Sears financials in 1953 to 2013
A review of one of my past posts....
Sears Financials in 1953:
Sears sells merchandise for $100.
Sears cost of production is 4/5 of the price.
What is Sears profit?
Sears Financials in 1963:
Sears sells merchandise for $100.
Sears cost of production is 4/5
of the price, or $80.
What is Sears profit?
Sears Financials in 1973:
Sears exchanges a set L of merchandise
for a set M of money.
The cardinality of Set M is 100.
Each element is worth one dollar.
Make 100 dots representing
the elements of the set M.
The set C, the cost of production,
contains 20 fewer points than
the set M represent the set C
as a subset of set M and
answer the following question:
What is the cardinality of the set P of profits?
Sears Financials in 1983:
Sears sells merchandise for $100.
Sears cost of production is $80
and Sears profit is $20.
Your assignment: underline the number 20.
Sears Financials in 1993:
By running Sweatshops,
Sears makes $20.
What do you think of this way of making a profit? What is wrong about it?
Topic for participation after answering the
question: How did the domestic workforce and their families feel as their jobs were shipped overseas and south of the border?
Is that a HUGH Truck in the mirror, or
is it walmart?
(There are no wrong answers.)
Sears Financials in 2003:
Sears sells merchandise for $100. Sears
cost of production is $120. How does Arthur Anderson determine that Sears profit margin is $60. And, how many documents were shredded to achieve this number?
20 point bonus question,
Did anyone see the
name on that truck's license?
Sears Financials in 2013:
El Merchandiso se habla with the y se ponen de
acuerdo con otro de la gringo conpentencia y etc...........
with full apologies to those who can actually read Spanish.