Thread: Dear Santa Letters Ask For Clothes, Shoes, Not Toys

Thursday, December 16, 2010 4:25 PM

Dear Santa Letters Ask For Clothes, Shoes, Not Toys

Looking for the reason behind soaring apparel sales and weak sales at Best Buy? You can find an explanation in Sad Santa Letters that the United States Post Office opens a reads as part of "Operation Santa". http://abcnews.go.com/US/sad-santa-lett ... d=12403172

With just nine days to go until Santa shimmies down those chimneys, letters to the big, jolly guy are coming in fast and furious. "The common theme this year seems to be a single mom with young kids, the parent has left -- they don't know who the father is, or the father left -- and they can't pay the bills," said Pete Fontana, head of the United States Postal Service Operation Santa in New York.

"We had one little girl write in and say all she wants is a winter coat for her mom. Nothing for herself," he said. "We had another letter for grandparents and they wanted to put a turkey with the trimmings for the holiday dinner ... but they couldn't even get their medicine."

Other letters are similarly heartbreaking.

Eight-year-old Skayla told Santa that her mother doesn't have a job and her father lives in the Dominican Republic, leaving it up to her grandmother to buy everything. She asked for clothes and shoes for herself, her 7-year-old sister and their infant brother, even including their sizes.

"Thanks Santa," she wrote," I LOVE YOU."

How You Can Help

If you want to help make a Christmas wish come true, the best way is to Contact a local post office participating in Operation Santa. http://www.usps.com/communications/news ... ParticList

Industrywide Demand for Electronics is Soft

Please consider Best Buy cuts outlook as results disappoint. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/best-b ... 2010-12-14

Dec. 14, 2010, 12:55 p.m. EST

The No. 1 U.S. electronics retailer’s profit fell as lower demand for televisions, notebook computers and videogames led to a sales shortfall in the U.S. While margin widened slightly, analysts said they were concerned that it came at the expense of sales.

Best Buy Co. shares tumbled more than 15% Tuesday, their biggest decline in more than eight years, after the retailer reported an unexpected decline in fiscal third-quarter profit and cut its outlook.

“There’s interest there from consumers on the latest and greatest, but really they are making trade-offs in their discretionary spending, not only across CE [consumer electronics], but within CE categories, where there are periods of time we may have historically seen them buy multiple large products in a year, they are being more choosey at this point in time,â€

This is what those TREASONOUS Fools in DC have done while they continue to push for AMNESTY

you have lost your homes
you have lost your jobs
your children need cloths food and shoes at Christmas while tax payer money will send Illegals to College

I don't think so

Get Busy America .. get on the phones and stop this

Here at work, we have an "angel tree" for kids that may not receive gifts at Christmas. The cards that were not taken tend to have names of Juan and Rosalia rather than African American or Anglo names. Folks are fed up with the freeloaders.