Monday I took a trip to my local Costco. This journey is probably the primary reason I still own a car, but always fills me with dread as their parking lot is laughably small. So I figure I'd time my approach to perfection - the twilight between executive card holders and us peons. But, when I go to the lot it was about 20% empty. I figured, maybe it was the first of the month and people had run out of the previous month's money (but that hadn't noticeably imp[acted them in the past).

So, the next day, the boss asked mee to chauffer her to Kohls which resides in a strip mall with a larger parking lot than the Costco. Well the parking lot was nearly empty - as was the store.

This, of course is just anecdotal, but spooky none the less.

Jeff