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This sounds phony.
1) People who work in stores, even "mid level store managers", don't get to see people's credit balances and payment history when the customer's credit card is processed. Not only does is it factually not the way the system works, but it'd also likely be illegal because that would constitute an unauthorized access of the customer's credit record information. When a card is processed it gets accepted or declined, that's all the store is told.
2) What part of the US already has such hot weather in 2008 that customers will complain if the air conditioning isn't turned up high enough? C'mon, it's early april! I was just in central Arizona and it was cool and breezy and I was regretting not having my jacket, and I'm from New England!
3) Positions that are eliminated do in fact show in the unemployment statistics and as a reduction of available positions in government statistics, so eliminating a position doesn't hide anything from the public. The tactic of not filling positions once the employee departs is a VERY common corporate tactic that big corporations have been doing almost constantly for decades now, not some weird new invention to mess with the unemployment statistics. Further, this is not really "eliminating positions", this is a "hiring freeze". If the positions were really eliminated, any employees filling them would be terminated, and the poster claims that none were.
I'm not saying that the economy doesn't have problems or that I think we're not necessarily headed for a recession, but this "article" doesn't ring true.
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