Well the Christmas Shopping season is done and now the “unload product before I have to declare it as inventory on taxes” season is with us.
I’ve now had the full season to judge who is telling you the truth on the economy and surprise, surprise, it ain’t Joe Biden folks.
During the Trump years the Christmas volume was insane. 10 hour days, 6 to 7 day (optional) work weeks and the need for so many people that no matter how many people were crossing en masse south of the border it wasn’t enough to fill our needs. You actually had temp agencies with offices inside our warehouses in order to manage the flow of people we needed.
This Christmas, all of that was a memory. We had three or four really busy days and one client had a big last minute sale that kept us busy enough to not send home folks but the season overall was pretty dead. On the plus side this meant everything got out on time and on schedule so those who could still afford to buy Christmas gifts had no worry getting them before the days of Christmas began.
And a slow Christmas season means a slow returns season. Most people returning gifts usually don’t get them sent till yesterday or today so we might start seeing them sometime next week. But odds are the return volume will be as anemic as the shipping volume was.
That’s going to mean layoffs even with the lower staff volumes, and if it’s happening here it’s happening everywhere else in the country.
I submit and suggest this is why we are seeing the level of um… interesting… tactics and rhetoric coming from the left, the media and the courts and states they control. I have stated publicly that I think the Trump haters can’t be won over but we’re reaching the “even a flatworm knows to turn away from pain” levels generating fear that we might see a margin beyond the credible level of theft.
Of course given what the media has considered “credible” these days there might not be such a phrase.
I think we have been cursed to live in interesting times, but if that’s the case it’s been a curse we’ve brought onto ourselves as a society.
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My friend owns a costumed carolers company in Metro Atlanta. As of December 22, it’s been a very slow season.