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daniel September 23, 2015March 16, 2016 Are Department Stores Losing Money?, Costco Wholesale, DDS, Dillard's, Do Department Stores Make Money?, Does Nordstrom Make Money?, Is Department Store Revenue Growing or Not?, Is the End of Department Stores Coming?, JC Penney's, JCP, Kohl's, KSS, M, Mayc's, percentage of middle income households, Sears Holdings, SHLD, The Incredible Shrinking Middle Cass, The profitable Dillard’s

Do Department Stores Make Money?

Part of the reason why retailers such as Penney’s, Sears, Macy’s and Dillard’s are having a hard time maintaining revenue growth is that they have fewer customers. The percentage of middle class families in the population of every state of the Union shrank between 2000 and 2013, research from the Pew Charitable Trust indicates.

The Death Spiral

daniel July 22, 2015February 11, 2016 Apparel sales fall, COST, Costco, DG, DLTR, Does JCP Penny have a future, Income Inequality, Is JCP Penney Doomed., JCP, JWN, M, Really cheap stocks, Why is JC Penney Closing?, WMT

Falling Apparel Sales Show Income Inequality Hurting Retailers

It looks as if basic retail and our economy could be in serious trouble. The present economic policies in the United States are not looking good and need to be changed now before we see large-scale collapse in many sectors.

The Death Spiral

daniel February 3, 2015March 16, 2016 AEO, AMZN, ANF, BKS, BODY, COST, EXPR, JCP, M, ODP, PBY, SPLS, WMT, WTSLQ, WWW

The Retail Apocalypse Gets Worse

We’ll probably see at least one major retailer, possibly Sears or Kmart, gone by the end of this year. Another strong possibility is that a major retailer like Staples or Sears will abandon brick and mortar all together.

Long Ideas

daniel December 7, 2014 Amazon, AMZN, Apple Pay, Benjamin Graham, COST, Costco, CVS Health, Dollar General, FDO, JCP, Macy's, Mr. Market, Mr. Money Mustache, PayPal, Sears, Target, Value Investing, walgreen, WMT

Retail Recovery Not at Department Stores

It looks as if holiday shopping season 2014 could be something of a bust. That means 2015 could become a very ugly year for department stores with lots of store closings, cutbacks, restructuring, layoffs, and losses. The retail recovery could be turning into a retail apocalypse for the department store industry.