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More reasons: * To enjoy free AC on hot summer days. In southern European countries were summers are very hot, humid and electricity is expensive it's nice to
by kunagi7 5y ago
More reasons:
* To enjoy free AC on hot summer days.
In southern European countries were summers are very hot, humid and electricity is expensive it's nice to let someone else pay the bill.
Still, most department stores on western countries are being slowly closed since they aren't profitable. There's a mix of reasons like online websites (Amazon, Aliexpress), smaller middle class... They call this the retail apocalypse [0].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retail_apocalypse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retail_apocalypse
- cafard 5y agoHah. A heat-averse relative used to travel several blocks north and east in Washington, DC, going from department store to department store. But the stores she used in the 1950s were already closing before 1980. At this point, Macy's is the last real department store in downtown Washington.