"retailers" poems
Retailers hope to net profits with the overlapping of holiday seasons.
Thanksgiving is yet to be history; but, out comes the Christmas trimmings.
No big surprise seeing holiday reminders arriving and filling mail box,
comes with pre-season, this early blitz of commercials on tv now the net.
Early arrival of holiday brings bell ringers standing between shopper's exit,
a failure to repeat and repeat donations, brings looks of extreme displeasure.
Each and every time you enter or exit discount, drug, and many retail stores,
shoppers face not only bell ringers; but, 365 days donate at register requests.
Most can't equal billion dollar give aways by Bill and Melinda Gates' circle.
Most work extremely hard and donate but also choose to live on budgets.
I donate and have nothing against charities; but, how much should one give?
Retailers, putting shoppers on the spot, asking for donations upon check out?
Never a pinch penny when it comes to sharing when there's an "actual" need,
generosity is always a personal choice, I let guilt not be my companion in giving.
Multiple donations to canister's of amnesiac holiday bell ringers? Wont happen!
Nothing against legit charities; but, giving until you're broke, you "will" be needy.
Nov 23, 2013
Nov 23, 2013 at 8:04 AM UTC
Christmas countdown has begun and family members are on the run
Looking for the bargains everywhere, and how they get it they don’t care.
All the retailers have put up their displays
As they prepare for Christmas day.
Grocery stores and supermarkets with their specials on the floor
And in every aisle there are treats galore.
Turkeys and hams, candied yams too- all the treats just for you.
Department stores and shopping malls- filled with shoppers wall to wall.
The children are in total awe as they look from store to store.
And every new item that’s on TV. In the stores for them to see.
Yes! The Christmas countdown has begun. And the children
Are preparing for the fun, from bicycles and dolls and all the rest
Knowing they’ve gotten all the best.
Look around; look around, the Christmas spirit is all around.
MERY CHRISTMAS TO ONE AND ALL, THIS IS THE SEASON TO HAVE A BALL!
©L.RAMS 112214
Dec 2, 2014
Dec 2, 2014 at 10:38 PM UTC
So many places closed,
And what’s open you can’t get to
For ****** tourists.
Big black clouds are over:
A chill wind blows.
The workaday sun has gone.
Oh yes, it’s Bank Holiday.
The weather is foul
Yet everyone is out.
I can’t get parked.
The crowds slow down
My enforced march.
Our local chippy is closed.
A Doctor?
No chance!
January in May
And maybe in June.
Christmas is worse.
All those needless presents.
Gifts for the sake of it.
Keeping the retailers happy
At our expense.
I’m in a grumpy mood
But who can blame me?
I always try to be upbeat,
But not today.
Paul Butters
May 30, 2016
May 30, 2016 at 11:03 AM UTC
It was a night like this
That the world changed forever
Some say for the worse
Some say for the better
A child arrived
The King of Kings
The world would be different
So the Angel sings
Unto you a child is born
The Son of God by name
Some were happy he was here
Others not so that he came
Wars are fought in the belief
That their Lord is the one
But, truly isn't each sides Lord
Our God's only son
He never travelled far from home
His message and his word
Were spread throughout the many lands
His silence not deterred
He spoke the word of God himself
He performed miracles for some
He'd do so in His Holy name
And his end would swiftly come
He never made age thirty four
Thirty Three up on the cross
He gave his life for his beliefs
Would you do so....at that cost?
His birthday, do we celebrate
Each year, at least we try
School plays portray the Saviours birth
Then retailers tell us buy
The season is not retail based
It is the Celebration of The One
The importance of the season's lost
When the Christmas plays are done
This year, please take a moment
Think about what Christmas means
Think about The Son of God
Before you try on those new jeans....
Dec 20, 2013
Dec 20, 2013 at 9:55 PM UTC
The people crowd the entrances
at Malls all over town.
To seize the choicest bargain deals,
They’d gladly knock you down.
The retailers all hold their breath
as shopping gets in gear.
Will Santa fill his sleigh as hoped?
-or lay off more Reindeer?
There are plastic toys from China
colored with suspicious paint.
Whip out your last credit card
(-when you see the bills, you’ll faint.)
“The children must have Christmas! ”
No request will be denied.
Never mind your youngest child
has just turned thirty five.
Down forget a gift for you
Don’t you deserve the best?
Shopping is such good therapy
for the financially depressed
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Nov 9, 2015
Nov 9, 2015 at 11:23 AM UTC
Didn't learn much from school
but for a poker-face, how
not to **** in his trousers
and the surpassing value of quick getaways
'Twas losing that did the trick
especially that business of losing in love
I van detestable, desirous of love but
minus mandatory leveragables
Ends up instead, in a specimen jar
at his local sleep lab, filed under
'Good for REM Experiments'
and HAARPs started playing at night
Couldn't keep up with gollums
pimps or clockwork candymen
dispensing their oranger shade of pale
so he called up the creator of love
Himself ..... got the real deal
Seems the goodly church retailers
excommunicated him, for knowing too much
So, finally, he decides, to read and write
Oct 16, 2010
Oct 16, 2010 at 10:23 PM UTC
This time is precious,
every moment infectious.
One minute in a parking lot,
parking cigarettes in the dirt,
outside a library no less.
And from one minute to the next,
shaking hands with a councilwoman.
Just her presence,
was a good omen.
This is a community meeting,
ahead of a strike,
on May 15th.
Our fight?
Our cause?
Wage parity.
The resource vitality,
of every worker,
and every family.
Every human deserves dignity.
Repeat it with rapidity.
We are all created equal.
This is a civil rights sequel.
You can't survive on $7.93
And if it were up to me,
No job would pay less than
FIFTEEN.
The rich can't inoculate,
what they didn't anticipate.
Fry cooks, cashiers, drive-thru tellers,
(these ain't no "bums" or beggars!)
They met up with activists,
and labor leaders.
They've walked off the job
and into the streets!
They've come out,
to take a stand,
to shake off their chains,
and make some demands!
$15 and a union!!!
If you haven't taken notice,
I don't what you've been doin!!!
I hope McDonald's, Wal-Mart, and retailers galore,
value the profit-producers,
running their stores.
The notion upon which,
both capitalists and socialists can agree,
is that labor produces value according to theory.
The media are watching,
in case you need reminding.
Watching you rake in BILLIONS,
while paying and STEALING,
POVERTY WAGES.
We call this condition,
hard-working ENSLAVEMENT,
with pay-as-you-go debit card "paychecks"...
And all this "part-time"
just to make sure workers are best
nickel'd and dime'd!!
But what you don't seem to understand,
is that this movement is long overdue.
Do we need a historical inflation review?
And this $10.10 business?
Please!
What is this 1993?
You can't sanitize,
Baptize,
nor televise,
this struggle.
These are a people who've had enough.
'Ya Basta!' they say! 'Enough is Enough!'
Enough struggle,
enough hustle,
Enough putting in muscle,
and your time, and blood,
and sweat and tears,
many with children,
many for years,
without a pay bump that keeps pace,
with the basic cost of living these days.
Still a minimum wage,
of only $7.93?!
I say 'Ya Busta!'
if you ask me.
May 21, 2014
May 21, 2014 at 5:56 PM UTC
One year older
No more wiser
Aging an inevitability
Unwanted
like rain in summer
or a scuff on a new pair of shoes
A day for celebration
should be a day for mourning
black veils and chrysanthemums
a footstone for the grave
A retailers delight
for card companies and cake shops
not for halfhearted smiles
or aging discontent
For me, just another day
One year older
no more wiser
aging an inevitability
Jan 8, 2012
Jan 8, 2012 at 11:39 AM UTC
It’s the most bountiful time of the year.
All retailers are crowing
The profits are growing
They smile ear-to-ear
It’s their greatest time of the year.
We people are hocking,
To stuff our kids stockings,
Wth jewels we bought all year long.
We want to make sure
That we can insure
We don’t take a parental step wrong.
It’s the bankruptingest time of the year.
No one quite gives a ****
That the whole things a scam
To sell clothing and beer
We go further in debt every year.
We’ll fight to pay rent
Nearly thirty percent
Goes to pay all the interest off.
We take extra jobs
Like all working slobs
All year we don’t dare get a cough.
It’s the most co-dependent of times.
It’s all about image
And holiday scrimmage
As if we’re not a victim of crime.
And pretending we saved one little dime.
Dec 22, 2016
Dec 22, 2016 at 2:45 PM UTC
You’re an adult but miss being a kid , tired of a life requiring responsibility to get far
You decide to hide from it all and commit to just being a big kid but how with no toys
When you were younger your toys were your friends , stuffed animals and action figures
Before meeting you they all were nameless and hostage to a lonely retailers shelf
You felt connected as a mother giving birth to a childhood as you gave them purpose
Naming each and everyone, allowing them to tag along in all of your adventures
But that was then and this is now, how ridiculous you would appear with made up pals
Voiceless and choice-less, it’s just not the same kind of fun it was in your childhood
So now you contemplate and sit and ponder, it suddenly hits you like a bag of bricks: LEGOS
Toys with hearts is what you desire, with brains, with voices and real life emotions
So quickly you get excited realizing the possibilities of a completely filled toy-box
Is it fair to them to use them for your satisfaction as you toy with their emotions for fun
Nicer to some than others but the ultimate mission is to get them to ride your coattail
Never out for their benefit but rather yours as you see them as your childhood toys
At your dispersement as you see fit for your emotions and personal self benefits
And when they realize it and get fed up, they move on but your not bothered by this at all
Because just as a child it was only a matter of time before you outgrew them one by one
Then on to the next big hit, the next big trend and the old toys left to take the hit, ALONE
Well these real life toys have hearts and it’s just not the same as they are being tore apart
But you could careless as you witness the pain and agony you force them to face
As they lay in pieces astray, your mind has already moved on , gone without a trace
Well in time this may seem to work as you get your socks off to others hurt
But the reality is the play dates will come and go but before you know it’ll be to late
You’re a narcissist, not a kid and the real victims aren’t your friends but rather you
They tried to help and tried to get you to see but your to into yourself to ever care
A lifetime of new acquaintances is your life sentence as you are always losing loved ones
All the misfits you have offended all pray for the day you can finally grow up
Because regardless the pain you have caused them they are toys with hearts
They bleed, they cry, they can relate, they can hate but they choose not too
Because your not worth any of their emotions and that’s why you don’t deserve
Toys with hearts because there’s no such thing, it just doesn’t exist
They are people and you’re a
F❤️CKING NARCISSIST, with an empty toy box
May 14, 2021
May 14, 2021 at 8:01 AM UTC
To Whom it may concern,
I am unable to locate or purchase Dijonnaise at any local store in my area. This has been an issue since the beginning of 2021. Is this product being discontinued? Amazon and other online retailers offer highly marked up versions of this product but this East Coast/West Coast, Hellmann's/Bestfoods branding has always been off-putting to me, especially in this day and age plus I despise supporting Amazon or similar box stores/corporations. I would also be more likely to purchase Dijonnaise if it came in a glass container. Plastic is not what millennials want and it no longer "makes it possible" as the ads of yesteryear have stated. I use Dijonnaise very often, I am highly disappointed with the small and awkwardly shaped plastic containers, plastic squeeze bottles make it very difficult to expel or retrieve the entirety of the product. I am strongly considering switching to Durkee's brand mustard in the future as they have always used glass containers, I would mix it with Trader Joe's mayonnaise since it is the only one I can find in a glass container. I understand that the added weight of glass cuts into your profits when distributing your products but I have not seen an advertisement for Dijonnaise in years, where are all these profits being spent? The main reason I purchase Dijonnaise is for the nostalgia of the television ads I grew up watching containing a parody of the song "Duke of Earl". I would strongly recommend re-running these retro advertisements on YouTube ad services in the future if you want to keep this product in production. I feel there is no need to attempt re-creating these ads either, it would be a waste of resources and a disappointment to those who grew up with the original versions. I work in marketing and people are voting with their dollars nowadays, your structure and model could benefit from some evaluation. Please tell me how to buy your product locally and take note that myself and many others prefer plastic free packaging. Thanks for your time. Please do not sell my information or use it to contact me for anything not mentioned above.
Sincerely
...
The response I received was that the product has been discontinued. I was offered a coupon for a complimentary 8oz jar of Mayonnaise as it's the only product still available in a glass container. Unfortunately this is only sold on the opposite side of the Rocky Mountains from my location and only at limited locations. How dissatisfying...
Mar 10, 2021
Mar 10, 2021 at 12:45 PM UTC
Black Friday to me being “Red Caution Friday”
Retailers wanting consumers to buy
Take home their products and give them a try
But the question is always why?
But sometimes things get out of hand
Seems many people feel they are the most important in demand
In fact, some consumers make it their caravan
In seems, some consumers think the so called bargains are made just for them
Remember products are not yours until you purchase
No need to push and shelve
It’s respect with everything to think of
The retailers want to sell what cannot be sold
Some consumers think it is truly a sale and act bold
They use the lines as their threshold
The retailers are selling in what they don’t want
The consumers just chant
In fact they get defiant
Some consumers constantly fall into the retailers trap
But when you think about it, it is nothing but crap
Now don’t get me wrong
Some things that are being sold are exactly strong
But throughout, Consumers must understand how to get along
Black Friday sounds more like a “Death Sentence”
A one day affair brings out the preserver
The whole shopping experience turns into fear
Watch what you buy and see other Consumers in respect being I to I
I know a lot of readers will say so what and why
The question is not why, but treating others the way you would want to be treated
The term “Black Friday” doesn’t mean every consumer for them selves
Think about others and not self
Happy Shopping and survive!
Nov 22, 2015
Nov 22, 2015 at 5:11 PM UTC
UKFT has launched Made It, a collaboration between the trade body, Graduate Fashion Week and Marks & Spencer designed to bring together graduate designers and UK manufacturers.
As part of the initiative, which was launched at a reception at the Houses of Parliament last night, Marks & Spencer and the UKFT will sponsor a number of Graduate Fashion Week winners to have their collections made in the UK.
In addition, to promote a better understanding of UK manufacturers and to encourage designers to use them as their preferred source of manufacturing, the UKFT, Marks & Spencer and Graduate Fashion Week will host a series of Masterclasses at five select universities across the country.
Hosted by Damian Collins MP, UKFT and Graduate Fashion Week, the reception included a catwalk show and was attended by key policy makers, industry influencers, major retailers, leading brands and UK manufacturers, with special guests including Graduate Fashion Week ambassadors Alesha Dixon, Mandi Lennard and Caryn Franklin as well as designer Zandra Rhodes and fashion critic Suzy Menkes.
“The UK has some of the best designer graduates in the world and some of the most talented manufacturers – Made It brings them together. Not only will we see the creation of some stunning collections, the project will also help to ensure the success of the next generation in understanding the business of fashion, which is a fundamental part of UKFT’s purpose and key whether you are developing a new brand, working with manufacturers or growing business overseas,” said UKFT chairman Nigel Lugg.
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Nov 10, 2016
Nov 10, 2016 at 1:31 AM UTC
Priorities, we each have our own,
We each have a different list, we keep in our mind,
Certain events, around us, can change, one’s way,
Of life, fast, at various times.
It’s happened before, just look at history, of the past.
When the economy, money, is flowing slow, to keep,
What you own, and spending habits, have to change fast.
Some retailers, and friends, may frown when you slow down,
It’s a must if you want, your lifestyle to last.
It’s harder on the older folks, unlike the younger generation,
They do not have, the time in years, to earn more, and turn,
Their life, back around. Society today, so many living their life,
Un–needed enjoyment spending, they never try to save.
Many will have to, adjust, their life, staying home more often,
Entertaining themselves more, plan fewer trips each day, and only,
Buying necessities, when they can get to town. How long,
Will it last, no set date, or time, our politicians,
The players, continue keeping their mindset, leading,
Everyone closer to insane, this life is real, not a game.
The Original: Tom Maxwell © 7/28/22
Aug 11, 2022
Aug 11, 2022 at 11:46 AM UTC
The odd thing is that
Only certain people are
Allowed to get picked on
When she’s pretty
Maybe even itty-bitty,
She cannot be a target
When she is ugly.
Or has a different way of being,
She can only be a target.
It is acceptable to look at one
Who is so very different
And then keep on insulting
If he is a sports star
Then he must be wonderful
And is never to be picked on.
If he is smart and clever.
Wears glasses, maybe, then
He can only be less sought after.
It is said that all are
To be treated equally.
But this is never lived out.
She is told that she
Can be anything she wants,
As long as she looks the part.
She is told that she must
Be brilliant and then
Falls apart when she fails once.
It can be as bad as to create
One’s identity for her as
It is to deprive her of one.
He is told that
He must play sports
He must get perfect grades.
Perchance he doesn’t,
Opting instead for art,
Never aware of it’s hefty price.
Apparently only the
Pretty girls can pick
On others.
But the smart ones
Can throw a
Much, much larger punch.
When you are
At a disadvantage,
The ***** are in your court.
Because the pretty girl
Who has no real friends
Cannot be bullied.
It is not viewed
As something wrong
When done to certain people.
We accept that some
Get picked on, deciding
That it’s how the world works.
Because the popular guy
Who wants to dance
Does not understand pain.
Bullying is only seen
As taking one’s freedom. Never
As telling one how to live his life.
Because, somehow,
You are never allowed
To be pretty and smart.
Because you are
Only allowed to be
Society’s perception of you.
You are allowed to be fat.
But then you must be comedic.
Never can you be a fat dramatic.
Because it isn’t over until the fat lady sings.
She is always the comic relief.
Never is she the leading lady.
You are allowed to be short.
But then you must be petite.
Never are you just something ordinary.
Because retailers makes special jeans
For the tall and the short,
Forgetting how it highlights the differences.
We pick out the differences
And choose to make these
The prominent points.
We don’t look at what’s the same
Because then we’d have to admit
That none are really any better.
We all want to be better than
Someone else around us.
It’s simply the way the world goes around.
All I wanted was acceptance.
All she wanted was kindness.
All he wanted was to have fun.
But we all wanted to be seen
As something more than ourselves,
As something extraordinary.
We all want to
Feel amazing, to think
That we are worth a lot.
But only if we play
That role we were assigned
Are we allowed to feel we’re worth something.
Jun 15, 2015
Jun 15, 2015 at 12:57 PM UTC
Santa!
Santa's a yarn just spread by the masses.
To take money away from those lowly in classes.
Children told tales of fantasy.
Of Santa coming on Christmas Eve.
The children all want to keep up with the Jones's.
Even though parents are nearly on bottom bones's.
A crafty traditional racket.
Make retailers gain a packet.
Parents they struggle to make ends meet.
Just to score a Christmas treat.
And do the holy children care.
Do they,
Hell do they.
You build up debt, so their desires you meet.
A christmas free of debt would be truly good to greet!
Bah Hum bug!
LOL!
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Dec 14, 2013
Dec 14, 2013 at 7:29 AM UTC
Works, shifting hours and
contemporary sanity, laterals
of an old
establishment barely hears
the sound of the siren
A courtesy call for the
undeserving folks in expensive
suits; I say
I-Fuck-You-For-You-Fucked-Us
Mothers, when they hear their sons’
pockets empty they
cut 1/4 of their flesh:
We’ll restore you back to your
youthful glow with our 20’s to 40’s
Fathers who lost their will to provide:
Do good in the afterlife,
we’ll ring the church bells for you
Yellow-sulfur stomachs in the streets,
in the slums, near the Malacañang,
who did you vote? Was it worth it?
Those untouchable ‘iglesia ni manalo’
it takes someone who has totally nothing to lose
to take your fancy states down
with a gun.
The real saviors are the cigarette retailers
they keep everyone sane, helps those in need
keep their minds on the ground, away from
the commas and the commas and the commas.
All this, a notion. Notion that has nothing to do
with, no connection with, doesn’t exist to, irrelevant to,
rich kids who call themselves ‘cool kids’
and
self-proclaimed leaders who leads masses with lies
through a microphone
religious cults that mistook money for god (is there a god?)
human resources personnel who desperately
needs to die
bosses who just don’t give a ****
presidents who just don’t give a ****
policemen who just don’t give a ****
people who just don’t give a ****
substantial earners who just don’t give a ****
leeches who just don’t give a ****
you don’t give a ****
Aug 1, 2016
Aug 1, 2016 at 11:13 AM UTC
Muhammad B. Bradshaw's cheaper shop about masonic ring uk retailers.
Apr 24, 2015
Apr 24, 2015 at 5:38 AM UTC
Blessed are the sign makers
for they shall do overtime
social distancing notices
and warnings galore…
means extra work
for those who hope to inform.
Reflecting the changes
in a mixed up world…
There’s serif, sans serif, cursive,
leaded, kerned, font smoothed, curled.
Helvetica, Univers, Futura & Gill
Classic fonts urging you - Stand Still!…
Don’t cross that line…
Follow the science… Divine!
Do the 2 metre 2 step
the 1 metre Shimmy…
The retailers are back
saying Gimme, Gimme, Gimme.
Women want to shop…
Blokes just want to be blokes
and stand outside!
It’s a sign of the times folks…Stay Out!
Onside!
Goal!!!
However many trades hit the economic wall
the signmakers & writers out there, they’ll outlive us all!
Blessed are the sign makers!
Jun 29, 2020
Jun 29, 2020 at 4:48 AM UTC
It doesn't matter
no one understands
we're all light bombers
and distant lands like distant
dreams make it seem impossible
until the flares light
dropping tongues of fire,
I can hear them chattering through
the torn limb of a long night,
but it doesn't matter and it never did
we the transparent society have hid our dead in books and things that are
never read
dead print for the hard of hearing and lint rags dressed up in fancy tags and butchered by the retailers, but hell what do we care?
We go bare *** and they imagine bohemian glass, I'm glad the end is running in and when we're tossed into the ******* bin
maybe we'll start again.
They used to put malefactors in the stocks and throw rotten fruit at them,
now they put such men in tower blocks and give them window boxes where they grow their **** and you wonder why I bleed
I need another drink to sink the last one and one more to make sure.
Anyway running on fumes through these haunting ruins where it all begins
the world spins
more die
less try and we're told to buy
the latest
told that we're the greatest
and it doesn't really matter
because no one believes
it anyway.
Apr 24, 2016
Apr 24, 2016 at 8:38 AM UTC
“Men Ditch Suits, and Retailers Struggle to Adapt”
-Wall Street Journal, 25 March 2019
We all must be good comrades now
We all must wear good comradewear
As if we worked with wrench and plough
Instead of cruising an office chair
We all must be good comrades, da!
And from one’s well-lit office space
Sneer at “the suits” - so long, Grandpa!
And so decolonise this place
We all must be good comrades now -
But have you ever milked a cow?
Mar 28, 2019
Mar 28, 2019 at 4:04 PM UTC