I've been buying most of my supplies etc online for a long time now

[old steel]

Went to the mall yesterday to check it out cause i haven't been there in months and most every store had huge discount add posters in their windows with staff out at the open door trying to coax customers inside to do some looking/shopping but most were content to stay outside and window shop.
Didn't look like anyone was buying much of anything even with the huge discounts.

Are things really as bad as they look out there, looks grim.

[Twisted Titan]

Amazon reigns supreme

Even though they are taxing nowadays it is still more conveinent to have it mailed .

[gunDriller]

Went to the mall yesterday to check it out cause i haven't been there in months and most every store had huge discount add posters in their windows with staff out at the open door trying to coax customers inside to do some looking/shopping but most were content to stay outside and window shop.
Didn't look like anyone was buying much of anything even with the huge discounts.

Are things really as bad as they look out there, looks grim.

my brother is one of the execs for a large real estate company that owns & runs ... large shopping centers.

he doesn't talk much about his work.

the subject of economic collapse f r e a k s h i m o u t.


i would say that, overall, the US economy is very grim.

but there are places which have the appearance of hustle & bustle & growth.

[Cebu_4_2]

Malls up in MI are ghost towns, about 1 of 3 are closed. Down here we were just at a mall, half was empty the other half was occupied. We went into Sears and it was a baron deserted warehouse full of brand new stuff. There were employees and 2 other people besides us in there. I don't know how they can keep the doors open. Perhaps internet sales are the only thing keeping them open.

[EE_]

The gardening section of Lowes/Home Depot are busy.

And the Dow is up another 150 points!

[mick silver]

we try to stay out of big malls because going to a big mall would means going to a big city . but the food store in are one horse town is full when we go there .