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Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher

Jeffy's Corner: Retail Apocalypse is Real

Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher

Blaze Podcast Network

News, News Commentary, Daily News, Society & Culture

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2015

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Jeff Fisher is live from 6am to 8am ET, Saturday. Listen for free on The Blaze Radio Network: www.theblaze.com/radio & www.iheart.comFollow Jeff at twitter.com/JeffyMRA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You're listening to the Jeff Fisher Show.

0:03.0

So anyway, the US economy, they keep telling us it's improving, improving, improving,

0:08.0

improving, yes, it's wonderful.

0:10.0

And actually, where I live here in Texas, it sure seems that way.

0:14.0

This is one of the fastest growing areas in the country.

0:17.2

This particular area, Dallas and Tarrant and I think there's another county in there too Denton maybe I'm not

0:25.7

sure which one are some of the fastest growing counties in America and then Dallas

0:31.4

and then Texas alone you know been on fire for a number of years.

0:35.8

And so it's hard to see.

0:38.9

You can get a glimpse of how things are struggling with some of the businesses but things are really

0:44.9

still booming here in Texas but when you go outside of Texas and you realize

0:51.4

wow you know it's not really that good and if you look

0:54.9

closely it isn't and when you think about all the US retailers and you hear the

1:00.8

news a little at a time it leaks out you know this place is

1:04.4

closing you know 30 stores and we hear that some of the else is closing you know

1:10.7

maybe 20 stories it's 20 stories or they're looking at restructuring

1:14.4

and they're going to be closing you know 150 stores well well that stuff adds up

1:19.8

and you're looking at I think now we're looking at over 6,000 retail locations are closing.

1:30.0

I mean that's amazing.

1:33.0

Amazing.

1:34.0

Amazing. Now a list compiled by about.com,

1:40.0

they have a list here of businesses, brick and mortar businesses that are closing at least 10 stores and I'll give you the time with it in the next two years and it

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