Physical Evidence of America's Start to Decline and Fall

Nothing stays the same. You either transition with the change or become extinct. Its called adaptability. You personally may not like the changes but you will either die out or get with the program. You may call it decline but smart business people are figuring out how to profit.
 
massive malls started to decline with the advent of strip malls....

Actually, the Mall of America is expanding and the other leading major malls in Minneapolis- St Paul have either expanded or are expanding. Of course that could be due to the fact that the economy is real good here. The state lowered taxes this year too.
Here's a little known fact, the first ever enclosed mall in the world was in Minneapolis, people just love shopping in malls here. Probably due to the weather. :D
 
Asceplias said: Nothing stays the same. You either transition with the change or become extinct. Its called adaptability. You personally may not like the changes but you will either die out or get with the program. You may call it decline but smart business people are figuring out how to profit.




Yes, Asceplias. They are called farmers. It started with us and it is going to end with us. God made the farmer. Ask Mr. H.
 
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Yep, similar to another recent "OMG end of days" thread that pointed to statistics from mall foot traffic. Looking at consumer spending clearly shows the retail spending didn't go away, just a larger and larger portion of it is online and this is even more amplified in foot traffic since even people who buy in brick and mortar often do most research online first.

Just look at socio-demographic projections. The U.S. is a dead man walking.

As are all the European ethnicities.

White people have decided they would rather have a third car and an ATV than have kids.

And that has an impact.


Why the focus on 'race'?
 
Asceplias said: Nothing stays the same. You either transition with the change or become extinct. Its called adaptability. You personally may not like the changes but you will either die out or get with the program. You may call it decline but smart business people are figuring out how to profit.




Yes, Asceplias. They are called farmers. It started with us and it is going to end with us. God made the farmer. Ask Mr. H.

If you mimic the farmer philosophy you cannot go wrong.
 
the effects of this are even more far reaching. people don't go to malls they do even less ancillary spending. eating out, spur buys. they use less gas which means states collect less taxes, less tolls. so more tax dollars have ot be allocated to maintenance to make up for the shortfall. now there are also less jobs so people will be spending less.

Where I live, the rest. are loaded as are the shopping centers....the roads are congested with autos and new highways are being built, old ones expanding...

so you live in an are that represents about 20% of the real estate. the fact is, most are in delcline. most retailers are closing doors. many retailers are even decreasing their footprint in malls they are in.
 
It's Obama-ville all over the US. He's driving the US straight off a cliff and nothing will stop him. In fact, he's got the full support of his progressive lapdogs.
 

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