Hey, I’m happy to blame Amazon for just about everything, but in this case it’s more likely blue state government run amok.
High prices.........................
Yeah, it’s just a tough situation for brick and mortar retailers. I feel their pain. I guess I’m old fashioned too. I like to see stores, malls, retail centers, full parking lots, people, family shopping, JC Penny’s, Sears, heck....The Broadway, Buffums, FedCo, Gemco, Ohrbachs, Tower Records, I magnin, the 50s, 60s, and 70s....etc. etc. .....in other words...competition and jobs, jobs, and more jobs.
Or just the creative destruction of capitalism.
I ordered a little fry toaster oven from True Value this week for $34. I could have got the same model from BB&B for $89. ($40-something from Walmart and Amazon.)
Except that just as many stores are closing in Texas.