Whew. That was a close one. Just when you thought it had all gone to heck, trillions more would be lost, millions more would lose their jobs...
Let's hear it for the diners at Natick Mall in Massachusetts for saving the world financial system. Who'd have thunk that Vietnamese Shrimp Summer Rolls and Buffalo Blasts could save the world and stop this historic crash?
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People can't stop over spending. I have a father-in-law who is getting behind on his HELOC and other payments. So I'm talking to him about how he is going to work these problems out and I hear his wife talking to him while we are on the phone. He says oh I have to go, we are meeting the gang at some new BBQ joint in San Diego. Having hard time with money, hey go blow 60 bucks. First rule about getting out of a hole, stop digging. I have lot of money, but I am not spending it, does make me a evil person?
People still have CC in their wallets. My brother who had a couple of cards, but always used cash is having his CC cancelled. He got 2 letters stating " We must not be meeting your CC needs so we are closing this account". His last card, he went out and bought a few items that he needed, just to keep it active.
What a bunch of sheep, who would wait an hour and half to eat that crap. Go somewhere else, oh I forgot people always talk about the cheesecake factory and its not that the food is good, but how big the servings are. Fat pigs want more!!!
"Buffalo Blasts"
Youre giving your buffalo too much fiber.
No, it's not the Natick Mall anymore -- the idiots renamed it the Natick Collection when it was renovated recently. What a monumentally pretentious name -- it pretty much sums up the hubris of the era that is crashing around us. I'm shocked, but apparently, the Norstrom, Neiman Marcus, and Louis Vuitton aren't doing much business right now.
What crash?The media is way over doing this.The only people hurting are those who were fucked in the first place.Business as usual here in sacramento.
I don't think I'd wait in line:
Worker Harassment
LOL!
Actually I was at PF Changs at the Natick Mall a few days ago. Not so busy. And the Mall just before Christmas was pretty darn slow.
But Cheesecake Factory at Providence Place was pretty darn busy just before Christmas. (Gawd I cant stand that place.) I guess the indebted sheeple will spend on CF right up until the Visa cards get revoked.
BTW, just before Christmas, I got a great deal on a Mikimoto pearl necklace at "Needless Markup" in the Natick Mall.
When times are tough, you can REALLY negoiate and squeeze those retail guys. I JUST LOVE THAT!!!!
LOL!!!!!!!!
There has never been a better time than now to buy cheesecake! We all know that times are stressful, with the talk of financial collapse, unprecedented worldwide depression and the descent from civilized society into cannibalism! But we all need to eat, and doesn't a 1,500-calorie piece of sweet, sweet cheesecake dribbled with chocolate or caramel or strawberries sound like a better meal than the scrawny haunch of a homeless person you lured to your house with the promise of "food for work" and then murdered and cut up in your garage?!?
The lines are long to get into our restaurants, which is proof of how good our food is and how many successful people eat there! As you stand in line for an hour and a half, you can chat with these successful people and ask them for a job! Or you can try to lure them to your house so you can murder them in your garage and store their fat, nicely marbled haunches in your deep freezer!
You can put your cheesecake treat on your credit card, because we don't check it all that close to see if you've maxed it out, since we need the cash flow NOW, even if it gets clawed back! Our waitresses are eager to give you coupons for $20 off your next meal* And we want the business so badly that our staff won't spit in your food any more!**
*Coupon only valid on meal purchases totaling $200 or more and when paid in cash, preferably euros, which we will be glad to exchange for U.S. dollars at the bargain rate of 1:1. Coupon not valid if we have declared bankruptcy. Or if there's even newspaper stories HINTING we're declaring bankruptcy.
** Our staff will still chase you into the parking lot and spit in your face if you don't leave a decent tip, because we have cut their wages by 25% during these difficult times, and somebody has to pay our employees. So we've decided that should be you.
I said the same thing about granite counter tops and stainless stell appliances bought with HELOC monies.
DIE YOU PIGS
I think what Keith is getting at is trying to show the stupidity of the people who post on these forums and say "I was at such and such store yesterday and there were people buying stuff left and right. Therefore there is no crash".
It's the same as saying "when I woke up this morning it was cold outside, and therefore there is no such thing as global warming".
Simple-minded, stupid views do not look at the macro picture of what is going on and serve no legitimate or helpful purpose on these boards.
Pigs and phonies! Guy has 3 props in foreclosure and was buying his teens high end presents (surfboards, laptops..) this year w/o skipping a beat. Another is going belly up but is at the golf course every other day like usual.
People like this won’t stop until the CC’s are exhausted (Likely $200K+), and the 1099’s are filed on their HELOC’n, house flippin asses – This will be their financial AIDS.
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BWAHAHAHA
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found Mervyns closing 75 percent off sale had prices that still seemed irrationaly high and made me wonder what fools gave them their everyday prices?
Still waiting for the "...SOME CRASH" comment.
C-Cake Factory is where fat people go to get fatter. Great business model.
The line out front is proportional to the population density of retards with no imagination who can't cook.
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I think what Keith is getting at is trying to show the stupidity of the people who post on these forums and say "I was at such and such store yesterday and there were people buying stuff left and right. Therefore there is no crash".
There used to be this guy named DOPES.
The new Natick Mall (Collection) was built, like many new malls, during the housing boom. I'm very familiar with that mall prior to its renovation and post-renovation.
The developers saw all the house prices going up and, along with them, peoples' net worth. They figured the folks in towns like Natick, Ashland, Southboro, etc. would be able to -- and want to -- purchase at Tiffany's, Nieman Marcus, Versace, etc. Most of Massachusetts is very casual in dress, and even ratty to be honest with you. These types of stores just don't appeal to the Massachusetts mentality. I think the people who live in those communities simply don't buy that stuff. The only communities near there that would shop at those stores are Wayland, Wellesley, Dover, possibly Newton, possibly Brookline, and a few others. But I think most of the people who live in those communities would simply go to Boston for a day of shopping than out to the Natick mall. And honestly, most of the people who live in these communities don't give a rats ass about the high end clothes or products these stores sell...they really just dress down...it's the Massachusetts way.
I don't see how all those new high-end stores can make it through this recession. I predict that a bunch of them will close.
Go Sox!!
Natick is next to Framingham and yes Natick is different.... Everyone wants to eat cheescake here
"People like this won’t stop until the CC’s are exhausted (Likely $200K+), and the 1099’s are filed on their HELOC’n, house flippin asses – This will be their financial AIDS."
Wouldn't you though if you were in the same position? I sure as hell would. They probably don't have a dime saved and they know they're never paying the money back so why not go wild and spend all the credit until it's cut off?
eric - there is no "never paying the $$ back" when it comes to the IRS.
Might come as a surprise to some that 1099's are coming for CC debt settlements also. Taxable INCOME. Owe the IRS $ and they have better access to your wages and bank acct. than you do!
No, I'm not doing this. I have unused credit while my FICO score tanks & they start to take the rest away... I plan on paying it back when I'm able, so why max them out now?
Call me dumb, but that's how I live with myself. You should try it sometime. Happy debt-free New Year.
My husband and I went to Stoneridge Mall in Pleasanton a few days ago.
Went into Ann Taylor. While at the register, I asked the sales girl if the shop was closing, because it was so sparce, empty racks and nothing on the walls or in the window...
She said they would stay open, however the other Ann Taylor locations - one in Concord at the Sun Valley Mall and the other in Danville at Black Hawk Plaza were closing.
The Ann Taylor shop in Black Hawk Plaza closing??? I thought the rich would support their local shopping meca. Guess not, when most of the people living in Danville are only pretending to have money, when all along they were just using their homes as ATM machines. Realty will bite hard in Danville...
Thats not all the bad news for local malls. Crescent Jewelers, Whitehall and another jewelry store all went out of business the end of Dec.
More empty mall spaces adding to the preasure of bad retail sales.
The landslide of store closings is happening like clockwork, get ready to see your local mall with a lot less shops in the next few months.
Keith dude where do you come up with those 'headlines', you crack me up.
Hey Anon, that "Headline" came from an actual Poster to this Blog! (Believe it or not)
December 29, 2008
Was October/November "Panic"? Or is that still up ahead?
Look at the last comments.
Just another dude in denial...
Sterling:
Yeah OK I see now. Hilarious. Perhaps I should go thank the folks at the Auntie Ann's Pretzel Kiosk for bailing us all out, the other day they had hungary shoppers lining up for the sweet n' sour dip.
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