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John
Ive been whining about the local stores here. They used to be great
considering I live in Cucamonga. But recently theyve been out of stock
, cant get things and excluding sales items in the national chain
store ads - the local stores in the chain.
I thought perhaps they were having lots of financial difficulties or
were ordered by corporate HQ to get really tight about profits. My
mind seemed focus on bad econ news since weve been in the down part of
the business cycle the last few years. It seemed weird because weve
been having an upswing in econ news here.
However I talked to a manager at a store tonight after ordering
something that was once again strangely out of stock. She says they
arent having financial diffcilutlies , and they are having a hard time
getting inventory.
So is it the opposite? Is the much hyped econ upswing thats supposed
to be happening nationally causing actual shortages ?
That would explain a lot - the weird shortages and inability to stock
items by ordering them even off the island. The rising prices in lots
of things like memory etc.
Kingston mem I got a few weeks ago was $59 after rebate then $63
two weeks ago and now $71 this week after rebate. In noticed many of
the local sales are really mediocre though Office max still has some
great sales they are usually out of stock or excluded from the local
store. Havent seen a lot of $29 or less smart media/compact flash
sales like I used to. The one thing thats getting way cheaper are hard
disks. Not a huge upswing in prices - many things are still low but
there seems to be a tiny creep up in some prices recently.
considering I live in Cucamonga. But recently theyve been out of stock
, cant get things and excluding sales items in the national chain
store ads - the local stores in the chain.
I thought perhaps they were having lots of financial difficulties or
were ordered by corporate HQ to get really tight about profits. My
mind seemed focus on bad econ news since weve been in the down part of
the business cycle the last few years. It seemed weird because weve
been having an upswing in econ news here.
However I talked to a manager at a store tonight after ordering
something that was once again strangely out of stock. She says they
arent having financial diffcilutlies , and they are having a hard time
getting inventory.
So is it the opposite? Is the much hyped econ upswing thats supposed
to be happening nationally causing actual shortages ?
That would explain a lot - the weird shortages and inability to stock
items by ordering them even off the island. The rising prices in lots
of things like memory etc.
Kingston mem I got a few weeks ago was $59 after rebate then $63
two weeks ago and now $71 this week after rebate. In noticed many of
the local sales are really mediocre though Office max still has some
great sales they are usually out of stock or excluded from the local
store. Havent seen a lot of $29 or less smart media/compact flash
sales like I used to. The one thing thats getting way cheaper are hard
disks. Not a huge upswing in prices - many things are still low but
there seems to be a tiny creep up in some prices recently.