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Most recent 17 results returned for keyword: John Witherspoon (Search this on MAP)

Bruce Bartlett : I discovered on my recent 5-hour trip to Michigan that JC Penney has gone into what I call the Retail... I discovered on my recent 5-hour trip to Michigan that JC Penney has gone into what I call the Retail Death Spiral. I'd read that they were doing quite badly, but seeing the store made it clear to me that they are sinking into the abyss. This saddens me, for I quite liked their selection of clothing. But on my last trip there a few months ago there was not quite as much to choose from as usual... and on this trip, the staff had been arranging merchandise in such a way to hide how little of it there was, making it immediately obvious that they are in serious trouble. The Retail Death Spiral happens like this: a retailer has a bad year (or two, or three) for any number of reasons, and to improve their bottom line (or possibly because they cannot pay for it), they start paring back their selection to lower the amount of inventory. This in turn lowers sales further, as the store doesn't have the merchandise that its customers have come to expect. Crucially, it silently trains the customers to shop for the items elsewhere, thus depriving the store not only of that business, but whatever add-on sales they would have made too. With the bottom line getting worse, selection and stock gets pared back even further, making the store look empty, which gives any remaining customers the impression that the place is about to go out of business. By that point, nobody wants to shop there, and everyone avoids the place until the bankruptcy announcement is been made. I know this because I worked for a now-defunct department store for several years, and I saw how the Retail Death Spiral happens first-hand. Not coincidentally, a major factor -- but by no means the only one -- in my previous employer's implosion was the disastrous management decision to abandon promotional sales in favour of "everyday low pricing". When JC Penney announced they were moving to this model, I knew they would be in trouble. Personally, I like every day low pricing. I like knowing that I'm not being ripped off if I'm paying "regular" price, and I don't like spending the time doing endless comparison shopping. And there are a lot of people like me. So why doesn't this work? Well, the problem is that people like me tend not to do much shopping at all. There are two types of shoppers: hunters and gatherers. Hunters don't really enjoy shopping at all; they prefer to decide on what they want, run in, grab it -- often in as large a quantity or size as they can possibly manage, lest they have to come back for more -- and get out. Hunters try to avoid multiple or repeat trips, try to get as much in one place as possible, and usually only buy whenever there is an immediate need to. Gatherers, on the other hand, enjoy shopping and view it as a constant, ongoing activity. Gatherers are frequent window-shoppers, browsing through shops, collecting coupons, reading flyers, doing price comparisons, and so on, even for items they know they have no immediate need for. When buying, gatherers will gladly make multiple trips to "cherry-pick" the best deals. They know a good price when they see it, and will buy large quantities or in advance when the opportunity strikes. Generally, men are hunters and women are gatherers, though of course there are plenty of exceptions either way. As you have likely ascertained,  I am a hunter, which is why every day low pricing appeals to me. Gatherers, on the other hand, aren't generally impressed with it. First, they're conditioned to believe that paying regular price is usually a ripoff. Second, the lack of promotional pricing means less of a buzz for the store in question, which leads them to check out other places instead. Third, they know that at some point, some competitor will have a given item on sale for less than the everyday low price, and that's when the gatherers will scoop up the deals. It's all about being the right place at the right time. In any multi-person household, if one person is a gatherer, chances are they will do the bulk of the shopping for the home. First, because they enjoy it (or at least, don't dislike it), and second, because they're much better at it. A gatherer is always keeping tabs on who is offering what for how much, so when the need arises, they already know the best place to go for it. Because hunters only shop when they absolutely must, they miss out on the best deals or don't know where to find them. To the best of my knowledge, Walmart is the only major retailer which has had long-term success with everyday low pricing. A big part of that is because they have incredibly vast buying power and can negotiate regular prices which are equivalent to sale prices elsewhere (though seasoned gatherers know that they're not always the cheapest for everything). But Walmart also targets the low end of the market, and once you get above that, their marketing methods don't work. People have been thoroughly trained to look for sale prices at mid-tier retailers, and even if the everyday low price is the same or better as the sale price, trying to change the mentality of millions of people is a task too large for even a major retailer. 15 hours ago - Via Google+ - View - Reet Vahesalu : Good morning FREE WORLD :) Here is one of my all time favourite reads: The Declaration of Independence... Good morning FREE WORLD :) Here is one of my all time favourite reads: The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.  He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.  He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:  For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.  He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.  He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated: Column 1 Georgia:    Button Gwinnett    Lyman Hall    George Walton Column 2 North Carolina:    William Hooper    Joseph Hewes    John Penn South Carolina:    Edward Rutledge    Thomas Heyward, Jr.    Thomas Lynch, Jr.    Arthur Middleton Column 3 Massachusetts: John Hancock Maryland: Samuel Chase William Paca Thomas Stone Charles Carroll of Carrollton Virginia: George Wythe Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Harrison Thomas Nelson, Jr. Francis Lightfoot Lee Carter Braxton Column 4 Pennsylvania:    Robert Morris    Benjamin Rush    Benjamin Franklin    John Morton    George Clymer    James Smith    George Taylor    James Wilson    George Ross Delaware:    Caesar Rodney    George Read    Thomas McKean Column 5 New York:    William Floyd    Philip Livingston    Francis Lewis    Lewis Morris New Jersey:    Richard Stockton    John Witherspoon    Francis Hopkinson    John Hart    Abraham Clark Column 6 New Hampshire:    Josiah Bartlett    William Whipple Massachusetts:    Samuel Adams    John Adams    Robert Treat Paine    Elbridge Gerry Rhode Island:    Stephen Hopkins    William Ellery Connecticut:    Roger Sherman    Samuel Huntington    William Williams    Oliver Wolcott New Hampshire:    Matthew Thornton http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html Watch the video: John Quincy Adams Addresses the U.S. Supreme Court.wmv 2 days ago - Via Reshared Post - View - Daniel J. Stern : So okeh, if I opt out of the extra screening, I am subject to extra screening. I think I understand. ... So okeh, if I opt out of the extra screening, I am subject to extra screening. I think I understand. Or well maybe I don't. 6 days ago - Via Google+ - View - Daniel J. Stern : Oh hai credit card cumpny. I've still got some room left on this credit card, why's it been rejected?... Oh hai credit card cumpny. I've still got some room left on this credit card, why's it been rejected? Oh really? No, I didn't try to spend $830 at NewEgg Electronics this morning, thanks for catching that. Yes, FedEx arriving tomorrow by noon'll be fine. 7 days ago - Via Google+ - View - Steve Arrants : Just these 7? Are there more types? Just these 7? Are there more types? 7 Employees You Should Fire Now It's a crazy competitive world out there--you can't afford to have employees who aren't cutting it. 8 days ago - Via Google+ - View - Matthew Keller : Is there any way to shut off the stupid, fucking G+ algorithm that sends all recent posts to the ass-... Is there any way to shut off the stupid, fucking G+ algorithm that sends all recent posts to the ass-end of nowhere, and keeps all of the "ME TOO!" horseshit bubbling at the top for days? I'd like chronological, please. Where is that setting? 10 days ago - Via Google+ - View - Bill Pusztai : All digital communications — meaning telephone calls, emails, online chats and the like — are automatically... All digital communications — meaning telephone calls, emails, online chats and the like — are automatically recorded and stored and accessible to the government after the fact. GREENWALD: Are All Telephone Calls Recorded And Accessible To The US Government? A former FBI counterterrorism agent claims on CNN that this is the case. 16 days ago - Via Google+ - View - Nessa Deuces : Every time I'm in the kitchen, you're in the kitchen. In the gotdamn refrigerator. Eatin up all the... Every time I'm in the kitchen, you're in the kitchen. In the gotdamn refrigerator. Eatin up all the food 16 days ago - Via Mobile - View - Jonathan Witherspoon : Watch the video: Tornado Soccer - Trailer John Witherspoon 2013 Spring Soccer Preview 17 days ago - Via YouTube - View - Mike d'Arnaud : I had coconut water again yesterday. I figured I'd give it a second chance. Still gross. I had coconut water again yesterday. I figured I'd give it a second chance. Still gross. 18 days ago - Via Google+ - View - Bill Pusztai : Phyllostachys nigra, Black Bamboo. Phyllostachys nigra, Black Bamboo. 21 days ago - Via Google+ - View - Steve Arrants : Why The New Yorker Doubles Consonants To judge by letters from readers, the doubling of consonants in such words as “traveller” and “focussed” is a subject of undying interest. 22 days ago - Via Google+ - View - Josh King : "Advice for Raising Godly Children" Number 7 was a kick to my face. #parenting #tf "Advice for Raising Godly Children" Number 7 was a kick to my face. #parenting #tf Advice for Raising Godly Children Ten pithy sayings from John Witherspoon, Scottish Presbyterian pastor, President of Princeton (1768-1794), and signer of the Declaration of Independence, on parental authority and child rearing: 1. Th... 26 days ago - Via feedly - View - Valerie W. : Watch the video: Boondocks Voice Cast Grandad John Witherspoon re-uploaded.. Enjoy. 1 month ago - Via Community - View - DataVerse : QlikCommunity: QlikView Design Blog : Synthetic Keys In a well visited post on the community forum, John Witherspoon some time ago asked “Should We Stop Worrying and Love the Synthetic Key?” John's post begins: “Synthetic keys have a bad reputation. The... 1 month ago - Via Reshared Post - View - Michael Sheils : What a way to end tonights Game Of Thrones. It just keeps getting better every week. What a way to end tonights Game Of Thrones. It just keeps getting better every week. 1 month ago - Via Google+ - View - Lennis Boyd : Starting Friday, April 19th, BET’s Centric Network is adding the Byron Allen sitcoms Mr. Box Office and... Starting Friday, April 19th, BET’s Centric Network is adding the Byron Allen sitcoms Mr. Box Office and The First Family to their network programming. Mr. Box Office stars Bill Bellamy & Vivica A. Fox, and The First Family stars Christopher B. 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