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Price Reductions
For all the years that I have been in business, I have learned to pay attention to the economy. I have seen many times over the years in the past how it has fluctuated from good to bad. Generally, the process has lasted 6 to 8 months. We are now in the beginning of a bad [...]
Canada suspends many tariffs
CANADA SUSPENDS TARIFFS (Bloomberg) -- Canada has effectively suspended almost all of its retaliatory tariffs on US products, tamping down inflation risks and improving its growth.“ It’s a very strategic approach from a new prime minister to really say, ‘We’re not going to have a retaliation,’” Tony Stillo, Oxford’s director of Canada economics, said in an [...]
quotes
INTERESTING COMMENTS PERTAINING TO POLITICIANS The oldest one I could find is from Plato. “Those who are too smart to engage in politics punished by being governed by those who are dumber.” Even back then we see things haven’t changed. Carl Sandberg “A politician should have three hats. One for throwing in [...]
DO YOU KNOW?
DID YOU KNOW? I did some research this morning to educate myself on the tariffs [taxes, import duties] an importer pays to the US government when a shipment arrives of what was ordered. The tariff [taxes, import duties] I found is 2% to 20% worldwide with China being 20% prior to the announcement of the new tariffs [...]
good news
SOME GOOD NEWS On Saturday Kok and I were reviewing materials in our warehouse for a large order we had received for the military. What I learned that day was that we had a substantial amount of black Supplex, way more than I thought we had. As a result of the find I have lowered the prices of [...]
Cold Weather Parkas
The situation that is unfolding at this time with respect to outerwear imports, specifically parkas for cold weather wear, has led me to bring back the Barren Grounds Parka made with both whatever we have left of Ducksback material and our inventory of Supplex. In addition, I am now offering the Antarctic parka in Supplex as [...]
The small things...
Sometimes there are small things that enter your life that are enjoyable. As I have written, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer in May 2019 and then had shingles in September 2019. The shingles on my forehead caused me to shave my head. Up until then I had straight hair. 7 or 8 months ago I [...]
odds and ends
ODDS AND ENDS Estella has been surfacing odds and ends. I will be posing these items as a weed through them. The first 3 on the list are as follows. 1- ALASKA RANGE PARKA COLOR MAROON THAT IS PERMANENTLY INSULATED, EXTRA LARGE. How this came to be I have no idea. It might have been a custom item returned. The [...]
New Offering
For several years, I have been asked by hunters for international orange garments. I was left with several hundred yards of a 200-denier Oxford nylon fabric. I have decided to offer three items in the international orange color: the Antarctic parka for $400.00, the vest shown on the website as a nomex vest, but the price is the same [...]
a history lesson
A HISTORY LESSON The following took place in the 1960’s. “Despite this prosperity, major shifts were occurring in American business and the workforce. Preexisting corporations were merging and becoming larger, more powerful conglomerates. Consumers increasingly were doing their shopping at discount chain stores and dining at inexpensive fast-food restaurants, leading to a decrease in the number of [...]