a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment
user-inactivated  ·  2277 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "All eyes were on JC Penney"

Man. That article hit a lot of notes. Retail jobs being second jobs for a lot of people with families. People taking temp jobs in hopes of them leading to something more permanent. The closing of anchor stores in malls leading to the closing of smaller, specialized stores. The community effects of dropping property values. Pretty bleak, all around.

    When they talk about the "retail apocalypse" they're not just talking about the death of stores and the jobs that go with them... they're talking about the infrastructure that supports them. I honestly have no idea how a town of 16,000 people rates three anchor department stores in the first place, but if your town could support them once, and now your town can't, y'all are fucked.

Once again, makes me think about this comment I made earlier this morning.

That said, I don't know how much diversity you can really get out of a town with only 16,000 people.