I think as many have said here that they don't shop at those stores. Most of those stores are stores that sell 'luxury items' or expensive things and people just can not afford to shop at these stores.

You look at the bargain and discount stores who are booming like Dollar General, Goodwill, Salvation Army and Oh Wal Mart is taking over, with profits raising as the stores like Wal Mart are running all or lot of stores out of business.

Yet, what can one do when there is just no money to spend, no savings, and living paycheck to paycheck, I fear it will only get worse.

People are not able to spend extra dollars for a special label sewn into a article of clothing double in price at these high end luxury stores. grocery's alone eat away at the paycheck, let alone to buy a leather jacket or a table setting for 12 and hundreds of dollars.

Looks like sadly we are being forced to go back to the 'basic necessities'

My heart go out to those minimum wage workers trying to support themselves let alone their families.