[Vision2020] water sale bill

[Sue Hovey]

Unfortunately for local business,  my college age grandkids and their 
friends are now doing the bulk of their "mall" shopping on the Internet. 
Young shoppers' habits are changing pretty dramatically, I bet.  If one is 
going to tout the new infusion of their money into our economy as a reason 
for more mall entities, surely those new habits need to be figured into the 
equation.

Sue H
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Marcy" <kmmos1 at verizon.net>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] water sale bill


> On Monday 09 February 2009 10:34:03 Kai Eiselein, Editor wrote:
> <snip>
>> Looking at it, the mall "may" be a good idea. I'll tell you why:
>> Because we have raised a couple of generations of "Mall Rats", a mall 
>> with
>> the shops that today's kids expect may very well be a draw for 
>> prospective
>> to students to both universities. That translates into outside $ flowing
>> into the communities and that is a good thing.
> <snip>
>
> It is wonderful to read that the recent years' burgeoning market in youth
> fantasy literature has lead to, in older adults, such wonderfully 
> creative,
> if self-serving, conclusions that the Greater Palouse Metropolitan 
> Shopping
> Area will become such a high-demand shopping destination that university
> students from around the country will actually make a local school their
> choice because of the local shopping characteristics.
>
> Admittedly, I have not done any economic research on this question, but of 
> all
> the factors that students and their parents take into consideration when
> choosing a college, I suspect that the strength of local shopping is not 
> high
> on the list. The last time I looked at US News and World Report's 2009
> Edition of America's Best Colleges, I am quite sure I did not see a column
> inside labeled Shopaholic Satisfaction Index, SSI, the higher value of 
> which
> indicated a better educational value at the associated institution.
>
> Economic development is a good thing, but causal delusions are 
> detrimental.
>
>
> Ken
>
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