The Death Of Retail Shopping In Prescott, AZ??

[USZombeeKing]

Believe me...you are better than those skanks on cable TV.  DO NOT BELITTLE YOURSELF LIKE THAT AGAIN!

[FilteredInc]

Was that the mayor getting in the Mercedes AMG SL500 at Target lol?

[FilteredInc]

No way, There is a 2-screen movie theater in my home town of Wisconsin with a town population of around 3,000 that has been around since I was young like 20+ years ago. It is very run down and has replaced rows of seating with tables so that they can offer more "kitchen foods" like Pizza and breadsticks. That is, i'm sure the only thing keeping them going.

[MrArizonaGuy]

That was a Basha's grocery store that closed due to bankruptcy , Not a Fry's .

The indian cigarette store is still very busy as well as the Golden Corral & Home Depot

[dauerhaft1]

Don't stop making videos!

[Mr1openmind]

My view is changing toward everything being "bad" to this being GOOD. Consumerism is a sickness or plague on society. People buying tons of crap and being constantly entertained while the World is in wars and starving. Many people I know have multiple homes and do not see anything wrong with it. So be it. Me me me It must all be about ME!. No need to care about others. Let the chips fall where they will. The forest will be burned to the ground.

[elucidative]

Thank you globalists for ruining the country. You all should be swinging for attempted murder. 100 years ago they hung someone for stealing a man's horse because a horse was his livelihood. The globalists have stolen all of our horses.

[elucidative]

Is that on sunday?

[elpilotoazul]

In my town we had a 4 theater movie complex built in 1972. It kept expanding and growing, and eventually became a 14 theater complex. It is massive. It closed in 2006, and sits there, an empty hulk. The mini mall next to it is almost totally vacant. What you have shown here is carbon copied many times over.

[alexjonesviewer]

What ever you do please keep these kind of videos coming...thanks

[PrimeConsciousness]

The demise of Hollywood propaganda hubs is an aspect of our economic climate that I can really get behind. 

[MaxAir365]

You should do a video on the one thing that isnt dead in prescott, or preskit as local say....( I used to lived on off of montezuma on the top of the hill over the bridge when u pass albert johnsons) and that all the rehabs/halfway houses, prescott has the most rehabs and halfway per capita in America!

[dowhatuwill]

Thanks or the great vid.

[chocoboasylum]

You should watch a movie called Thrive. Do a search on here for 'Thrive movie 11 11 11'. It's about 2hrs long so make sure you've got the time.

[jimbobubbadj]

"The following program is brought to you in living color on NBC." watch?v=WHeFv-g9kCE

[jimbobubbadj]

Dittos that the 60's, 70's and 80's were the peak of USA standard of living. I had a great time in the 70's and 80's. I remember only a few things from the late 60's, no its not due to drugs lol if anyone is wondering. I was too young.

[dunn98632]

I work in retail as a upper managment of a unnamed retailer OK period. Last year black friday was $68,500 in one day this year $31,800 in the same store that does very good typically.

After this day we have been close to numbers but not close enough for the last few weeks.

We have a lot less ours on our schedule for our employess. Plus we are not allowed to spend anything on a Christmas party for our employees. So we are spending our own money to make it happen.

[Seattle206723]

@dunn98632 may god bless you...

[PolakFury]

Keep doing these vids we need a time capsule of sorts of the now times

[goldcurrent1]

Looks as bad as California. Hope and change we can believe in.

[MorpheusWasRight]

all the wealth left and went to china, china will boom and US will work for a slave wage

[ladylordess]

I stayed in Prescott on a road trip in the 1998. The downtown area was nice. Are there businesses there, or have they closed as well?

[jimbobubbadj]

@ladylordess I drove through going North coming from Jerome and heading towards Flagstaff. There was a nice campground next to a river when I was there in 1996.

[emmanuel43]

The world has changed. 20 years ago,more people were happier, they had something to do. Can the world go back to the way it was before? where is all this economic downturn going to lead to in the united states if it does not stop.

[goldcurrent1]

@emmanuel43 Population reduction.

[chingon711]

this is just more evidence Americans are running out of money....big retail stores will continue to have to cut prices even more and pay their workers a slave's wage to turn a profit.

[whittle4u]

Well, you do live in the desert. Its been like that for decades where we live in NC.

[poxbox]

Reminds me of those gold rush towns in the old west.

[stuzapusa]

Malls suck anyways. Why did they destroy everything just to have this. They'll make them into jails next! Hope everyone had a good time.

[2011rcm]

The video stores in my town...the corporate ones all closed down this year, all that is left are the owner orperated ones. This really gives me some hope for the little guys as I see this as a new trend with corporate shopping. The owner operated businesses will finally have the space to make some money.

[TheSilverguy79]

Welcome to the new world order give it 10 more years and it might be booming all over again except the sign for the mall might be written in Chinese or Russian and you won't need the video store anymore to get adult entertainment or anything else because you will probably have perverts that work for the TSA in white vans X-raying vehicles scanning license plates and groping people in the malls and sports events.

[jimbobubbadj]

@TheSilverguy79 Legalized prostitution in a sense right now with the TSA.

[Tempolisto]

I'd like to recommend finding a tent city close to you and showing people that.

[fishstick1978]

were do people shop then ?

[wisdomtrek]

"I began hanging out with you guys and you completely messed my head up!" ....one sympathizes. O.o

[Comptekhs]

Do you ever notice that in the early 90s Christmas was never rushed. Now Christmas starts in October that is what it feels like to me. The 1980s and 1990s were the best years of all I think now everything is over commercialized. Even then music was better now all music is just not worth listening to now.

[jesuswinsalways1]

:) cheers Gregster

[jesuswinsalways1]

When the devil has done his work well, anything to do with Jesus is banned from public life due to 'political correctness.'

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Muslim council of USA protest against this.

[apox2011now]

70's were great because you could probably get a woody at will, the chicks you were bangin' hot because they were in their 20's and you didn't think about much anything else.

The 80's 90's 2000's 2010's were, are still that way still just depends where you are in life.

Truth is today is the best day you have right now.

[ShikamaruTKD]

great video greg. enjoy life buddy...

[eclecticcrap]

I think also Americans with money, brains (and Passports LOL) are moving to better countries while they still can. I was in Colombia recently and the malls there are packed with the most expensive designer brands imaginable . And Colombia is in the third world. What does that say about the USA? LOTS of GRINGOS noe live in Colombia .. Met many..

[jimbobubbadj]

@eclecticcrap I was wondering about Uruguay, Costa Rica and Argentina.

[apox2011now]

70's those stores weren't there. 70's

I couldn't get any where near the type of cool stuff I can buy today!

Couldn't even get a descent baseball hat or football jersey.

Gymshoes? Chuck Taylors or keds. It was a joke.

Way better now. You can buy just about any damn ting you want now!

It's awesome. Look at the bikes motorcycles etc you can get?

Amazing.

[eclecticcrap]

I have to admit Greg. this looks dire. I am in Canada and here things are way more "normal" (so-far). Cant imagine wanting to live in a ghost town.. sorry about that ...

[apox2011now]

virtual entertainment, virtual reality, virtual commerce, virtual interaction.

No need for all those retail places. New times no biggie.

[SilverLadyBug999]

Gandhi said " Make the injustice visible" .

[apox2011now]

it's just reality. And it's going to get a lot worse. A lot worse.

Wait until the bombs start dropping. Major training

even defensive operations in the air where I am.

Daily 24/7.

A slight break on the weekend.

[ShikamaruTKD]

@apox2011now they are gettn ready to attack iran

[apox2011now]

@ShikamaruTKD

oh yeah.. big time. Like "Empire of the Sun" here without the bombs.

[anthcybo]

At least you weren't born right when the country started going down hill.

[rayrockusa]

so did people move out of the area or everyone is broke?

[ScrapGoldBusiness]

@rayrockusa

I think broke. Tough row to hoe for small businesses.

[MaxAir365]

@rayrockusa prescott was always dead except for rehabs, I get the point hes trying to say but go to a city, not town, and do this video and see its not as bad u think although its getting there but this isnt as sad as u make it

[huskerbird1]

about as unbiased as any greg. and yep. we get the commercials about the phoney terrorists here in Ok too. Now we have been getting the emergency broadcast message and they are sinc'd. i think the next black flag is just around the corner. Drones, nuke suitcases, and a phoney Iranian enemy.

[WiseSilverWolf]

Its definitely getting pretty bad, very few jobs and lots of people unemployed fighting over the few crappy jobs that there actually are.

[rayrockusa]

is that snow?

[ScrapGoldBusiness]

@rayrockusa

Yep, It snowed here already.

[odin422]

i feel ya Greg, i can relate, believe me. But my generation and the generations after me never got the good times of the 50-60-70-80's decades, we got the 90's the fuckin' 00's and now we r here, so at least u have a good old days to remember, i cant reflect on any. hahaha