Oh, I dunno, maybe because EVERYONE is slow and stores are going bankrupt and closing everywhere??!?!
Get your head out of the sand and your own fishbowl and have a look around. What do you see?
Empty stores, bankruptcies, layoffs, at almost every retailer. Hello? Hello?
Yes, I know the talking head on your TV set tells you all is well, and the talking head must always be truthful and right, but, but.....what if he's full of S___T and the reality you see in front of your own eyeballs is actually right?
Wow....what a concept! Believe what's right staring you in the face instead of the TV set.