Home Depot: a friend of mine works part-time at Home Depot in Florida. HD has been cutting hours off part-time and full-time staff due to slow activity. Sales are off from last year (at least in his store), employees are idle due to lack of contractors buying construction equipment. He has friends in other HD stores around the city, and they have seen the same trend.
My friend also went to check out some open houses in a new development. The price list has been revised downward for the latest construction phase from the one that came on the market earlier in the year.
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