http://www.intheav.com/Few Blognointheav.comintheav.com RSS-generatorhttp://www.intheav.com/blogs/fewenuff/2011/12/29/year-over-year-yippeeLet us ponder: Merchant Holiday year over year sales up 3.8% That is to my understanding the raw increase in dollars. Not adjusted for nothing. Sales revenue went up 3.8% WooWhoo! Reality check: Inflation as we all are experiencing is between 4-15% depending on who's stats you wish to use. Inflation means that if you bought X items last year they cost 4-15% more this year. Assuming the obvious Cost = Sales revenues at least in the raw numbers and stats reported. Roughly we purchased X items for 4-15% more in cost as last year. Number of items bought/sold are either the same or less. Count the deep discounts in order to meet the 3.8% increase in sales revenues and WOOWHOO now that's growth you can believe in!!! DAMN the private sector is starting to use guberment math. Yes with the discounts more than X items might have been sold BUT those inflation facts just keep bringing us back to a starker reality. Even with those discounts the numbers did not exceed the rate of inflation at its lowest estimation. Oooops Success = Sales Revenue > Cost What part of these figures and stats are a positive indication of what federal government economic policies have wrought in the USA? NONE IMHO... The numbers I used here are out there on multiple websites and from many sources. google them... Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!!! "All Is Well" lan astaslem Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:43:24 +0000