[–] derram 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
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Retailers are going bankrupt at a staggering rate - Business Insider
"But there aren't many firms willing to rescue dying retailers these days, according to RBC Capital Markets.", "Retailers are filing for bankruptcy at an alarming rate that's quickly approaching recessionary levels.", "But it's getting increasingly more difficult to find replacements for lost tenants, according to RBC Capital Markets."
'"Retailers are running out of cash, and the dominoes are starting to fall."'
' "If store closures continue, we find it harder to imagine there is a solid supply of concepts willing to take over these [locations]."'
[–] senpaithatignoresyou 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Bankruptcy is not death either. Sometimes a guy will come in, kick out the retards in charge, and fix the mess.
Radio shack can be saved. Imagine a store that sells electronic parts, video games, and pc parts, and diy electrical stuff.
give it a condescending motto too :" If you do not know what we sell, then you are too stupid to walk in the store" or something like that.
They would be turning a profit fast and over night.
[–] senpaithatignoresyou 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
Whose fault is this now?
Malls charged too much for rent, and raised the prices, so the average consumer does not want to spend the money there now.
product quality has taken a hit, and no one wants to buy things.
Mom's basement is too small, so the millennials do not have the room for all the crap. They can either have poorly made Chinese consumer goods, or mlp/antifa stuff, and they are choosing the latter.
the married, middle class consumers of the 80s are gone, and is never coming back. As a result you will have to adapt to the more frugal single millennials with student loan debt and no useful skills.
They will buy a handful of things at wallmart and target, bigger things online, and live a lifestyle that does not have that many material possessions. They are people that are not good for retail sales. They are the people that the corporate left made, and they are the people that will destroy the corporate left because they can not afford/ do not want to buy anything.
[–] senpaithatignoresyou 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I refuse to type that out.
when i was a child, they had this trope of the crazy veteran coming home and seeing all the men turned into nancy boys.
I have learned the hard way that this was not a joke, but a warning, and how important it is to pay attention and not be lulled into complacency.
I get out of the navy, go to college, and discover adult men are watching a cartoon about ponies. Not just watching the fucking cartoon, but buying the toys and jerking off to fan made porn.
I fully understand the horror that my grandfather's generation must have felt when they returned home from the first actions in Vietnam to discover hippies.
[–] digix ago
Some stores are fundamentally left, like Target and JCPenney, and people aren't willing to put up with their crap anymore.
[–] Kannibal [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Clinton won 500+ counties, while Trump won 2500+ counties
BUT
The Clinton counties account for something like 2/3s of the American economy.
http://www.attn.com/stories/13222/the-economic-output-of-trump-and-clinton-voters
So if these big box stores write off Trump counties, and only go with Liberal Left Clinton counties, they will likely be writing off their poorest performing stores in the poorest performing sectors of the country. It's not always a bad decision to cut the worse 10 or 20% of your stores. It could even be a good thing.
This will help the financial decline of these areas because there will be less jobs in the area, etc.
This continues the trend of splitting the haves vs the have nots
So in terms of economics, being left leaning might not be a "bad thing". It just might be "good economics" for these companies
They might be willing to concede the conservative areas to Walmart, etc.