Paul, with the Sears store in the Fargo Mall closing I've learned a few things I didn't know about malls. When they started the big store, Sears, Penny's ECT were the drawing cards. They got cheap leases compared to the smaller stores because they were the stores that drew customers in. Jump forward a couple of generations of shoppers and wants, needs and most important spending power changes. When they built the mall in Fergus Falls the to stores that were the draw or anchor stores was Woolworth's and Penny's. Woolworth failed a couple of decades ago and Penny's pulled out a few years ago. The mall is 1/2 gone to make way for a Home Depot and the other 1/2 isn't near full. The big draws there now are Dunham Sports, the Dollar Tree and Herbergure's. Not looking good at all! About 15 years ago Wal Mart was worried. Most of their regular shoppers were older and starting to die off. And they were not catering to the younger crowd. So unless the retailers can react to ever changing customers they will come and go. Another market change besides online shopping is that people are willing to travel a ways to shop. 40 years ago most people here wouldn't drive 90 miles to Fargo to shop. Heck most of the time they wouldn't drive 25 miles to shop in Fergus. We got one or 2 locals here now who commute 90 miles to Fargo daily to work! The teens and younger folks think nothing of going to Fargo. Between them and online anything in between is feeling the pinch! Will the malls die? I think in the long run they will be OK but they better get their ducks in a row.
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Today's Featured Article - A Lifetime of David Brown Tractors - by Samuel Kennedy. I was born in 1950 and reared on my family�s 100 acre farm. It was a fairly typical Northern Ireland farm where the main enterprise was dairying but some pigs, poultry and sheep were also kept. Potatoes were grown for sale and oats were grown to be used for cattle and horse feeding. Up to about 1958 the dairy cows were fed hay with some turnips and after that grass silage was the main winter feed. That same year was the last in which flax was grown on the farm. Flax provided the fibre which w
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