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
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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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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