Kicking it off with one of the Biggest Companies in the umpanie kicking the habit. Cvs caremark saying thaemark will stop selling Tobacco Products by october 1. Very interesting, they say they will stop selling Tobacco Products. A big change. The 7600 stores that they operate in the u. S. Are goingin. Their largest provider of prescription drugs says thon this will cut anthis revenue by 2 billion. Lion they are losing sales not only from cigarettes, but from people who might have been stopping in and buying other things. This is as they try to become more of a health care company. Every day we are helping millions of patients manage chronic conditions, like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetero all of these conditiofs arsemade worse by smoking. Tobacco products have no place in a setting where health care is delivered. When we ked ourselves where wersel expect to be in the future a inh health care company, it became clear that removing Tobacco Products from our stores is
Shpping. Dont hold your breath thinking that we are at the verge of breaking in a record. Not that the record numbers werent out there shopping. Lets just say that they werent doing a lot of buying one is much buying. So monday we did see a 3 decline. That is what the National Retail federation is expecting. Target sales . Dollar sales . They are seng a decline in the amount of the average person is spending. In the population increases every year. Overall we may see the total sales rise. But its th amount that the average person is spending and cybermonday is a different story. People have been collecting the offers, retailers have been getting very aggressive and so efficie. People are having more confidence to shopping online and getting products before christmas and thats driving more salesonline. Neil the argument is that more and more are veering with Online Purchases and that will maybe save the retailers. You agree . I agree that we will see more people doing this online. But s
Shopping. Dont hold your breath thinking that we are at the verge of breaking in a record. Not that the record numbers werent out there shopping. Lets just say that they werent doing a lot of buying one is much buying. So monday . We did see a 3 decline. That is what the National Retail federation is expecting. Target sales . Dollar sales . They are seeing a decline in the amount of the average person is spending. In the population increases every year. Overall we may see the total sales rise. But its the amount that the average person is spending and cybermonday is a different story. People have been collecting the offers, retailers have been getting very aggressive and so efficient. People are having more confidence to shopping online and getting products before christmas and thats driving more sales online. Neil the argument is that more and more are veering with Online Purchases and that will maybe save the retailers. You agree . I agree that we will see more people doing this onli
And oil gained 1. 29 starbucks ceo is feeling frustrated with the lack of action out of washington. So Howard Shultz is starting a petition today available to the public in cafes and online urging lawmakers to reopen the government and pay its bills. Shutlz calls it a platform to give americans a voice their outrage. Investors were busying buying safeway stock in bulk after the bell. Shares rose nearly 5 in heavy volume. Grocery store operator revenues topped expectations, reduced its forecast for the year. And revealed plans to exit all dominicks stores in chicago by next year. Scott shellady of trean is here to talk about the big rally. What a great trading opportunity that was. But was the rally premature . I dont think so. I think that with the rhetoric we saw yesterday we just went back to where we were befor all this garbage in washington started to happen. I think the equity market was one that took the negative washington sentiment the most. You didnt see that move in the 10 ye
Begining to hold mr. Obama himself accountable for what is now knocking less than an utter fiasco. It is a decided change of voice and tone within the democratic party. Senator shaheen called upon the enrollment to stop until its working properly. Mark begich joining the chorus just moments ago. Fellow democrats, bill nelson of florida calling the obamacare rollout inexcusable. He told the white house to fire whoever is responsible for the barely functional website on which the Obama Administration spend hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. Congressman congressman rick no one effectively told the president to grow up and take ownership of the obamacare mass. To let us know whos responsible and to fire them. The New York Times is defending health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius, while placing the blame for the obamacare disaster squarely on the president. The Washington Post featured a frontpage article today on the already Failing Health care system. The networks of