#retail

"when the slowing economy is led by pooped-out consumers, it's usually disastrous for the tenants of malls and strip malls"

"The dynamics were there. Angry miserable sales guy, a meltdown waiting to happen."

This store kinda squicks me out - there's one at the Valley Fair mall in San Jose, unironically near Hot Topic and Torrid. "C28 is a Christian store chain, offering an alternative to the mainstream mall stores."

"‘The Customer is Always Right’ ... until we banish that phrase from American culture forever, I suggest we quit looking the other way when people behave like scumbags."