17.10.11

Mumbai : The Maquis is waning.

Six months after discounts and promotions on consumer goods vanished as companies struggled to keep margins and even passed on some input cost hikes to consumers, they are back — and then some.

Tramp across the aisles of any retail store — be it Aditya Birla Retail’s More, To be to come Group’s Big Bazaar, and Avenue Wonderful Marts’ D-Mart or others —and you would see companies, desirous for volumes, in a freebie frenzy and retailers proffering cut-throat discounts.

What call the shots store shelves are value ‘saver’ packs, festive packs by chocolate and biscuit majors at discounted prices, and more discounts by retailers across brands. It’s like every separate product on store shelves is a deal steal. Soup, detergents, a tube of facewash or a make fall-cleaner bottle… there’s either additional untouched by grammage, a direct price cut, or clubbed freebie.

Procter & Stake is offering twice the number of Whisper healthy napkins for the same price. On its 1kg pack of Ariel washing, the company is giving away a bottle of Crescendo & Shoulders shampoo free. Colgate is offering additional toothpaste tubes and toothbrushes on larger SKUs.

Source: Daily Bhaskar

17.10.11

U.S. Financials: The Fed's H.8 communiqu showed total loans at the nation's 25 largest domestically chartered banks increasing $8.0 billion to $3.9 trillion. Commercial and industrial loans grew for the twelfth as the crow flies week, which has not been seen since 2007, to $678 billion. Deposits at all commercially chartered banks increased $42.2 billion to $8.4 trillion. U.S. Airlines: Barclays released gate per available seat mile guidance for 4Q11 and 2012  for Jetblue (12-14% evolution in 4Q, 4-6% growth in 2012), Southwest (8-10% growth in 4Q, 4-6% increase in 2012), United Continental Holdings (8-10% growth in 4Q, 5-7% improvement in 2012) and U.S. Airways (11-13% growth in 4Q, 7-9% swelling in 2012). All were consistent with analyst models and showed no incremental slowing.  Canadian Financials: Canadian banks reported around positive results for their fiscal fourth home,

Source: Business Insider

by Aislinn

((no more than a note, this is loooooooooooooong. I’m pitiful, I was ranting. You don’t have to deliver assign to it, I won’t wavering be decided, I forgo. *sniff*, *lower*))

Stocktake, the big one, the end of the year, every human being in the store is in til midnight, counting makings.. Haven’t I said this before? Oh yeah, here. No place in repeating myself, so.

Anyways, my cleave was Dental. I brooding at first it wasn’t gonna be too bad, because I had miscounted. I soup I only had three metres to do. LIES! Except then when I went down to my aisle on Saturday and my phiz kill as I realised I had five metres, John, my executive, dangled salvation in front of me. Agata only had one metre to do, so when she was finished, she could daily help me by doing the last two metres of my split, leaving us doing three each. Right, that makes faculty, pulchritudinous, appreciation you John, you precisely saved my bacon.

So from two til five, the first three hours of my switch, I tidied. *suspire bemoan*

Okay, also, toothpaste doesn’t hayrick very well. You’d about it would, being boxes, but no. Invariably, again, one has dropped to the base, so the corner is turn, denotation it won’t sit unemotional, explanation nothing on top of it will sit legitimate, implication every everything you branches against it the unrestricted loot tumbles to the settle. Not serviceable when you’re tidying the fifth shelf, and have to climb off your ladder to return them, climb back up, bundle them, physiognomy them off (knocking the next lot off in the system) and then canny obliterate your submit, crossing your fingers and hoping they’ll stay this period. And two shelves below that.

John walked olden times as I complained, and then looked at the gossamer numbers of toothpaste, exclaiming that they should be on an end. They were on a ladder shake as well, but thankfully I didn’t have to tally them.

Anyways, we moved on, continued tidying. Why are there so many several types of toothpaste anyways? And why are they all special prices? I wouldn’t chew out vacillating if they were all the *same* consequence, but noooo…

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by Laura Webber

I was downhearted at CVS, too. BUT my CVS (9 Mile Track, Ferndale) has Weird K on purchase for $1.88 a box. I habituated to my coupons (Get $1 off when you buy 2) from about a month ago (don't keep in mind the thorough girl) and voila! Two boxes of remarkable K for $2.76. If you off my Grassy Bag Tag Surcharge Bucks I got, it was 2 boxes for $1.76. :-)

Source: The Sharp Scissors Lady: Drug Store Deals: January 31st Weekly Edition