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@rms1954 wrote:

Maybe the majority of people want cheap clothing at cheap prices.  I'd rather spend money on quality, unique, and stylish clothing.

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@rms1954 

Your right, for the prices QVC charges it SHOULD BE QUALITY....but how many comments and reviews complain about cheap chintzy fabrics, piling, shrinking, fading....inconsistent sizing...and STYLISH....LOL!!!  

[LizzieInSRQ]

I just get the idea that you would find happiness in QVC's demise...and i think that is strange.. ima gonna go find me some gossip cuz ima so shallow and stupid.like you say. 

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@chessylady wrote:

@Foxxee There are reasons why a recession is being predicted. Wall Street is nervous about the unpredictability of tariffs, companies are laying off people, there is a certain curve that has predicted the last 5 recessions that has now occured and believe it or not, RV sales are down which is a predictor. We are overdue since the last recession happened 10 years ago. The tax cut ran up our deficit and did not put money back into the economy. Most are predicting the recession for 2020 or 2021.

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@chessylady 

If the media continues to talk it up, scaring everyone, we WILL have a recession because people will stop buying.  Tariff, tariffs, tariffs.  Recession, recession, recession.  

Wall Street is nervous every other day.  All one needs to do is sneeze.  But, I do know overreactions can cause serious consequences.  

Why be concerned about tariffs when we have no idea what will happen.  The latest increase was stopped.  So, it's wait and see for me and hoping for the best.

I also know recessions occur aproximately every 10 years.  The way I see it, just because they have been occurring every 10 years, we should create the circumstances that cause one every 10 years so we can say they occur every 10 years???  

As for the tax cuts, it's also government spending contributing to the deficit.  They know how to spend money big time. Predictions were the deficit would rise even more without the tax cuts.  Tax cuts got the economy moving.  

If there is a recession, I'm holding the media responsible because they created it, and we should know by now why they are doing this.

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No. Media doesn't cause recessions. Period.

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@rms1954 wrote:

Maybe the majority of people want cheap clothing at cheap prices.  I'd rather spend money on quality, unique, and stylish clothing.

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I do not know too many people that dress today. Most folks can make it wearing neat comfortable clothes. 

I do not buy at Walmart, but do like TJ Maxx-Marshall. Walmart is very busy and crowded. I have shopped at Marshall's for 40 years.

Most people buy online. Amazon etc. You can find beautiful clothes you just have to look. 

I do not like the word cheap. You can not measure quality by price. 

QVC is losing market share. The reasons, high prices, slow shipping, and poor customer service.

[insomniac2]

Not all TJ Maxx stores are equal: ours is very junky.

As someone noted about this whole issue--"apples and footballs."

[sashamatthews]

Years ago, my mother called me.  Our local TJM had a slew of Bottega Veneta bags on the shelf.  I immediately went there and bought them all!  There used to be "Designer Days," and once it was a Saks 5th Avenue day and that was another haul.  Chanel shoes used to show up in the shoe inventory.  It was just grand to be able to find merchandise I couldn't afford at full retail.  Today, I go to TJM or HG maybe once every six to eight weeks.  I am lucky if I find one thing to buy these days.

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@Kachina624 wrote:

@ellaphant.  Wal-Mart hires mostly unskilled labor and trains them.  I'm very much against paying workers with marginal skills high starting pay.  In doing so you reward them for not acquiring skills and reduce the incentive to acquire scalable skills, which might benefit society as a whole.  A person's ability to reproduce should not determine his pay on a job.  We have low or no cost training programs through local workforce development nationwide as well as in community colleges so there's no excuse for a person not taking advantage of these opportunities.  Instead they'd rather whine that places won't pay them, in their unskilled stste, $15 per hour.

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@Kachina624 

These jobs were envisioned to be "starter jobs" where workers gained some knowledge and skills and then up to them where they grew in careers in the future, whether in Management or move on to something else.....  Sadly due to the economic state of certain parts of the country these became primary jobs which they were really never designed to be.....so now they want higher wages which doesnt match the skillset...a dilemma...you want people to be self sufficient... but the wage demands mean we all will pay higher prices, which in turn will mean more demands for even higher wages a vicious cycle......

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@LizzieInSRQ wrote:

I just get the idea that you would find happiness in QVC's demise...and i think that is strange.. ima gonna go find me some gossip cuz ima so shallow and stupid.like you say. 

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@LizzieInSRQ 

I never said you were shallow or stupid....you were the one being snarky and I just explained where I was coming from....and I couldnt understand why if  you're not interested in the threads I post, why waste your valuable time on something you don't like or enjoy.....  Peace!

Perhaps what me and MANY long time customers are are saying---we tried to tell you QVC...what you are doing isn't working....  

Customers keep leaving good feedback and suggestions regarding QVC and why they are watching and shopping less, yet the Qurate Executives scratch their head and can't figure out the reason why sales are declining especially in certain categories and the answers are right in front of them....Wouldn't hurt them to try out a few customer suggestions instead of the lame stuff we are seeing with new show titles and host but limited merchandise and uncompetivie and unrealistic prices...then they wonder why their home and apparel categories are in trouble.  I DO want to see QVC suceed as a shopping option, their strength is we get to see products actually demonstrated instead of turning their hosts into psuedo celebrities and merchandise is secondary....

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@insomniac2 wrote:

Not all TJ Maxx stores are equal: ours is very junky.

As someone noted about this whole issue--"apples and footballs."

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I agree. The location makes the difference. I would buy socks, Pj's, bedding, and household goods. The best value in my local store was leather handbags. 

[Nuttmeg]

@Foxxee The economy maybe in trouble moving forward.