by Keilani
Just went to my local mall, usually quite busy on Saturdays, usually can’t hardly find a spot. It was almost desolate, entire rows with only one and two cars, even by the restaurants like Red Lobster, so weird.
Called in an order at the pizza place, you usually have to call multiple times on a weekend as so busy and it’s a mom and pop place. They answered immediately, did NOT put me on hold like usual, order was done in 15 minutes, usually I’d have to wait about 45 on a Fri/Sat night.
I remember reading how a lot of the stores cancelled their Christmas stock, no wonder, they see the writing on the walls.
OH, and I live in a very popular tourist area near beach, so this is not normal on a Fri/Sat around supper time.
My pizza place is by the movie theater, and so the parking there is usually non-existent, there were multiple places to park, so I’m sure those sales are down also.
I wouldn’t want to be invested in any retail, restaurant or movie stocks right now, anything to do with consumers, who are apparently broke.
Some other stocking issues I’ve noticed.
Places like Walmart seem to have way more stocking issues when it comes to meat and other food items, maybe because all the food stamp people shop there, IDK.
Places like Sam’s Club seem to wait for the weekend to put out certain meat and other items, for example, I’m noticing their Prime Hamburger seems to run out a lot during week, but they manage to stock for weekend.