[Leaning Right]

I wonder what’s going on here. PNC has plenty of money to buy the naming rights for Pittsburgh’s baseball stadium. But they don’t seem to have the money to help the little guy, and keep neighborhood branches open.

[Alberta's Child]

Bank branches have become little more than expensive street-front billboards these days. I only go to my local branch 1-2 times per month to deposit checks, and in the last six months I have seen another customer in the branch only twice.

Interestingly, bank executives have told me that they keep many of these branches open only because local customers are reluctant to do business with a bank that has no local presence -- even if they do 100% of their banking online.