If you were to go into either the Home Depot or Lowes where I regularly shop, you would probably find no more than one cash wrap desk open, and as we say in Texas, you could shoot a cannon in any direction without the worry of injuring a customer.
These are huge stores in affluent neighborhoods where there are almost always the bustle of customers.
So this must be the dreaded evidence that business there is way off...when not even many contractors are there picking up supplies for their jobs...probably because there are no jobs.
Wondering if what I suspected were true, I asked several of the employees in each store. It seems that one of the biggest problems has been unavailability of consumer credit.
Those 6 months without interest credit offers have dried up. Hardly anyone qualifies anymore.
And that's what these merchants endangered themselves with when they farmed out their receivables to banks without taking back recourse, and by depending on factors for replenishing capital.
Lowes and Home Depot and Best Buy and Dillards and on and on can't stay in the black unless consumer credit reappears in a hurry.
So the spicket that was flowing money in gushers is now dispensing a drip every now and then.
before the family bought Commander's Palace in the Garden District. So to be on the safe side, I'll say that was 1954.
Back then it seems that loads of people would order escargot to show off -- snails baked in garlic butter -- but when the dish was served, they wouldn't do much more than dare their dinner guests to try one. Few did. 
So you can only imagine how hard it hit me when I learned that during Hurricane Ike, Bennan's of Houston caught fire from a gas leak, burned to the ground, and seriously injured three of the staff who had stayed behind to look after the place during the storm.
The world is aware that Galveston Island suffered extreme damage when Hurricane Ike came through in early September. This disaster for the Island is only exceeded by the famous 1900 Storm that everyone has heard about, and more recently read about in the book Isaac's Storm. 
Here in Dallas we have the microcosmic example that is also lacking of business ethics and moral character. 
And the lie is directed to them, the customers.
My clients have lived throughout Lakewood, University Park and Highland Park for most of their married life, and that spans just shy of forty-five years. Her dad was the chief financial officer for W.T. Woolworth in New York. His dad was a rancher.
reality.
And let's not forget the bar -- with lots of room for plenty of "stock." Again, it's the stuff that you just have to have in Dallas, Texas to be fully hospitable.
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So I want to share with you some thoughts my daddy taught me. He was a man who came through the Great Depression, worked his way through college, and worked his way up the totem pole in a major company. Although he always worked for someone else, nevertheless, he ended up a wealthy man.