Wife and I are planning a trip soon so that means we need to freshen up the very well worn wardrobes ….. that also means a trip to the mall .
On the way to the mall we stopped at one of the two very new car washes . We not only have two new car washes in town , we have four others presently under construction. I’m certain the three other car washes in town about to go chapter 11 find this of interest, and so do I.
That trip from the car wash brought us past two very evident observations. One was the amount of empty retail space available for lease. The other was the endless newly constructed, as well as presently being constructed ….. retail space.
Arrival at the mall found us entering large swaths of empty parking lot . Sears and Macy’s have gone and their multi acre parking lots now sit completely empty. Probably a good opportunity for someone to use this space to build a new strip mall while the present mall holds endless vacant stores.
I perused the aisles of every store available before being forced to travel 30 miles south to malls that offered the same thing …. Shirts, your choice , small or XX extra large unless of course I was willing to go with long sleeves . Problem being is … I’m neither small nor double extra large. Nor do I feel comfortable in the tropics wearing long sleeves . And nor do I feel comfortable with all this economic growth that isn’t doing a single thing for me …
I’m just not so sure how all this retail space contributes to the “growth” of the United States if they can’t actually sell me anything. Money has no value if there is nothing to buy
