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Amazon raises Super Saver shipping!
"l not -l" > wrote in message
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> On 23-Oct-2013, Susan > wrote:
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>> On 10/23/2013 1:26 PM, wrote:
>> > Yeah and no wonder local businesses are closing up and unemployment
>> > is on the rise.
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>> Not in my town. The commercial/shopping area of small stores and
>> restaurants, specialty shops and clothing boutiques, galleries are
>> thriving. Booming in fact, lately.
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>> It's a real Main St. USA kind of town.
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>> Susan
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> Not the case in mine (suburb of STL); retail dried up long before
> Amazon. The former retail space is now restaurants, smoothie and
> chocolate shops. Though the city administration still has the stop
> lights set to stop me every two or three blocks, I no longer get to see
> the books, clothing, furniture or whatever in the big store-front
> windows. Now, I all there is to see is big-asses overflowing the
> chairs, while folks cram burgers, pizza, wings, etc. in their mouths. I
> miss, and would shop, local retail establishment; but, seems most folks
> prefer Kohls, Target, Wal-mart or other big stores.
Same here. The Everett Mall is pathetic. Hardly anything there and now
they are putting in a big Burlington Coat Factory which I guess is better
than the nothingness that was there.
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