“Not this year (its been really light for several years now). The mall is a freaking ghost town.”
My wife decided to swing into a shopping outlet in PA on her way back from her company’s North Jersey home office to do a little last-minute Christmas shopping. All but three of the stores were closed — as in “Out of Business”. This is in an affluent area of Bucks County, PA that is a fairly popular shopping destination.
Things are very bad out there.
We’ve been having chain restaurants closing...at least three of them. Last one was a Boston Market, a few weeks ago. I thought to myself, why close right before the Christmas rush...oh wait.