[codingmyway]

As a non american driving in the US what strikes you a lot of the sheer swathes of parking lots, retail parks, advertising boards and drive through McDonalds, KFCs and Taco Bells that go on and on for miles. How there is enough business left in the internet age to keep these from becoming concrete wastelands I don't know.

[maxsilver]

What gets me is that they're still building new ones anyway.

It seems like such a disconnect to hear various news reports over and over claim that "US retailers are closing stores", and yet still see lots of new retail construction all over -- not just one or two stores, but entire outlet malls and such.