The title of this video is “How coronavirus has devastated the retail industry and malls”. But the actual title should be “How the reaction to the coronavirus has devastated the retail industry and malls”.
The title of this video is “How coronavirus has devastated the retail industry and malls”. But the actual title should be “How the reaction to the coronavirus has devastated the retail industry and malls”.
Exactly. I am constantly saying this to people. The government literally decimated the economy and then offered everyone stipends. And imbeciles everywhere are saying, ‘we need government now more than ever.’ OMG
The government literally decimated the economy and then offered everyone stipends.
Remember why AOC and her ilk demand that everybody must never work again and live off government paycheques instead. Think of all that art that’s waiting–begging!–to be created, all that inner creativity that’s about to be unleashed!
As the kids used to say, “Duh.”
Pfft. I stopped going to malls years ago. There’s this thing called online shopping. Cheaper and better service. No one needs malls now.
I like going to shops more now as they are so happy to have customers 🙂
I avoid going to stores now, unless absolutely necessary, because of Dumbass Donnie’s mask debating. (He must worship Prinz Dummkopf. Why else does he try to look like him, beard and all?)
And hilariously, a beard renders a mask completely useless. I seriously cannot fathom anything about Iveson. From his ridiculous “We have to show up Calgary” mask law, to his neverending train (see what I did there?) of excruciatingly expensive vanity projects that do nothing for 99% of the city but screw up traffic and peoples neighbourhoods even more.
Even better, if you go to most chain stores in the Edmonton suburbs, they now have signs demanding mask usage to comply with a bylaw in another city. I just laugh and walk right past them. If a staffer gives me grief I will just say “Then it’s a very good thing we’re not in Edmonton then, isn’t it?”
Yup. The Mill Woods LRT extension is–no pun intended–a train wreck. It always seems to look the same every time I drive past one of the construction sites and they’ve been working on it for–what–5 years now? The extension from the U of A South Campus to Century Park took less time than that. Then again, Donnie the Dimwit wasn’t mayor then.
As for the mask debating in outlying areas, I saw the same thing at the airport a week ago. Never mind that the Edmonton International Airport is located in Nisku…. 20 minutes drive south along Calgary Trail from Whitemud Drive. The only time I wore mine was when I had to run the gauntlet of the Cheka Revival Club going through security. After that, I did the sensible thing.
Sean, I like to examine merchandise before purchase. I ordered a custom barrel. It came with the rear locking lug cut 10 thou too shallow. $45 to ship it, $45 to return it, $45 to get the replacement back to me = $300. for a $150 barrel. Yup, real convenient that on line shopping!
Quite so. The Wuhoo Flu didn’t destroy the economy, the panicked government reactions did; and they are still doing it.
What makes you think it was “panic”?
“In the beginning the organizer’s first job is to create the issues or problems.” ~ Saul Alinsky
Is there anyone, in any town council, or city hall, or mayor’s office, or legislature, or parliament, anywhere in canada, who is not a straight up activist?
I find it amazing that people are actually catching up to what I have been saying.
Women were already finding other ways of wasting their husbands’ money on crap they didn’t need, long before the pandemic. Wuhan flu was a coup-de-grâce for many mall brands.
Even many clothing designers are much happier with the new regime, I hear, having been able to cut out the entire parasite class of the fashion industry.
A far better question one ought to be asking on a Sunday is:
When will pious Christians and Jews gather to worship the God of Israel again without risking arrest? Or will they have to keep worshipping in casinos because temples of Mammon can open and churches can’t?
Prices for just about everything have risen dramatically, I would estimate at least 15 percent since March, and I would bet that by the end of December, the rise will be at 25-30 percent over March. Unfortunately incomes and pensions have not risen, and by next summer, many will be hovering around the poverty line if they don’t reopen the economy real soon. Recovery from this monster will take decades, and our grandchildren will be still paying for it. No wonder Trudeau wants to ban guns, they fear the citizenry will drag them to the guillotine because of this stupidity. This Covid wuflu is no worse than an average flu season, and they shut down the economy and emptied the treasury. They should all be dragged to the guillotine! Let’s make sure it’s a dull blade as well.
In Canada (at least) I would expect prices to rise on everything imported as Glorious Leader is lowering GDP by inequities in the licensing application process and uneven application of the laws of the land (causing a capital flight from what had been an engine of the national economy), all the while using printing presses to create money by fiat. Inflation will be the biggest long-term result of his “handling” of the COVID lockdowns. (In other words, yes, I agree with you, though I phrase it a little differently.)
That’s the whole idea. Pacification through poverty and, possibly, starvation. Comrades Stalin and Mao would be so proud!
C_Minor,
The V8 engine of Canada’s economy was sputtering on 5 1/2 spark plugs even before the shutdown, now we won’t have a useful battery to assist with a restart.
While Trudeau keeps Parliament shut, he can’t get into a no confidence vote, or properly answer for the WE scandal. This Covid wuflu is just perfect from his perspective. He doesn’t have to do much in the way of work, and he’s not get at able, but even if he were, the only politician I see trying to challenge him is Polievre! What a useless bunch of trough feeders. They seem like all they’re out to do is screw the citizens, and that’s the only thing they’ve done well.
I really wish that guy that broke into the Rideau hall grounds had really scared the crap out of him.
While Trudeau keeps Parliament shut, he can’t get into a no confidence vote, or properly answer for the WE scandal.
That’s because he’s a heap of poultry litter. Besides, do you think the Dippers and the Bloc want to give up their cozy arrangement with him?
As for the so-called opposition, most of them are completely useless.
Some groups are using the China virus to fulfill their own agendas. Ontario cases are now below one hundred a day for a few days now, but Blackie’s media and teacher unions are demanding the hiring of thousands more teachers. Its for the kids!
Loads of unemployed teachers already. Fire the ones who don’t want to go to work. See if that focuses any minds.
Ooooh, but don’t forget the second wave, that will be eeeeven worse than the first and think of the children …
I think we will have to wait 10 years before we get the truth about this panicdemic and real, meaningful numbers. It’s going to be a great PhD subject for some young enterprizing epidemology student.
There’s a benefit I hadn’t thought of.
The Education System needs a total RESET….Children are now only Learning how to deal within Institutional Group Think.. Working Parents need school as a childcare system
The use of Class Room Sitters and pre-recorded Lectures, followed by a local work-shop would provide for superior knowledge & a traceable standard….
University: What is necessary for 2020 & beyond? Do we need all those ART Students? Do we need all those advanced (Masters) Mathematicians. ? Do we need all those advanced (Masters) Engineers?….
Maybe we just need Trades people who can use calculators & Computers to build & support the society infrastructure…
Do we need all those advanced (Masters) Mathematicians. ? Do we need all those advanced (Masters) Engineers?….
Most grad students in engineering I encountered were either there because they couldn’t find jobs or thought they were going to get faculty positions. Actually studying for an advanced degree because one might actually learn something beyond what one was taught as an undergrad? Not too many.
One thing I also found was that most profs treat their grad students as cheap, expendable labour.
I attended 3rd year engineering work term project presentations last year at work and all ten of the students performed with the skill, knowledge and insight of a grade 4 graduate.
State run children’s schools were invented in the nineteenth century in Britain. It was an answer to the question “what shall we do with the children?” when the child labour laws were first brought in.
You are so right P. G. Shaw about the education system, except it is much less of a system, rather more of an industry, an unaccountable one at that.
I couldn’t believe it when I heard a relative’s nine year old kid say that he couldn’t read cursive writing! Hand writing, for kris-sakes, What good are the teachers doing other than kid-sitting! One of our friend’s grand kids was found to be totally incompetent in math, and could hardy read, same age different school. Funny what you find out about your kids when you have to spend time ‘schooling’ them yourself! And the teachers continue to demand masks. Those masks should be worn when they cash their cheques, maybe?
A few months after my father died, I hired a kid in junior high school (or is it “middle school” now–educationist just love their labels) to cut my lawn and, later, shovel my sidewalk. He was at an age when one should be thinking past graduation, so I, as a former educator, thought I do him a favour and give him some pointers.
It was a complete waste of time. He had no idea what he wanted to do nor did he have any particular interest in the matter. (His helicopter parents deserved their share of responsibility in that matter. I doubt they ever gave him the swift kick in the backside that he so clearly deserved.) I could have made all sorts of suggestions as to what to do to find out what his future career options would be, whether it was a trade, or tech school, or university. It was in one ear and out the other.
His “education” would come entirely from YouTube videos, or so he tried to tell me.
Unfortunately, I knew his kind too well. Many of my students while I taught at Armpit College were exactly like that. I’m sure their parents told their precious kiddies to either go back to school or go out and get a job.
As for the aforementioned know-it-all genius, he quit on me after a year and I never heard from him again. As far as I know, he’s sitting in his parents’ basement playing computer games or watching dirty Internet videos.
Yes; today the “education” industry has three main roles:
1. Child minding for parents who have to have two incomes to pay the government taxes.
2. A means to distribute money to left wing teachers’ unions.
2a. A mean to distribute money to various government bureaucrats.
3. At a later age, a means to keep the youth unemployment numbers down.
“he couldn’t read cursive writing” That is a problem.. I have terrible cursive writing, but I read just fine.. Fact is that cursive was only used when writing personal letters & block letters are easy….The forming of cursive letters requires pen skill… Mother was teacher and 4 of 5 sisters teachers… they lacked cursive skill although the Stone-Mason who built my House was absolutely unbelievably perfect….
The loss of Mathematic ability has more severe problems.. If you are unable to calculate large numbers in your mind… you can’t recognize the common physics ratios (laws) without a Computer…. NOT GOOD
If you are unable to calculate large numbers in your mind
That’s why we have calculators, right? (Uh-huh…..)
But only as long as the battery lasts. You have to have some concept of the answer otherwise it’s just random figures. I noticed this years ago when cash registers gave the answer to how much change was due the customer. It’s now a no brainer. Credit cards and Debit cards are a God send to the enumerative graduates of our school systems.
Retailers keep trying to force me to use one or the other card. I refuse to do so. Yup, cash is a form of rebellion nowadays.
Cursive writing is required by use of an ink pen (including quill), where the ink flows continuously.
Never mind six months into a pandemic they force the peasants to wear cloth face coverings for political reasons. NS stores and businesses are completely empty, before the forced Taliban mask edict businesses were starting to recover but then the liberals decided to play Sharia Police and Covet Walkers.
It made so much sense to close the small retailers and send everyone to the largest ones. That way no people are gathered and the virus won’t transfer. Really.
I went to the one of the largest malls in SW Calgary today. Thought I was at a morgue.
Noticed a few shops have closed their doors permanently. It was difficult to know what shops they used to be because all signage had been removed.
Most public washrooms have been closed except for those around the Food Court.
There are hand sanitizer stations as one enters any store. Arrows on the floors indicating where on should enter, exit and walk, once in the store.
I went to the Hudson’s Bay where there were fewer check-out centers and all stock was on summer sale. There were markers on the floor indicating where one should stand, respecting the laws of social distancing for the checkout centre. The checkout clerk was safely ensconced behind a plexiglass barrier, hiding from the public’s germs.
Spoke to a sales clerk at another store who didn’t have what I was looking for. He suggested I make Jeff Besos richer by searching online. I told him that he wouldn’t have a job if I did that!
Inside the Mall everyone wore masks. Once outside, people shed them.
Guess I’ll have to look elsewhere for a new thingy. The old one still works but lists like a ship. The plastic doo-hickeys on the bottom flung right off! It doesn’t matter what the thing is, thingies always break. Expensive cheaply made garbage always breaks, forcing one to buy new stuff again and again.
Only dingbats pay full retail prices at malls. I know the brands I like and order everything online including clothes and shoes. Saves money and especially time and I can avoid milling about with the idiot masses.
Who are you calling an idiot?
Haven’t you ever heard about store sales? They knock down prices below or match the trash online.
You must be a perpetually rude guy who knows NOTHING about women. We have to try on clothes, different brands have different sizes. We have no time to be returning stuff when it doesn’t fit nor looks right. Who pays the freight? What a waste of money when one could spend it elsewhere.
If the brick and mortars close down, it’s “dingbats” like you who are to blame.
You Sir, don’t know what you’re talking about.
+++Nancy.
Thanks!!