“Hasbro posted second quarter sales of $829.3 million, up 8.2% compared to last year. Sales fell short compared to consensus estimates at $839 million. Despite the increase in topline sales growth, earnings were down and fell by 8.2% to $33.5 million.” Of course, this was the quarter they shipped TRANSFORMERS – sales are counted when […]

Now you can pay for your banana cream pie with a 3 Stooges Pre-Paid Credit Card … via Card.com …

In Reston, Manitoba (the one in Canada) will sell you a plot of land of $10 (well, technically, it’s $1,000 but once you start to build, they refund you $990. Looks like a lively town with all the amenities including phone service. 🙂 And hopefully the promise of golf though clearly in Canada, you tee […]

You stand watch. I’ll smash this glass with a rock. We’ll be rich, I tell you! Rich!

Bottom line – Sales are down but profits are up thanks to cost cutting & higher prices. Monster High did well and Barbie was up. “Looking at our second quarter results, we executed well and delivered solid performance despite the backdrop of a very challenging global economic climate that’s driving volatility in input costs and […]

From “Mass Market Retailer,” the industry trade magazine. “This is Kmart’s 50th anniversary. The first Kmart opened on March 1, 1962, in Garden City, Mich. That was the year, as well, that both Walmart and Target opened their initial discount stores.” You can read the rest here …  

(there are a few clouds) Lou D’Ambrosio, Sears Holdings’ CEO/president, said, “It’s also important to distinguish between our earnings issue and the strength of our balance sheet, where we have significant assets and liquidity. We are further strengthening the balance sheet by approximately $1 billion through the actions we are announcing today regarding Hometown, outlet, […]

Pretty interesting book …. Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure Some excerpts … “I spent the summer of 2005 studying poker. I interviewed some of the best players in the world, attended the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, analyzed “pokerbots” — poker-playing computers — and chronicled the efforts of highly rational players, […]

Perhaps fun is not the right word but seeing it on flatbed trucks is a lot easier to envision what’s going on in Europe … You can see the full chart here … this is literally just the morning load at 7 AM load … the truck is coming for a ton more loads … […]

As you might know, Mattel announced the Q4 and 2011YTD earnings report yesterday … as a CARS buyer concerned with what’s going at retail … What does it all mean? Fourth Quarter Highlights Worldwide net sales up 1% from the prior year; Domestic gross sales down 2% and international gross sales up 5%; Worldwide gross […]