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:47 | 4252246 Orly
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Still, there's nothing like a BOGO!

:D

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:51 | 4252252 Peter Pan
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Two hobos meet on the road and one notices that the other has only one shoe on.

"Hey man, you lost a shoe?"

"No brother I just found one."

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 19:50 | 4252253 booboo
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My local VFW needs to load up a bus, there be 8 guy at the bar and only 9 legs, the daytime bartender has all his limbs but only half a brain.

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 20:00 | 4252278 Orly
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Yeah.  The professional bartenders really don't start work until after three, so...

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 20:02 | 4252280 Peter Pan
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Black man walks into shoe shop and asks for a size 3 shoe for his little boy which he buys.

Two weeks later he walks in and asks for a size four shoes which the same female assistant gets for him and which he buys.

Three weeks later he walks in and asks for a pair of shoes for his little boy.

"Size 5?" the lady asks

"No"he says. "Size 2 this time."

"Oh", the female assistant says. "Do you have another little boy?"

"No, we just thought we should cut his toe nails."

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 20:01 | 4252281 Orly
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Hark! Was that another slam-down in the eMinis?  Cascade a-comin'?

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 20:05 | 4252290 Peter Pan
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A retailer of shoes goes to open his shop one day and notices that another shoe shop has opened next door to his left with a big sign saying, "50% off" above the door way.

The next day he arrives and sees that to his right another shoe shop opened up with the sign 50% discount" above the doorway.

The poor old shoe retailer could not offer such discounts so on the third day he opened up his shop with a big sign above his doorway saying, "MAIN ENTRANCE". 

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 21:24 | 4252469 mobtown
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I'm waiting for the sale at Victoria's Secret when bras are all half-off.

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 20:14 | 4252298 krispkritter
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Speaking of shopping.  Schiff takes on Walmart shoppers on $15 per hour wages: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLr5oWfoWRY It's like turning on the lights in a NYC apartment; watch'em scatter...

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 20:18 | 4252325 Peter Pan
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People were mostly in favour of higher wages for Walmart employees.

Perhaps Schiff should have asked if they would be in favour of stopping imports and making the stuff in the USA so they could all have work.

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 20:26 | 4252349 krispkritter
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Yes, but not paying for it.  That AND an increase from paying American wages would be a tough row to hoe, but yeah, if we don't get back to making things here there won't be enough decent jobs to support the consumption, at any price.  Given the manipulation of the dollar, inflation, and wholesale abuse in the banking/investment circles, there won't be many escapes for the 99%/95%/90%, etc.

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 20:24 | 4252313 notquantumdum
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To the optimist, the glass is half full.

To the pessimist, the glass is half empty.

To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 21:11 | 4252431 Ms. Erable
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And the rest of us are wondering why we never got a glass.

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 21:33 | 4252457 notquantumdum
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'How has one ever "got"[ten] anything ['other than through trading what is perceived as "equal value" with someone, if not perceived by both parties [hopefully], somehow . . . I would suggest . . . that is . . . when they still allow that, by "law"]?

The only other apparent way would be through hard effort, right!!!?

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 21:54 | 4252568 Ms. Erable
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Unless you go into banking as a vocation. Then you can legally steal two half empty/full glasses from others, pour the liquid into one of them, and be one of the few in the world with a full glass.

And the second glass? Keep it - it's a repo.

Mon, 12/16/2013 - 22:11 | 4252576 notquantumdum
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'good point . . . 'forgot about being a crook [when that is what is happening].

Tue, 12/17/2013 - 08:39 | 4253499 CJHames
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As seen in the book "Shopping For Liberal Dummies."

Tue, 12/17/2013 - 10:56 | 4253880 d edwards
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Krugman told 0bama this would be a way to stimulate business.

Tue, 12/17/2013 - 10:29 | 4253791 esum
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size 18 high heels only

buy 1 shoe 1 free = full price where i'm from

however Jos A Bank is def where  the real bargains are .......

and dont forget the other one YOURE GONNA LIKE HOW YOU LOOK

but I can t look you in the eye

 

 

Tue, 12/17/2013 - 16:00 | 4254788 Black Warrior W...
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Captain Ahab is all in at that joint.

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