March Madness is here…..but so still is winter madness.  23degrees at 9am this morning. OUCH! We really need to move out of winter which has become as dreary as the daily bad US economic news. My theory is that once you eliminate one of these two issues you have moved to only a 50% problem. Perhaps too the warm weather will set the American mindset to shift to spending and unlocking pent up monies…….thus minimizing the negativity around the other 50%. Hence the 50% solution.

Americans really want to ‘BREAK OUT’ and feel good again. We at Murphy’s are doing our part for the break out by being sensitive to the wallets. We’ve noticed that even in this fairly insulated valley that people are really watching what they spend…..as they should. We have kept pricing so that the value you receive is aligned to the reality of this recession.

When one of the two pillars of our economy – Dartmouth- starts cutting back…..the reality that we are connected to the National downturn hits home. But we are Americans…We are optimistic and we believe that better times are just around the corner………after we have made the necessary adjustments as we always seem to do approximately every 8 years…….then we will all simultaneously hit the GO SPEND button!! So…..warm weather and spending……now there is a beautiful cocktail!!!  Go go go Mother Nature!! Cheers. Nigel