Is the US facing a retail apocalypse?
More than 800 big box retail stores are
set to close across the nation this year
- including Bed Bath & Beyond, Walmart,
Gap and Party City
Posted By: Imright, 2/20/2023 9:53:11 PM
America is bracing for a mass exodus of retail stores across the nation this year, with more than 800 big box locations set to close from California to New York. Among the iconic names to announce they are downsizing includes Bed Bath & Beyond, Walmart, Gap and Party City. At least 803 stores are set to be shuttered over the rest of 2023, with many forced into desperate cost cutting measures amid rampant inflation and declining bottom lines. The move comes as numerous industries continue to struggle, including Silicon Valley's 'tech wreck' which has seen over 70,000 jobs lost in recent months.
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The Republican-led committee sent a five-page letter Tuesday to Vuk Jeremić, who served as Serbia's foreign minister and president of the U.N. General Assembly from 2012 to 2013.
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Schools, Zero Students Are Proficient
in Reading or Math 14 replies
Schools, Zero Students Are Proficient
in Reading or Math 14 replies
How is American education going? In at least one blue midwestern state, not well.
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As for math, across 53 schools, no students are proficient.
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The NBA has been insufferably woke for a few years now. They love to virtue signal for Black Lives Matter and everything else the left embraces.
And now they’re entering into a new partnership with a company in China, a country that uses slave labor, poisons the environment and even has what are effectively concentration camps.
It’s all about money. The NBA wants those dollars that come from selling jerseys and sneakers in China.
The FOX Business Network reports:NBA enters strategic partnership with fintech company Ant Group in China
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If you live in a major city in the US you've probably noticed the amount of poop on sidewalks has rocketed in recent years.
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The tearful widow of the Temple University officer who was shot and killed while patrolling the streets of Philadelphia over the weekend said he kissed her goodbye, told her he loved her before his death.
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Biotech millionaire Vivek Ramaswamy announced Tuesday that he is entering the Republican primary race for president.
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Ramaswamy, 37, released a three-and-a-half-minute video Tuesday signaling that his campaign will focus on how conservatives have been culturally victimized.
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President Joe Biden told Polish President Andrzej Duda that he wanted to add a 'ski' to his last name as a kid, because he grew up surrounded by so many Polish immigrants.
Biden talked about his Delaware upbringing during a bilateral meeting Tuesday with Duda at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, as he kicked off the pre-planned portion of his Poland trip, which is to mark the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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As in, brave, brave, brave, brave, Joe Biden ... he was not afraid to die, oh, brave Joe Biden. (Snip for Monty Python video clip) Which is about par for him, given that he's taken grandstanding congressional trips to places like Afghanistan, where he's come back with tales of himself as a hero.
Bravest of the brave Joe Biden...
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Buttigieg still hasn’t visited East Palestine.
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Brace for Impact: Tucker Carlson Gets
Thousands of Hours of January 6 Footage
From McCarthy 16 replies
Thousands of Hours of January 6 Footage
From McCarthy 16 replies
Earlier this month, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy promised to release all the footage of the January 6 riot at the Capitol to the public.
“I think the public should see what happened on that day,” McCarthy said of the footage. “I watched what Nancy Pelosi did, where she politicized it. (Snip)”
It would appear that McCarthy has handed thousands of hours of January 6 footage to Tucker Carlson and his team, but at this time, only Carlson seems to have access to it.
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Report: In a Staggering Number of Chicago
Schools, Zero Students Are Proficient
in Reading or Math 14 replies
Schools, Zero Students Are Proficient
in Reading or Math 14 replies
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As for math, across 53 schools, no students are proficient.
The bulk of those underperforming campuses — twenty-two in the case of reading and thirty-three in the case of math — sit within the City of Chicago School District — where taxpayers annually spend between $5,929 and $56,311 per student.