❝ Protestors have been given permission to fly a giant balloon portraying Donald Trump as an angry, orange baby over the U.K. parliament during the president’s first official visit to Britain.
❝ Named “Trump Baby,” the 20-foot-tall blimp will be airborne when Trump is in London next week.
Nice to know that longtime PINK FLOYD fans are alive and well in London.
Visits to malls declined by 50% from 2010 to 2013 — Click to enlarge
❝ More than 3,800 store s are expected to close across the country this year. Department stores like Macy’s, Sears, and JCPenney, and retailers including Toys R Us, BCBG, Abercrombie & Fitch, and Bebe have decided to close dozens of stores.
A new survey by commercial real estate company Reis found that malls are emptier than they have been since 2012…The vacancy rate in regional and super-regional malls hit 8.6% in the second quarter, up from 8.4% in the prior quarter.
❝ With vacancy rates continuing to rise, walking through a mall in 2018 is like walking through a graveyard.
Not a big fan of Business Insider. They’re often guilty of letting demented editors title articles as if they were written by click-bait pimps. I’m likely to skip a noteworthy article because of obvious overblown presentation. This piece is an exception.
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