Kind of makes you wonder just how overpriced this crap is in the first place!
Black Friday Ends
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
Walmart Deep Dive
The title “Walmart Deep Dive” sounds like you’ll need to spray yourself with disinfectant afterward, but fear not. I just thought it would be interesting to look under the hood considering WMT’s drop last week.
A Different Kind of Gap
Yesterday, I bought puts in the clothing manufacturer/retailer Gap (GPS). I based the trade on the resistance line I’ve drawn below, and it was made easier by the surprising fact that this seller-of-jeans-and-t-shirts has a P/E of almost 50!
Shooting For The Moon, Landing Among The Stars
E-commerce Juggernauts Going Further For Longer
Search. Click. Pay. Collect.
While the online shopping market segment has seen a bit of normalization since the decline of the pandemic; e-commerce continues to dominate the retail market, quite literally. In fact, the pandemic years were only the beginning, as it’s looking to be yet another eventful year ahead for some of the biggest and most successful names in the business.
Don’t believe me? Well, listen to the numbers talk. Globally, there are more than 26 million e-commerce sites. In the United States, there are already more than 9.5 million e-commerce platforms, and the number is only growing.
(more…)Buy Sexual
The big economic data point for this morning was Retail Sales, and, for the 4th month in a row, American consumers have beaten forecasts, gobbling up stuff they don’t need with money they don’t have. (As a side note, I learned that about 50% of credit card balances are NOT paid each month, meaning these poor bastards are shelling out 20%+ interest to the likes of Jamie Dimon).
