{"id":3898,"date":"2009-01-08T09:33:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T17:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3898"},"modified":"2009-01-09T09:06:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T17:06:40","slug":"the-things-are-really-bad-retail-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3898","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Things Are Really Bad&#8221; Retail Round Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately there are simply too many doom and gloom retail stories hitting to even try to keep up, so here is this morning&#8217;s round up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5isEVM_BjHrddRKwPsrdYV6USqZrgD95J6UGG0\" target=\"_blank\">Meltdown 101: The importance of same-store sales<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/09\/business\/economy\/09shop.html?em\" target=\"_blank\">Holiday Sales Were Dismal, New Retail Data Confirms: New York Times<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/industries\/retail\/2009-01-08-retail-walmart_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Retailers report dismal Dec. sales; Wal-Mart cuts forecast; USA Today<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/news\/newsfeeds\/articles\/djf500\/200901081130DOWJONESDJONLINE000728_FORTUNE5.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Retailers Have Not-So-Merry Holidays; CNNMoney.com<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/feeds\/ap\/2009\/01\/08\/ap5894654.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific Sunwear lowers 4Q outlook again; Forbes<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/28545637\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zumiez reports 12.3 percent December sales decline; MSNBC<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2009\/01\/08\/business\/shop.php\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s confirmed: Christmas was bad for U.S. retailers: International Herald Tribune<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/405314\/worst-christmas-ever\" target=\"_blank\">Worst Christmas Ever: Wonkette<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And the New Year&#8217;s joy continues to roll in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately there are simply too many doom and gloom retail stories hitting to even try to keep up, so here is this morning&#8217;s round up: Meltdown 101: The importance of same-store sales Holiday Sales Were Dismal, New Retail Data Confirms: New York Times Retailers report dismal Dec. sales; Wal-Mart cuts forecast; USA Today Retailers Have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3898"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3951,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898\/revisions\/3951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}