Shopping is about more than ‘the economy.’ If fewer people are leaving the house to shop, it’s more likely something to do with their environment. Who’s going to shopping malls now anyway when the internet is full of live video showing mobs of ‘teens’ (MSM obfuscation) trashing and looting them all over the country? Public order has taken a worse dive in the last decade than has the value of our dollars.
Seniors, for example, embraced internet shopping with alacrity not only because it’s often cheaper but because they were tired of getting panhandled and mugged in parking lots and malls. I’ll wager that online shopping is showing gains instead of losses: that’s why disgruntled brick-and-mortars lobbied their state governments relentlessly to punish those shoppers by taxing those sales. Tough. Businesses that can’t, or won’t, protect their customers deserve to fail.
By the way, what lady in her right mind would ever darken the door of a Target?! Definitely not a respectable one, or any responsible parent either. That was the first major chain that allowed male pervs into the ladies’ toilets and dressing rooms, offering neither employees nor customers any safe place to escape voyeurs snapping pics of them on their phones or child molestors attacking their children. Long before Americans get to the polls, they should already be voting with their wallets. What kind of country do we really want?