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From: JimP
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 19:06

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On 30 Jun 2018 16:42:22 GMT, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
wrote:

>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

Sears nearest me looks like a ghost town... and that is with the
employees in there.

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From: JimP <solo...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Computers, anyone?
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