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daniel December 28, 2021December 28, 2021 How Much Cash can Ollie’s Generate?, Is Ollie’s (OLLI) Making Money?, Is Ollie’s Bargain Outlet Making Money?, Mr. Market Overprices Ollie’s, Ollie’s (NASDAQ: OLLI), Ollie’s (OLLI), Ollie’s Bargain Outlet, Ollie’s Bargain Outlet (OLLI) i, Ollie’s Bargain Outlet Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: OLLI), Retail Apocalypse, What Value Does Ollie’s Have?

Is Ollie’s Bargain Outlet Making Money?

Hence, Ollie’s is making less money, but why? I can offer a few speculations why Ollie’s is making less money.

The Death Spiral

daniel May 27, 2021May 27, 2021 Does the Retail Apocalypse Doom Ethan Allen?, Ethan Allen, Ethan Allen (ETH), Ethan Allen Interiors Inc. (NYSE: ETH), Is Ethan Allen a Good Stock?, Retail Apocalypse, What Value Does Ethan Allen have?

Does the Retail Apocalypse Doom Ethan Allen?

Mr. Market is missing one of the biggest news stories of the century, the Retail Apocalypse. The price of many

The Death Spiral

daniel December 9, 2020December 9, 2020 Dollar General (DG), Dollar General (NYSE: DG), Dollar Tree (DLTR), Dollar Tree (NASDAQ: DLTR), Dollar Tree could Collapse without Stimulus, Dollar Tree generates Less Cash, Dollar Tree Stores Inc. (NASDAQ: DLTR), Dollar Tree’s Business Shrinks, Is Dollar Tree Making Money?, Is the Retail Stock Apocalypse Upon Us?, Retail Apocalypse, Retail Sales Collapse, Will Dollar Tree (DLTR) die and will Retail Collapse?

Will Dollar Tree (DLTR) die and will Retail Collapse?

I think Dollar Tree could collapse because many of its customers could have no money because of the Coronavirus Depression. For instance, Statista estimates 10.74 million Americans were unemployed in November 2020. That number rose from 5.81 million in November 2019 and fell from 23.08 million in April 2020.

Good Stocks

daniel December 4, 2019December 4, 2019 “influencer-designed” apparel collections, Can Target Compete with Amazon?, How Amazon can use Instagram to Destroy Target, Is Target a Good Dividend Stock?, Is Target Stock Overpriced?, Retail Apocalypse, Target (NYSE: TGT), Target and the Art of Retail Survival, Target is Generating Less Cash, Target is Making Less Money, the drop

Target and the Art of Retail Survival

Significantly, Target is generating less cash. In particular, Target’s free cash flow fell from $1.755 billion on 3 August 2019 to $357 million on 2 November 2019. However, Target’s free cash flow rose from -$327 million on 4 May 2019.

The Death Spiral

daniel November 19, 2019November 19, 2019 Barney’s New York, JC Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP), latest evidence for the Retail Apocalypse, Macy’s (NYSE: M), Retail Apocalypse, Sears, The Retail Apocalypse Gets Worse

The Retail Apocalypse Gets Worse

Retail Apocalypse skeptics are not reading or watching the news or studying earnings reports. Both news and earnings reports show

Grocery Wars

daniel October 25, 2019October 25, 2019 4 Essential Trends for Retail Brands in 2020, Data and Analysis, Experiences over Products, Retail Apocalypse, Root Cause Analysis, Sigma Six, The Internet of Things, The IoT and Convenience

4 Essential Trends for Retail Brands in 2020

There is no retail apocalypse, and smart retail brands are leveraging their place in an always-challenging environment. Technology, the disruptor of traditional retail, is also proving to be the solution. Here are the retail trends that will continue to matter in 2020.

The Death Spiral The Junk Pile

daniel April 24, 2018 . The smartest move for Office Depot, Aldi, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Is Office Depot Making Money?, Office Depot Inc. (NASDAQ: ODP), Office Depot is Making Some Money, Retail Apocalypse, Survival Strategies for Office Depot

Is Office Depot Making Money?

Like Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), Office Depot is one of those brands that is no longer supposed to exist but somehow keeps hanging on. It seems to generate just enough money to cover expenses and little else.

The Junk Pile

daniel January 25, 2018 Congress needs to Increase Social Security and Address Pensions now, Retail Apocalypse, Sears Catastrophe, Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD), Sears Implosion will hurt everybody including Pensioners and Stockholders, Sears Pension Benefits, Sears USA is next, Will the Sears Catastrophe be repeated?

Sears Implosion will hurt everybody including Pensioners and Stockholders

American Sears pensioners may soon find themselves in the situation. Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD) had a $1.6 billion shortfall in its pension fund, USA Today reported in March 2017.

What’s truly frightening is that Sears has no way to cover that shortfall. Its revenues fell by 27.22% during 3rd quarter 2017, Stockrow reported. Sears is operating at a loss; it reported an operating loss of $419 million and a net loss of $558 million on Halloween Day, 2017.

Market Insanity

daniel January 14, 2018 Amazon’s Whole Foods 360, Big Media Cheerleading for Trump, closing of 63 Sam’s Club stores, Fewer Retail Jobs, Fewer Retail Jobs which will Pay More, Here’s why the Retail Apocalypse is worse and better than You Think, Is CNBC lying about Walmart Wage Increase?, Kohl’s (NYSE: KSS), Kohl’s cannot make money with department stores, Kroger (NYSE: KR), Lucky’s Market, Macy’s (NYSE: M), Retail Apocalypse, Sam's Closing, Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD), Seritage Growth Properties (NYSE: SRG), Seven 11, Sprouts Farmers Market (NASDAQ: SFM), Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX), The Hudson’s Bay Company (TSE: HBC), Walgreens (NASDAQ: WBA), Walmart, Walmart (NYSE: WMT)

The Retail Apocalypse is Alive and Well

Giving Walmart workers an extra $8 or $9 a day might have little or no impact on the economy. Walmart clerks can now afford to buy lunch at In-N-Out Burger; rather than at McDonald’s, how does that benefit the wider economy? Much higher wages will be needed for a real economic stimulus.

It remains to be seen if the $1,000 bonus and wage hike will have any effect on Main Street. Giving average families an extra $1,000 to pay off $1,000 of their credit card debt, might not do much for the economy. The average U.S. household now owes $15,654 in credit-card debt, Nerdwallet estimated.

Opportunities

daniel November 2, 2017 Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Amazon is still a Lousy Investment, Amazon is taking on a Lot of Debt, Amazon needs every cent it can raise to cover operations costs and pay off loans., Amazon will report $200 billion in revenue sometime next year, Bezos wealth is a threat to Amazon, Is Amazon Really Responsible for the Retail Apocalypse?, Retail Apocalypse, There will be no Amazon Dividend

Is Amazon Really Responsible for the Retail Apocalypse?

Amazon is an extraordinary company that is making itself a big target for politicians and journalists. Yet at the end of the day, the Everything Store is still a very lousy investment.

All of this means that there will be no Amazon dividend in the foreseeable future. The company simply lacks the money to pay a dividend, Amazon needs every cent it can raise to cover operations costs and pay off loans.

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