MakingChanges
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Are the 2/1699 deals permanently gone on suits, or just temporarily removed?
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You can get similar Red Wings on Amazon for $200 or so after discounts. If you sign up for the Amazon Shoe subscription emails, you get 20% off your first pair of shoes that are bought from Amazon itself (cannot be third party sellers). I have to admit that the options, in terms of color, are different so the ones on Amazon might not be the ones you want. The BB ones are a beauty, but they certainly do cost a chunk of money.I'm thinking of buying a pair of the BB Red Wing Iron Rangers, but am wondering if I should hold off for a sale. Are those one of the "standard exclusions," or would those generally go on sale along with everything else? 30% can be quite a chunk of change.
Head up guys, some of newer BB Peal shoes went up by $50.00. These were $598.00 recently now they are $648.00
http://www.brooksbrothers.com/Peal-...ar_MH00231_Color=BLCK&contentpos=31&cgid=0522
People need to start complaining, that is a ridiculous hike if it happens every year.
People need to start complaining, that is a ridiculous hike if it happens every year.
How so?
Our economy is in a state of stagflation similar to the mid-1970s. Prices are rising because the Fed is flooding the world with money and monetizing the US debt (its most recent purchase from Primary Dealers was for Treasury instruments issued only two weeks prior). The housing crash and an accounting trick called "hedonics" are masking inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index. The largest component of CPI (a bit under 25% weighting) is something called "Owner's Equivalent Rent", wherein the Bureau of Labor Statistics calls up homeowners and asks them "if you were to put your house up for rent, how much would you expect to charge". Obviously as housing prices have fallen, so has the wild-ass-guess called OER. Hedonics comes from the same root as the word "hedonism", and is a measurement of the "pleasure" derived from a product. Using hedonics, BLS has declared that the replacement of the iPad with the iPad 2 at the same price is deflationary, as is the replacement of a $299 27" CRT television with a $1000 plasma screen.
Meanwhile the costs of basic foodstuffs - sugar, flour, milk, etc. - have increased anywhere from 70% to 250% since 2008. As have Brooks Brothers shoes.