Since it's founding in 1958, Publishers Clearing House (PCH) has doled out in excess of an unbelievable $ 680,000,000.00 in prize money. You read that right - six hundred eighty million smackers. With the decline of readership for all but a very few magazines, PCH is going bust - chapter nine style. As the magazine industry tanked, so did the sweepstakes companies. Magazine publishers loved PCH because the company helped them get massive numbers of subscribers. The more subscribers a magazine had, the more the publisher could charge for ads. The magazine world is not what it used to be. Hundreds of magazines have stopped publishing print editions or gone out of business altogether over the last dozen years. Advertising revenue for print publications dropped from a peak of around $20 billion in 2007 to just $2.3 billion in 2023, according to Bloomberg. That's a decline of more than 70%.
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Canadians have long been the top international travelers to the US, driving $20.5 billion in spending last year. Canadian air travel to the US dropped by 13.5 percent in March compared to a year earlier, and those crossing the border by car fell by more than 30 percent.
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'Add in the high pizza enthusiasm of 22,512 pizza-related searches per 100,000 residents and a wallet-friendly average pizza price of $15.74, and you've got a state that ensures pizza enthusiasts have ample options at relatively affordable prices.' By contrast, a pizza in New York City is likely to set you back $19.73 on average.
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Just looking at that massive floating hotel gives me the Willies. I have zero friggin' interest in anything something like that has to offer. I've been on one cruise - to Glacier Bay, Alaska out of British Columbia on a ship probably one-tenth the size of that beast. Once was enough for me...
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Without looking, I'm willing to bet Americans were the top travellers to Canada. Canada started the trade war with tariffs against American products. Just like WWII, the US was just really late to the war. If Canada really wants to insist on continuing their trade war, the US needs Canada far less than Canada needs the US. And, no. I don't want you far left-wing nut jobs as the 51st state. You were being trolled.
ReplyDeleteOr - Until you work as in retail or food service or as a contractor - You have no idea the level of stupidity that exists in the world.
ReplyDeleteI have done all 3 - Actually owned businesses in all 3 areas - Still being amazed!
Pizza fritta, I know. My blessed Italian mother would fry up a big bag full of them for me to take for my friends to eat as we drove around drinking and smoking weed around 1970. It was a different time back then.
ReplyDeletework in any ER and you find just how many stupid people there are ! I used to think it was something in the water?
ReplyDeletethat is when you find out there is no such thing as common sense !
We went on two cruises; one Alaska cruise and one Hawaii island hopping cruise. Had a blast on both. The excursions made each cruise better.
ReplyDeleteBamboo and Hemp, but the plant pictured is not bamboo. It is Dracaena. Looks like bamboo kind of, but it is not even related.
ReplyDeleteZeppoles. I can still smell them
ReplyDeleteI'm with you Joe. I can think of few things less appealing than spending a week locked in a floating restaurant scheduled like a prison with 5000 of my closest strangers.
ReplyDeleteMark in PA
Make a visit to a local hvac distributor. A case (12) of 20x20x1 (polyflo, do NOT use pleated they work the blower motor too hard) cost me $42.00. (central NC location)
ReplyDeleteI was first a buyer for a large department store in Philadelphia and then a VP of merchandising for a chain of retail stores. I then switched over to wholesale sales to retailers. That was for 40 years. Yes, people (in general) are really - really stupid but today, limp wrist libtards are absolute morons.
ReplyDeleteSophia was was and is one hot mom-ma.
ReplyDeleteA 20x20x1 Hepa filter at the local hardware store is $4.99. Sure it is a 2 mile drive there but I pass the store 8 or 9 times a week.
ReplyDeleteMy idea of HELL ON EARTH - being cooped up at sea on a hideous, bloated cruise ship with 5 to 10 thousand drunken strangers, having no control over my own life and no way to get off the ship. And worse - having to pay for it!!!
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