It's an ambitious piece called And Another Thing..., about a trio of presenters on a television shopping channel looking to beat their all-time sales record.
The number of orders placed yesterday beat the all-time sales record set just four days ago on Black Friday, when more than four million items were ordered.
"We're expecting all-time sales records day after day up until about Dec. 13, when it typically falls off a little," he said.
The Buck Rogers rocket pistol has already set an all-time sales record, and is now being supplemented with the Buck Rogers Disintegrator.
Other companies tied to the PC industry, like Microsoft and Intel, have recently posted record all-time sales figures, and Dell's rival Hewlett-Packard also just reported results well above prerecession levels.
Seventeen of those states set all-time sales records… "We see that lottery sales go up as the economy gets bad — but we don't see people spending more on relatively inexpensive other forms of entertainment," said Garrick Blalock, associate professor of economics at Cornell and a co-author of [an economic study on the subject].
The Petty documentary will probably not have a big theatrical run — Best Buy will sell the DVD exclusively — but the film's backer, Warner Brothers Records, hopes that all sorts of Petty fans will snap up a documentary about a man with 50 million in all-time sales.
Nationally, sales for cars and light trucks have passed 17 million and are expected to finish the year a shade under last year's all-time sales record of 17.4 million, said Paul Taylor, the chief economist at the National Automobile Dealers Association in McLean, Va.
Guero debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, selling 162,000 copies, an all-time sales high.
The film's overseas records were beaten two years later by Dookudu (2011), although disputes have arisen over which film holds the Tollywood all-time sales record.
CUPERTINO, CA (The Borowitz Report) - Apple chief Steve Jobs was crowing today about iPad's first-week sales numbers, telling reporters on a conference call that the mobile device had set an all-time sales record for a totally unnecessary item.
