It’s awful, I can hardly find a parking place at the strip mall all those poor people buying stuff and standing in line at the checkout. Just an awful economy.
Strip malls are for dollar stores; they aren’t a good indication of a sound economy. They simply let people buy a bunch of cheap Chinese “stuff” while spending less than $20, but in a few weeks they have to come back and buy replacements for the broken crap.
Some car loans go out 7 years now, our birthrate is still negative, and many young people are avoiding buying homes; from a purely “shopping” standpoint, we’re importing Third Worlders as CONSUMERS instead of WORKERS. Trump has improved it a bit, but the economy is still awful - and I don’t believe any one person can significantly improve that.