Saturday, June 10, 2017

Map of the Sears and Kmart stores closing in 2017

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In this Business Insider article (7/7/2017), there's a map of all 245 Sears and Kmart stores closing this year.  You can zoom in to che...
Wednesday, June 7, 2017

The Retail Apocalypse: Suburbs versus cities

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Just found this great article by Henry Grabar on Slate.  He looks at today's Retail Apocalypse by comparing it to how city downtowns l...
Saturday, June 3, 2017

More news on the Retail Apocalypse

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In this CNBC article (6/2/2017), they give a bunch more facts and stats on the Retail Apocalypse, and a look at the coming Mallpocalypse.  ...
Thursday, June 1, 2017

The Retail Apocalypse is hitting teen job market hard

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"Young jobseekers are facing a perfect storm of employment barriers this summer." -Jordan Bruneau In this East Bay Times articl...

The Retail Apocalypse keeps apocalypting: 4,229+ stores closing

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This Radio Shack Vine pretty much sums it up. Late last year, the mass of retail stores closing got dubbed The Retail Apocalypse.  The nu...
Monday, May 29, 2017

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg wants everyone to get a check

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Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard dropout and tech billionaire creator of Facebook, called for looking at "Universal Basic Income," in h...
Thursday, May 25, 2017

More tech and less human jobs in the future

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I hit working age in the mid 1980's, and I got hired for every single job I applied for until age 27 or 28.  I was completely unquali...