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On 30 Jun 2018 07:23:38 GMT, ma...@mail.com wrote:

>On 2018-06-30, Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
>>
>> Michael Black <mbl...@pubnix.net> writes:
>>
>>> On Wed, 28 Jun 2018, Mike Spencer wrote:
>>> 
>>> [big snip]
>>>
>>> the property) until he dies and it's a goldmine of old stuff.  So in the 
>>> antique radio hobby, people find places like that and come home loaded 
>>> when the stuff is finally cleared out.  Or someoen finds a stock of old 
>>> toys because they were left in the back of some old store now being 
>>> cleared out.
>>
>> I happened on such a 2- or 3-generations family hardware store of that
>> sort having a close-out sale nearly 50 years ago.  Bought stuff I
>> reckoned I'd never see again, even if I would never need it.  Some
>> things I'm using about now for the first time.  Broom maker's needle.  
>> Or have always been the only person I know that has some. Special
>> files for sharpening brace bits.
>>
>> Sic transit gloria mundi.
>>
>
>What is happening here (.ie) is that a lot of the small stores just closed
>and could nt be viably reopened during the Crash. People are renting them 
>now shortterm, run them for a while, see if it could pay. _There_ is nothing
>as depressing as sitting in a car in a town center, with everything boarded 
>up. All gone to the Malls, which will will decompose as Amazon taakes over. 

Took a walk through the local mall the other night.  Sears gone, Macys
(2 big stores) gone, Hallmark's gone, Hot Topic is gone, American
Eagle's gone, all the restaurants are gone, what's left is local
businesses, cell phone kiosks, one of the jewelers, Target, and the
theater.

It's not all Amazon's doing though.  Fact is that I shopped those
stores while they were there as much as I shopped Amazon, and until
someone comes up with really standardized sizing, buying clothes on
Amazon is a crapshoot.  And now I compare Best Buy and Micro Center
with Amazon before I buy--often Best Buy beats Amazon, and sometimes
Micro Center beats both by enough to pay for gas and Mass Pike tolls
to run up to Boston.

>For myself, I love Amazon, being partly disabled. I can still get all
>sorts of books, wirelessly.