{"id":92033,"date":"2019-10-18T11:30:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T15:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=92033"},"modified":"2019-10-18T09:19:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T13:19:37","slug":"changing-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=92033","title":{"rendered":"Changing Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sears is nearly gone. Walgreens is closing some of its stores. Others are bankrupt and unable to climb their way out, and are going out of business. Some of it is due to online shopping being so popular, but some of it is just the times \u2013 they are a-changin\u2019.<\/p>\n

Business Insider has a list of retailers that are closing stores, including those like Payless which are going out of business.\u00a0 https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/stores-closing-in-2019-list-2019-3<\/a><\/p>\n

You have to read it and go through that list to get the full impact of it.\u00a0What happens when shopping malls become proverbial ghost towns? Turn them into parks? That is happening here and there, even up here in my neck of the woods. Smaller towns are reviving their centers into local shopping, with small stores that may have an online presence, but want the through-the-door customers, too. There’s a K-Mart near me that has been turned into a school.<\/p>\n

This isn’t about nostalgia for some “good old days”. Getting the Sears & Roebuck catalog was not a big event at our house. We knew that you could get literally anything from Sears or Montgomery Wards, including baby chickens if you were going to raise them for eggs and for the freezer.\u00a0 The L.L. Bean catalog was another one: you could get anything for hunting, fishing and other outdoor stuff, including tents and clothing, through their catalog service. Now you go to Tractor Supply to get chickens, and Bean will still send you a catalog, but they don’t print the big one any more. As much as I love to shop in a store, some online stuff is just simpler and easier.<\/p>\n

That was before credit cards became the way to pay for everything, and long, long before online shopping was a bright idea. It was also a time when the local dairy delivered milk and eggs and butter to your door, and the grocery actually had a butcher shop where you could get the beef or pork cut to your specifications. There are still a few grocery stores like that around here, but they never went into the “expand and go broke” mentality that brought shopping malls into existence starting in the 1960s.<\/p>\n

So what do<\/em> you do with a shopping mall that has been abandoned to its fate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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