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global1

(26,507 posts) Sun Aug 10, 2025, 04:34 PM Aug 2025

Why All The Bankruptcies & Store & Restaurant Closures?.... [View all]

Every morning when I start my phone up - I'm reading about all these closures to stores, restaurants and businesses.

There seems to be an unusual amount of this going on.

Is this Tr**p's fault?

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Why All The Bankruptcies & Store & Restaurant Closures?.... [View all] global1 Aug 2025 OP

With chains, it's usually because they got gutted by private equity, which has been going on for decades. WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2025 #1

Fake News yankee87 Aug 2025 #2

On-line shopping, changing demand, fear of tariffs, consumers more cautious, overbuilding, and more. Silent Type Aug 2025 #3

LOL -- Better question: What isn't Trump's fault? ananda Aug 2025 #4

Exactly! Rebl2 Aug 2025 #7

A lot of stores have been going downhill for years Ritabert Aug 2025 #5

But hey republican morons on mass media say it's good for America! Initech Aug 2025 #6

golden age or golden showers? RainCaster Aug 2025 #9

Mom and pop stores and restaurants that barely survived covid are being finished off by the withering aftereffects' of ImNotGod Aug 2025 #8