3200 major brand stores, out of free money. The 'hard landing' has arrived.

Women will always be the largest group of consumers, compared to a guy like me who doesn't have furniture (except for a couple of chairs to go with my computer desk, Lol!) In my 1bdrm apartment. Don't need anything, except room to lean my fishing rods against a wall.

@sauger1001: I'm sure you've seen those memes where it shows a pic of a guys apartment with just a comfortable armchair, a side table to hold his beverage a tv and an some sort of entertainment console. and women asking how guys live like this. Then it shows a chicks room taht's either a slovenly mess or a room stuffed with junk and some reference to her total debt. I love those. We are function over fashion and it's so great!

A very good point. I think it's just brick and mortars that are suffering because so much consuming has gone online.

Yep. People are living WAY beyond their means, like total fools. I'm getting my resources into tangible assets, because I think the inflation and other tricks are going to absolutely smash our dollars.

@sauger1001: Damn right. I have a desktop, a desk for the PC, and a recliner. No couch or anything. Idiots on Twitch are spending $2000 for a gaming "racing" chair (made in China) and I have an old hand-me-down recliner that's truly comfortable.

@Calling All Stations: Also the hiring practices of brick and mortar. They always have to employ females which is just annoying. As a customer that's not helpful to me at all to have female employees who are too stupid to understand anything. Piss poor management as well. Also again with the streamers. The hypocrites. Companies have plenty of managers and other non-essential staff, but no workers. Because they quit working to e-beg on Locals for example. Part of the blame are the idiots who give their money to total strangers online as well. We used to call these con artists. People online asking for money for anything. Unless of course it's a real product being shipped to your house from a real business that produces something tangible. Opinions aren't worth any money.

@Toki: Man, you all make me feel bad... I got a lot of furniture but I bought most of it on sale or from th4 damaged/bargain bin. My oldeest, my bed, was a hand me down. However, with the exception of two cheap desks I bought on Amazon, a desk, a table, and this one couch with cup holders and matching lazy boy, I had not bought anything in like five years? I made a mistake of financing that couch with lazy boy, a futon (my parents and sister was going to visit- it serves as a couch or bed in my office)and side table a couple of years ago though still on sale... I was like fuck this shit. I'm going back to paying cash like I always had. I had to pay them every payday. I do want a Purple mattress for my back though but the Lockdown (loss of hours) and inflation had been interfering. I take it back my bedroom desk which I bought and repaired when I was in college is the oldest furniture: We had to repair it's leg and replace the missing handles.