More Retailers including Walmart, Walgreens and others
are marketing the H1N1 vaccine to lure more customers
into their stores. In return, they will play a bigger
role in the Healthcare system with the new Healthcare plan
being passed by Congress. Even tho most retailers don’t
make any profit off these shots, it does let the customers
come into the store and look around on what these retailers
have to offer.CLICK HERE FOR FULL STORY.

Lowe’s will enter the hardware market in australia which has seen
the house market gone up in 4 straight years.CLICK HERE FOR FULL STORY.

Radioshack will be renamed as The Shack, trying to be
pulled away from the radio part that didn’t really
make sense to be anyway. They will focus on
selling tons of mobile devices to boost
their numbers once again in this tough
economic climate. I think its a good idea but
I am thinking that it’s quiet late of some
name changes. The Shack does sound better but
will it pull consumers into their stores,
that’s the real question.

Retailers are getting ready to lower their orders for the upcoming
retail holiday season . So most customers that will
go out and shop will have to fight for the gifts they are looking
for this upcoming holiday season. I thought this was going to
happen regardless, because of a horrid retail sales
for the last couple of months, retailers have to be very careful
of not over ordering this season.

Sony is going to post a record $2.9 billion annual operating loss due to lower demand and a strong yen, and also showed new restructing steps to get its bad electronic operations back on to the top. It will also cut some of the plant operations in japan and plans to cut 30% of the operations related to the tv design worldwide.

Google posted strong fourth quarter earnings this thursday beating wall street, their search web advertising business remained strong despite weak economic conditions.

Apple was supposed to report a decline in the quaterly profit, but surprised wall street with their small profit earnings to beat expectations. Shares of apple was sharply up with this good news. Apple is the maker of ipods, iphone, and mac computers. Apple sales rose rose to $10.17 billion.