It’s even tough for the dollar stores, and if people can’t afford dollar store any more - how bad is it?
Not to mention what an Ebola panic would do to the economy. Game, Set, Match.
How bad is it?
Here in northern NJ plenty of people buy groceries at the Meadowlands Flea Market (yuck); we also have a sharp increase in shoplifting (five-finger discounts on everything).
Our local paper reports increasing numbers of people from Newark coming into Wal-Mart, filling a shopping cart, then just walking out (and getting arrested).