Why Retailers Are Loving Workers Returning to the Office

Episode 496: Neal and Toby chat about LA wildfire evacuees and authorities battling against price gouging that are looking to take advantage of desperate victims. Then, the shift towards strict Return-to-Office policies by companies have led to workers shopping for a new office wardrobe. Also, China announces a trade surplus that has reached nearly $1 trillion. Meanwhile, Toby dives into the trend of ghost jobs that are plaguing job sites and job seekers. Lastly, a roundup of the biggest headlines for the day. #businessnews #retail #housing #trade

00:00 - Eagles AJ Brown’s Inner Excellence
2:30 - Wildfire victims fight price gouging
7:30 - Workers refresh their wardrobe
11:30 - China’s massive trade surplus
15:30 - Toby’s Trends: Ghost jobs
18:30 - Sprint Finish!

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[midge]

neal taking any opportunity to talk about the eagles, respect

[danhaddad]

Although I'm not an Eagles fan, I appreciate all the love they are getting - and other sport references. Go Lions!

[nycsarthak]

Man, I think I've actually seen every single episode! How many are there again?

[andresalvarez]

Hello again...first comment? Glad to have Toby back 🎉

[CuriousDuckk]

The exact numbers are disputed but I was at the 2016 Chicago Cubs parade and its listed as one of the largest gatherings of humans ever. That was insane, I can only imagine these tens of millions of human pilgrimages.

[vinsanity]

You guys just made the book of Inner Excellence more popular. One more sale here

[loladiaz]

Hair and make up is shopping at Abercrombie and Fitch. …. Which I didn’t know that was still a thing

[unCoopervised]

Seriously? The l example of price gouging you chose to use was about someone who can afford $13, 000/mo in rent? With that much money, they’ll have no problem soon enough. It’s the people who can barely afford $2000/mo that are hurting.

[MikeAngel]

Price gouging? What's up with this fake term. It's just usual supply and demand; if there is way more demand than supply then prices go up (and vice versa), simple as. If politicians want to control the market for whatever reason (noble or not) that's fine with me I wish they used the correct therms instead of sugar coating them.

[lbierman]

No! I will not go to your, or anybody else's, "X" page. It is against my moral principles. I keep waiting for Musk to buy Xerox just for the name.