Hot in recession: Cheaper wine, chocolate, SpamAP - 19 minutes agoSent 557 times WASHINGTON - It's not all doom and gloom in the U.S. economy. Some products are bucking the recession and flying off store shelves.
There are a lot of niches that are doing quite nicely. Thank the media, again, for putting the fear of doom and gloom out there.
And, BTW, yes, some industries are suffering but this isn't something that doesn't happen all the time. Just now, they (themedia) are watching out to report it.
They always sell well here. But then we have been living under the conditions the whole US is facing now for years here. I don't know that it's in a full downward slide nationwide, but it does seem like more and more of the country is becoming like West Virginia, but then we have had everything locally under those conditions for a long time. If it continues to expand the way it did here, it will get worse. There have been a lot of layoffs here, the young couple across from us that just bought their house and had a baby, the man lost his job. But, since we have already been at this point so long, I think it's less noticeable here, you can't lose what you never had to begin with.
Some of those conditions have been like that here too for a long time. There are so many poor families in SC that barely have a roof over their head and some don't even have a inside bathroom. They buy the cheapest thing at the store, which usually is the worst thing health-wise. SC is the 5th worst over-weight state in the US. Most of these people are young families that don't know better and just pick up prepackaged cheap stuff at the market because of the price and it's quick. They don't have to eat like that, for there is so much local seafood and product that they could get for no more than what they are paying for the junk or even cheaper if they would just do a little fishing themselves.
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