The soft retail market and other possible indicators of an economic bubble, particularly in tech

[cyc wid it]

End goal is probably to negotiate for lower fees as opposed to dropping them. Mastercard is probably the best for both customers/retailers right now.

 

[kiya]



A lot of retailers are dropping Visa due to high fees. The most visible is probably Walmart Canada.

What retailers are you referring to? That is seriously the most short-sighted business decision i've heard in a while.

 

[djblisk]



Smoking is steadily falling out of favor, but very gradually. And it's not like it's going to disappear overnight. Plus the big tobacco companies are pretty much going to have a stranglehold on the vaping industry if the FDA's draconian deeming regulations go into effect unaltered.

Meh. I made good money off of it. Thats my take on the company.

 

[venividivicibj]

THE SKYYYYYY

 

[the shah]

I've linked other stories related to the "decline of art world at the hands of tasteless capitalist swine" but here's yet another take relating it to the topic of this thread

where company valuations used to be concerns that were tertiary to their identity, how much a company is worth now defines it. This change looks an awful lot like what has happened in the world of art. Later this week, for example, artists, curators, gallerists, and buyers will assemble at the blingiest of the art world’s annual big-money fairs, Art Basel, in Switzerland. The wealth on display, and the market’s influence on how the work is received, has become, over the decades, a permanent feature of the event.

http://www.newyorker.com/business/c...-learn-from-the-art-world?mbid=social_twitter

 

[djblisk]

Well.. it looks like it is happening.

 

[cyc wid it]

Twilio

 

[Jr Mouse]



Well.. it looks like it is happening.

 

[the shah]

So that impending collapse still hasn't happened, Evernote is alive and well

http://nyti.ms/2bMWnrU

 

[ThinkDerm]

the collapse was avoided by an avalanche of menswear sales...

 

[kiya]

One of the most famous (higher end) streetwear stores in the world (Reed Space) is closing down:
http://www.boweryboogie.com/2016/08/reed-space-calls-quits-15-years-orchard-street-seeks-new-digs/

 

[the shah]

Trump got everyone bullish here ?

Millennium tower in SF is sinking
http://www.sfgate.com/news/science/...-s-sinking-tower-seen-from-space-10640875.php

 

[djblisk]

Man. Was I really wrong about the market.

 

[the shah]

Bump