l not -l wrote:
> On 23-Oct-2013, Susan > wrote:
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> > On 10/23/2013 1:26 PM, wrote:
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> > > Yeah and no wonder local businesses are closing up and unemployment
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> > > is on the rise.
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> > Not in my town. The commercial/shopping area of small stores and
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> > restaurants, specialty shops and clothing boutiques, galleries are
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> > 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
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> Amazon. The former retail space is now restaurants, smoothie and
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> chocolate shops. Though the city administration still has the stop
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> lights set to stop me every two or three blocks, I no longer get to see
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> the books, clothing, furniture or whatever in the big store-front
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> windows. Now, I all there is to see is big-asses overflowing the
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> chairs, while folks cram burgers, pizza, wings, etc. in their mouths. I
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> miss, and would shop, local retail establishment; but, seems most folks
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> prefer Kohls, Target, Wal-mart or other big stores.
If peeps preferred smaller stores over the big boxex, then the smaller stores would survive...
I remember when everyone was moaning that Borders "put smaller bookstores out of business". *Consumers*, with their preferences, put the kibbosh on the smaller stores...and anyways where now is the once-mighty Borders...???
People forget that one of the hallmarks of a consumer-driven market economy is *failure*...it is a brutal truth.
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Best
Greg