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Article #624279Re: Computers, anyone?
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 16:42
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 16:42
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On 2018-06-30, ma...@mail.com <ma...@mail.com> wrote:
> 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.
Around here, even the smaller malls have increasing numbers of boarded-up
shops. With the exception of Sears, it's mostly the small independent
businesses. Travel is becoming quite boring - no matter where you go,
it's the same set of big-box stores. No variety.
Now Main Street's whitewashed buildings and vacant stores.
Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more.
They're closing down the textile mill 'cross the railroad track.
Foreman says these jobs are going, boys, and they ain't coming back
To your home town.
-- Bruce Springsteen
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