> and I'm talking a nice Southern California mall, not one somewhere in the middle of the country This isn't the bound you seem to think it is. SoCal is quite

> and I'm talking a nice Southern California mall, not one somewhere in the middle of the country This isn't the bound you seem to think it is. SoCal is quite wealthy, but the workers aren't exactly motivated or caring. I remember going keyboard shopping at Fry's well before any talk of bankruptcy and the whole aisle was basically a pile of scattered keycaps and nearly-empty keyboards. And I was just in a Macy's the other day (not in SoCal), and actually remarked how nice the store was set up compared to the overall trend of everywhere else going down hill. So as usual, YMMV.