RIP Franchises of our youths

[King Bob]

Haven't been to any of their stores in years; the one down here has been a dump for a long time. Big racks of unsorted clothes all over the place because they cut all the early morning recovery jobs. Classic big company move - eliminate the low-end jobs that actually do useful work, but not the redundant managers. (Even 40 years ago when I worked holidays there I could tell that there was too much management.) They will probably follow Emporium into oblivion.

We used to go to Macy's occasionally for housewares, but Target got better at that, although now Target pretty much sucks too. I still like Costco; I'm going to start buying underwear there since Target locks it up now, and you have to wait forever for anything locked up.

I'm starting to think that Wall Street is ruining pretty much everything by making businesses focus on short term stock price goals and completely ignoring customers and what they might actually want - like quality products and no hassles.