 So what's going on in Philipsburg? Is it okay? Hey there, NJBrew22.com here with a retail vlog today and this is about the Philipsburg area. I mean, I'm not talking about Philipsburg proper necessarily, but the whole Philipsburg area, the whole, that whole western chunk of New Jersey, you know, with Route 22 and 78 there. That's Philipsburg, little Pat Kong, Po Hat Kong, Stewardsville, Greenwich. I call it Philipsburg. That whole area is Philipsburg to me. You notice that some stores are getting shuttered. There are two major stores in a strip mall here, Staples and Best Buy are gone. I just wonder what the whole, and there's an A&P, that all A&P is closed. It wasn't just Philipsburg. I mean, is this area just doing badly or the retail? Now with a couple major stores closing, I wonder why retail is doing so bad there. I mean, one possible reason is that it was just oversaturated for the economic potential in the area. It's not the most wealthy area of the state and there's plenty of other action across the river in Pennsylvania. So I'm just wondering, you know, was it like a big Walmart going in there, just sucking the business out of those other stores? Or is it just, and you know, you have all this stuff, you have a Home Depot, you have a Lowe's, you know, even the Philipsburg Mall up the road there. That's pretty much, you can just, that's on life support. I don't think that's coming back anytime soon. And you just wonder if this is natural capitalism, like only the strong survive. And I know for a long time, this area did well because of relatively positive economic conditions. And now things have, the tide has turned. A lot of the jobs are now outsourced to foreign countries. And many jobs also are e-commerce type jobs, you know, like the Amazons and all these other logistic companies. So the market has shifted a lot. So how long will this last? Will it ever bounce back? Will local politicians install more housing so that there's more of an economic base in that area? I don't know. It could be an interesting next 10 years to see what happens to this area. So that's it. That's my rambling for today. If you like the whole thing here, hit the button and the button and all that other stuff. And I'll see you next video.