Our Radio Shack closed a few years ago. Staples closed this January. All of the shopping centers around here have empty stores that aren’t getting filled by new businesses.
Even our Taco Bell just boarded up a few weeks ago.
Not that I shopped or ate there, but there are a lot of jobs being lost and not being replaced.
How long’s Walmart been there?
I wonder... is Walmart now Too Big To Fail?
“Even our Taco Bell just boarded up a few weeks ago”
Damn a place were you can gas up for only $4 goes under, that is bad news. Where you from?
Book stores as well. And I don’t buy the crap that everyone buys on-line now. People will always love perusing books and magazines.
Two giant Barnes & Noble stores just shut down in my area. Borders went under several years ago.
But there are plenty Dollar General, Dollar Tree, and Family Dollar stores taking their place.
Sign of the times, I reckon...
I’ve noticed that there are lots and lots of empty storefronts in strip malls that were full of small businesses just a few short years ago. Our mall just lost its Belks store and others have moved out to other locations. The country is going down the tubes, ala Cuba, Zimbabwe and Venezuela and nobody seems to notice or care.......................
I remember the same thing happening under Reagan, but the economy picked back up after a couple years. This obama economy stinks.