[Vision2020] Fw: water sale bill

[Kai Eiselein, Editor]

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From: "Kai Eiselein, Editor" <editor at lataheagle.com>
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 3:50 PM
To: "Sue Hovey" <suehovey at moscow.com>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] water sale bill

> Ken, your statement is idiotic, I merely stated it could be a draw, a 
> selling point.
> Anybody been to Walmart when the kids arrive? Yup, they sure are shopping 
> online.
> Online shopping is big, no doubt. I do it all the time, especially since 
> the quad cities area has an extremely limited selection of anything I want 
> and/or need. As a matter of fact, my new camera arrived today, fresh from 
> NY. A SATA data cord for one of my computers is on it's way from Georgia.
> How many 20- somethings are going to order clothing online, especially 
> before "that big date"? With a mall within walking/biking distance kids 
> will go after the "instant gratification" over having to wait for 
> something to be shipped.  Additionally, how many online shoppers buy and 
> pay online, then pick up their order at their local store? You can do it 
> with a number of retailers.
> Modern malls are no longer just about shopping, they tout full 
> entertainment opportunities, shopping, dining, movies, the whole package 
> in one location. Centers in the style of the Palouse Mall and whatever is 
> in Pullman are dying because they are no longer relevant. They have been 
> razed all over the country.
> Anybody remember what Spokane's Northtown Mall looked like in the mid 
> 70's? Most of the shops opened to the outside (sound familiar?) and there 
> was a grocery store at the corner of Division and whatever the cross 
> street is.
> Now look at it. With over a million square feet of retail space, does it 
> look ANYTHING like the 70's shopping centers? The owners remade into a 
> place shoppers WANT to go and spend time/money.
>
>
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> From: "Sue Hovey" <suehovey at moscow.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 1:33 PM
> To: "Kenneth Marcy" <kmmos1 at verizon.net>; <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] water sale bill
>
>> 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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> Kai Eiselein
> Editor, Latah Eagle
Kai Eiselein
Editor, Latah Eagle