>go to Dillards
>its fucking empty
>manager standing idly in the clothing racks
>go to office depot
>4 employees and 2 customers in the store
>1 employee literally just zigzagging aimlessly in the aisles
>go to best buy
>most of the customers in the store are returning a product
>15 employees standing around doing nothing
>only people looking at products are hispanic/asian families with kids
>see like 3 sales reps looking at me hoping i walk deeper into the store
what happened?
You went during the week.
(((Amazon)))
>what happened?
the internet
Internet sales and the economy never really recovered to pre-2008 levels and people simply don't have as much money to spend.
>why dont people buy anything anymore?
Why should I?
i cant afford a ps4 so until then ill stick to buying 360 games for cheap on amazon
It is all shit that will be broken within a half year at best.
Because Obamas economy is doing great goy.
I go to Office Depot once every week or two for small things we need the day of, rather than waiting on a delivery to the office
People have less and spend more effectively now
What the hell is a Dillards?
Apart from food I can't remember the last time I actually went out to purposely buy something. Internet shopping will eclipse physical sales in no time.
amazon happened. I buy all my shit from there, I hate going to stores. Plus brick and mortar are ridiculously overpriced, and limited in items.
The only thing I go shopping for physically/locally at this point is clothes. Groceries and other necessities are assumed of course.
Obama Great Depression
Most can't afford anything only having part time jobs, thanks Obama. You fucking traitor. Send 221 million to palestine. Send 4 BILLION to african countries EACH YEAR rather than investing in our infrastructure or securing our borders.
(((Amazon))) is just Chinese made garbage
non-food consumer goods are mostly bought online. you also went to three poorly performing store companies. it's also january, immediately after christmas.
Yea the Bush/Obama Depression is still balls deep imo. Besides the internet shopping I think and pushing everything to this debt/market people aren't spending as much unless it can be financed every now and then.
I mean hell man when you can get a car with 0% interest for 4-7 years they're practically giving them away. I see Ford and all the other auto manufacturers doing this too. I could've leased a piece of shit chevy cruze for near 30 bucks a month after discounts just to get me in the door.
I can get anything and everything I could possibly want from the comfort of my own and for a fraction of the price.
Why should I spend my free time surrounded by niggers and screaming brats at stores when I can have all my needs brought to me?
It's like a store for women and faggots.
More like a budget faux wealth store like Ross/Steinmart/Macy's/Von Maur etc.
I had the same question. Apparently it's a department store chain, mainly located in fly-over states?
Most of the population has shitty (((starbucks))) type jobs now so they can't spend like they did back in the 90's and early 2000's.
Everything is Chinese garbage now though.
Dillard's are in Florida and this is the Third largest state in the union so that doesn't compute. It's likely you're in an unimportant area of some sort.
Yeah Boston MA. Fuck Florida.
>Boston
>Important
kek
so's your mom
They usually cook the dogs not fuck them.
Oh I guess all those historical/revolutionary things that happened in the 1700's in Florida eclipse all the haitian niggers and faggots that live there now
All good mane. You'll eventually get out of your shit hole state and city. You could always move up north to Hampshire which is less cucked but still cold af. Anyways while you freeze your ass off up there the bosox are down here in their home climate.
The ECONOMY never recovered. Everything is a lie. 'Merica was on the brink... Then!
Compared the the entirety of Florida... YEP.
These.
lel
>""""((((buying)))"""" things
Florida has multiple Bostons but with a view and beaches FWIW. The topic was Dillard's though mang. Do you guys have a Macy's? Neiman? Saks? Von Maur? I try to steer clear of the northeast since NYC and NJ were dirty AF.
Youre not wrong, but the real reason is Everyone shops online now. Not just Amazon but nobody goes to stores except to return shit like OP said.
I'll just leave this here
>lease
Eww you filth.
You buy it brand new to own it.
people are working and you're unemployed
Wtf are shadowstats?
My income plummeted so I'm pretending to be trying out this new """minimalism""" thing.
I know what you mean.
An economist started a website where he uses the old way of calculating unemployment and inflation to show the actual data vs. the reported numbers used by the current government statisticians. He also provides a lot of cool useful information about the economy that you won't find anywhere else (because markets would freak if this info were officially reported).
Because you can get it mailed to your front door with amazon for the same price. Retail is dying
What's wrong with not buying anything?
I don't own a car, I use public transportation. I've got two computers and a PS4 and some nice clothes. I don't spend money on alcohol, drugs, and coffee. I'm saving up for a down payment to move out and buy a house.
The rent is too damn high
How do people buy shit? Me and my gf both make 20+ an hour and work full time. Our mortgage is only 1250 and our car payment + insurance is low. We have one kid (8months old, fairly cheap) and one dog. We budget fairly well but really don't have much money at the end of the month. I dont even understand how people drive $100,000 cars and shit. I'm an electrician apprentice and she works in a restaurant. I see more 65 inch flatscreens at the houses of poor people than I feel comfortable with. I keep hearing people talk about how they're going to spend their income tax refund. I have to pay and the little bit my gf gets back goes to credit cards. If 2 people with low overhead and a somewhat decent income dont have enough to spend like a nigger, who does?
Sounds pretty cool. I'm going to check it out.
>Credit Cards
There, I found your problem, don't fall for the plastic jew.
Perhaps there are more important things to fix in your life than saving up for a ps4 if that is your problem.
>econemy is shit + Ecomerce
also you are probably in a poor neighborhood, I live in a very wealthy suburb of Phoenix and I was at Nordtrom last weekend, the place was a fucking madhouse.
staples had free next day delivery. if you can't plan at least a day ahead you need a new office manager.
They're not paying off their credit cards, while you are.
We own all be need.
maybe you should get a good fucking job faggot
lol you have a fucking kid too? so sad
how are you going to pay for their education?
let me guess you don't prioritize edumuhhcation because you're a retarded burger
i'm 24 and making $140,000 after tax because i'm not retarded and went to an ivy league school
you are scum, you are nothing. i wipe my ass with dumbass entitled fucks like you who think you're "living within your means"
globalization will cuck you. sorry to shatter your pathetic worldview. continue posting on an anime website and you don't even make six fucking figures. pathetic.
>in b4 MUHH REAL TRADE, REAL JOB
>in b4 butthurt
i don't give a fuck, eat a fucking red pill
muh liberals
lots of people live WAY outside their means, loans, huge car payments/leases, leverage out the ass.
like said, many people live outside their means.
That being said, you have a kid.
As a single guy making well over the national mean and median, I've got plenty of money leftover because I live a fairly modest lifestyle.
I'd imagine having dual income would be amazing, because if I had another me, I could afford a much nicer place at less of a proportional cost.
But again, you've got a babe, so that's a big money sink I'd imagine.
>this cuck
>work 80hrs/week
>be the unemployed 20 something next door who lives in parents basement
>fuck cucks wife while he's at work
>wipe dick on his pillow
>why dont people buy anything anymore?
your cesspit (((nation))) is broke and its people destitute.
the end is nigh...
You're not going to the right places. I work in a gun store and we're always packed. No one wants to mull around in a staples or whatever. They want to buy fun things.
>why do people not buy things a month after Christmas
>why do people not buy things at a store which will screw you instead of online at 30% off with free delivery
>why won't people get things that these stores refuse to Amazon price match
Ask yourself the real questions dummy
Sure. Consumerism is not the faucet of society. We will survive while the mongrels overbreed as their implode.
Because the economy is fucked up.
Why the fuck do you think Trump and Sanders got so much traction?
People put in a kenyan communist in the white house and the rich just got richer.
nice try shill
no one wants sony shit
ctr is fucking desperate.
I like shopping and browsing, I like being able to buy something and have it now, I like being able to talk to knowledgeable clerks.
I don't like getting mugged or having to run away from fights.
Internet my ass, this is a type of white flight.
More and more people are becoming red pilled. They realize that material products can never provide any substantial happiness.
Amazon is coming here I look forward to it. I don't care what damage it does to shopping malls I will kek.
Some are good but there's too many little shit heads serving in clothing stores and why the fuck am I being asked to pay so much for nikes when they are made in gook land oh that's right because I am paying for mall owners to charge big rents and then they go and lobby the government for mass immigration for more customers and chain store retailers who do the same who demand that everything revolves around them so fuck everyone it's every man for himself if wasn't my fucking decision we got on just fine for decades before everything became faggoty.
We only used them when she was on maternity leave. Only 3,000$
I can find better prices online and have it delivered to my door.
Why would anyone go to a store?
I dont think its a money sink until they are a bit older. Its mainly diapers and clothes. He beastfeeds and babyfood is super cheap. We dont pay childcare because i work mornings and she works evenings. We arent living in poverty by any means I just don't see how people have the money to blow. Like people who wear pajamas in public.
Electrician isn't a decent trade? I get 2$ raises every 2000 hours.
O WOW BUDDY YOU'RE ALMOST KEEPING UP WITH INFLATION
lol