EEUU destruye empleo

Fuente: Zerohedge.com

¿Esta es la recuperación que nos vende EEUU?  Mucho me temo que hacen magia con las
cifras de empleo que publican.......







Compañías afectadas por ajustes:

*Clothing company Fruit of the Loom announced Thursday that it will permanently close its plant in Jamestown and lay off all 600 employees by the end of the year.

 The company, owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway but headquartered in Bowling Green, said the move is "part of the company's ongoing efforts to align its global supply chain" and will allow the company to better use its existing investments to provide products cheaper and faster.The company said it is moving the plant's textile operations to Honduras to save money.

*Quiznos has filed for bankruptcy, USA Today reported, and could close many of its 2,100 stores.

*Sbarro which operates pizza and Italian restaurants in malls, is planning to close 155 locations in the United States and Canada. That means nearly 20 percent of Sbarro’s will close. The chain operates around 800 outlets.

*Ruby Tuesday announced plans to close 30 restaurants in January after its sales fell by 7.8 percent. The chain currently operates around 775 steakhouses across the US.

*An unknown number of Red Lobster stores will be sold. The chain is in such bad shape that the parent company, Darden Restaurants Inc., had to issue a press release stating that the chain would not close. Instead Darden is planning to spin Red Lobster off into another company and sell some of its stores.

*Ralph’s, a subsidiary of Kroger, has announced plans to close 15 supermarkets in Southern California within 60 days.

*Safeway closed 72 Dominick’s grocery stores in the Chicago area last year.

 *As you read this article, approximately a billion square feet of retail space is sitting vacant in the United States.

* Last week, Radio Shack announced that it was going to close more than a thousand stores.

* Last week, Staples announced that it was going to close 225 stores.

* Same-store sales at Office Depot have declined for 13 quarters in a row.

* J.C. Penney has been dying for years, and it recently announced plans to close 33 more stores.

* J.C. Penney lost 586 million dollars during the second quarter of 2013 alone.

* Sears has closed about 300 stores since 2010, and CNN is reporting that Sears is "expected to shutter      another 500 Sears and Kmart locations soon".

* Overall, sales numbers have declined at Sears for 27 quarters in a row.

* Target has announced that it is going to eliminate 475 jobs and not fill 700 positions that are currently empty.

* It is being projected that Aéropostale will close about 175 stores over the next couple of years.

* Macy's has announced that it is going to be closing five stores and eliminating 2,500 jobs.

* The Children’s Place has announced that it will be closing down 125 of its "weakest" stores by 2016.

* Best Buy recently shut down about 50 stores up in Canada.

* Video rental giant Blockbuster has completely shut down all of their stores.

* It is being projected that sales at U.S. supermarkets will decline by 1.7 percent this year even as the overall      population continues to grow.

* McDonald's has reported that sales at established U.S. locations were down 3.3 percent in January.

* A home appliance chain known as "American TV" in the Midwest is going to be shutting down all 11 stores.

* Even Wal-Mart is struggling right now.  Just check out what one very prominent Wal-Mart executive recently    admitted...