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The Clark Howard Podcast

8.29.18 Amazon selling tires; Paying someone to do your dirty work; 401k and your student loan debt

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Entrepreneurship, Business, Investing

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Amazon is using Sears to do installation of tires that they sell. This could be good for both companies; Paying someone to quit your job for you? It's a thing. And Clark tells you why it's ridiculous; Having trouble saving for retirement? Well, now employers can contribute to your 401k even if you can't because of student loan debt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.1

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1:19.6

Coming up a little later, this is just it's almost like a spoof today's Clark rage about

1:28.9

hiring somebody to tell somebody something you don't have the guts to tell them.

1:34.5

Seriously. And yet later there's a new rule involving 401Ks. I'm going to tell you how it works,

1:43.5

when it makes sense and when it doesn't. So there was an announcement that

1:50.4

Amazon, the fast growing online behemoth, is entering into a joint venture with Sears

2:01.2

that is having the slowest going out of business sale ever. Sears is toast. It's only a matter of

2:08.4

when, not if Sears ceases to exist, which is crazy because for I think a 60 year period,

2:16.3

Sears was the world's largest retailer and now it's a tiny shadow of itself. And so Amazon

2:27.1

has discovered a new area they think they can really take market share and it's tires.

2:35.4

But the problem is your computer isn't going to install tires. So Amazon has taken a page from

2:42.8

the ultra successful tire rack and is entering this joint venture with Sears where you can go on

2:51.4

Amazon.com, order tires and then have those tires delivered to a Sears automotive center near you,

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