The America Dream is dead. Killed by the Open Borders, NWO folks. All the stories people like to tell from 30 years ago no longer matter. I’ve been through all that too. The old stuff and old normal no longer apply. Might as well tell stories of the Roaring 20’s.
As one FReeper’s tagline said, most Americans don’t realize it yet. It’s called the “normalcy bias”. Oh, they have watched gas go up and down and food prices go up, but this ain’t 1985. Ask 94+ million Americans.
I’ve been hitting going out of business sales once in a while for great deals - but 2016 is the first time I’ve hit 2 closing grocery stores in the same year, and it is May, and I didn’t get to a recent chain’s closing due to traffic.
For GROCERY STORES, albeit at the higher end, to be closing is a problem.