by stockboardasset The fight: Walmart versus Amazon. It is a fierce fight between the retail giants, with no end in sight. Walmart, the vulnerable emperor of brick-and-mortar discount stores, is dueling Amazon, an e-commerce powerhouse with automated warehouses, and operates its retail …
While E-commerce is slowly chipping away at brick and mortar, it is not the catch all reason for the collapse. E-commerce < 10% of retail sales. The remaining 90% is suffering for other reasons. (Hint: #DEBT)
by Michael Snyder We are in the midst of the worst retail apocalypse in American history, and it seems to be getting worse with each passing month. Many of the “experts” blame the growth of online retailers, and without a …
by David Haggith For a year and a half I’ve been writing about the retail apocalypse that is going to add to US financial woes. This is not a problem created by economic collapse but a problem that I have said …
by WARREN MOSLER A weaker than expected print due to auto sales which have been volatile, but charts show it’s still chugging along at a modest pace: Highlights A big drop in autos skewed industrial production lower in May, slipping 0.1 …
by WARREN MOSLER Just a reminder (from 2015) as to why claims are this low: This is not population adjusted: We haven’t yet to recover from the last recession, in my opinion due to an ongoing lack of demand: Highlights …
https://www.rsrresearch.com/research/more-about-alibaba-and-its-new-retail Last week, I published a piece about Alibaba’s foray into grocery stores. At the time, I thought it was their first entry into the world of what they call “New Retail” and what we would call “Omnichannel” or “converged” …
Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the continuation of the incredibly epic retail apocalypse which has claimed countless massive businesses and seen bankruptcies across the board. Sears has just announced that they will be closing …
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In investments, when you buy is often a bigger determiner of profitability than when you sell. That’s why traditional investment wisdom advocates a “buy low, sell high” strategy. Buying a stock when it’s trading at a low price guarantees your …
by Michael Snyder In 2017 we absolutely shattered the all-time record for retail store closings in a single year, and this year it looks like we are going to shatter the record once again. In fact, there are some that are projecting that up …
by WARREN MOSLER Pretty much as expected. These numbers are not adjusted for inflation, which is running around 2%: Highlights Consumer spending was weak in the first quarter and the first look at the second quarter is no better than …
by Eazy_DuzIt https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-68 Washington D.C., April 18, 2018 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted to propose a package of rulemakings and interpretations designed to enhance the quality and transparency of investors’ relationships with investment advisers and broker-dealers while preserving …
by visualcapitalist In the original whitepaper, Satoshi Nakamoto envisioned Bitcoin as a peer-to-peer version of electronic cash that would facilitate transactions without the oversight on a trustworthy, centralized party. Since then, cryptocurrency has surged in popularity as an asset class – …
by WARREN MOSLER Propped up by autos, as the rest continues weak, and autos aren’t looking so good longer term either: Highlights In a slight reversal of expectations, retail sales proved stronger at the headline level, up 0.6 percent in …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter A 39% plunge in three months. But it was spectacular while it lasted. Previously super-enthusiastic retail investors don’t like what they’ve been seeing in the stock market since January. That’s clear from TD Ameritrade’s Investor Movement Index, …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter And private equity firms are at the helm. March was a busy month for the brick-and-mortar retail meltdown which kicked off in 2015 and has since picked up speed. We’ve followed this progression from the early days. This …
via Eric Basmajian Retail sales declined month over month for three consecutive months. The last time there were three consecutive monthly declines in Retail Sales was in 2015. The consumer is stretched and it’s starting to show up in the data as …
https://twitter.com/Tony_Sagami/status/974146513134796801 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/974409977040396288 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/974443345295659009 The US Dollar continues to struggle for a footing as it can’t even reach previous trend lines anymore. The Atlanta FED shifts their call from 5.4 percent GDP to just 1.9 percent as the economic outlook weakens. …
by WARREN MOSLER Worse than expected and now down for the last three months, not adjusted for inflation. And all in line with the narrative about personal income going flat and the falling savings rate: Highlights The big tax cut isn’t …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter It started before the sell-off. TD Ameritrade’s Investor Movement Index – “designed to indicate the sentiment of retail investors” based on what they’re doing in their accounts and “how they are actually positioned in the markets” – plunged …
by Daisy Luther, The Organic Prepper Every year, it seems like more and more retail outlets are going out of business, resulting in the loss of jobs and local supplies. Last year, hundreds of stores closed, and this year, even more …
by Peter Schiff Could the house of credit cards Americans have built be on the verge of collapse? Earlier this week, the New York Fed released the latest data on US household debt, revealing it has grown to a record $13 trillion. …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter But something funny happened on the way to the headlines. In describing the retail-sales data released today, words like “slumps” and “declines” kept cropping up in the headlines. This referred to the seasonally adjusted month-over-month data, …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter An astounding list of the meltdown: PE firms doomed the retailers. One of the big forces in the brick-and-mortar retail meltdown are private equity firms that acquired retail chains via leveraged buyouts during the LBO boom before …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter One of the “bigger fears”: dip buyers get burned, turn into sellers, “get an exponential move to the downside.” As far as the stock market is concerned, it took a while – in fact, it took …
by Anthony B Sanders Swedish retailer H&M, operating in 62 countries with over 4,500 stores and, as of 2015, employ around 132,000 people, suffered a downward sales shock leading to a decline in their stock price. (Bloomberg Intelligence) — The …
By Michael Snyder Is the retail apocalypse in the United States about to go to a whole new level? That is a frightening thing to consider, because the truth is that things are already quite bad. We have already shattered the all-time …
By Michael Snyder If the U.S. economy is doing just fine, why have we already shattered the all-time record for retail store closings in a single year? Whenever I write about our “retail apocalypse”, many try to counter my arguments by …
BY SRSROCCO As the Dow Jones Index hits another all-time high today, smart money is rushing to the exits. You see, smart money knows when something is too good to be true. Unfortunately for the retail investor who is suffering from …