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Businesses Quietly Declining · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: So we found an article here and the title is
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  Speaker 1: what businesses do you think are quietly declining because younger
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  Speaker 1: generations aren't interested in them?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Interesting?
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  Speaker 1: The answers are very interesting, don't you think. Yes, I
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  Speaker 1: was surprised that dry cleaners is on the list.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's the one that jumped out at me too,
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  Speaker 2: Really dry cleaners. I think I spent a fortune at
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  Speaker 2: the dry cleaners. I must be keeping them going.
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  Speaker 1: Then it says they won't go away entirely, but there
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  Speaker 1: are definitely dying out with fewer people wearing the type
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  Speaker 1: of clothes that need to be dry clean.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, good for you if you can, right, But
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  Speaker 2: maybe that's why they raise their prices like a bank
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  Speaker 2: so much.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe that too, is less.
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  Speaker 2: People are going.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's because we're not wearing many suits anymore, or.
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  Speaker 2: The type the type of clothes like it says like
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  Speaker 2: I've got the in the winter, I have nice sweaters
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  Speaker 2: and stuff that I take to the cleaners, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: people don't want to do it. It's expensive.
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  Speaker 1: Greeting cards are declining with younger generations. Now why could
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  Speaker 1: that be Christine? Because I, no matter what age you are,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like you need a greeting card for somebody
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  Speaker 1: birthday retirements.
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  Speaker 2: We just don't do it anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Bought Mitzvah's not like we used to. Really.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of just texting and you know,
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  Speaker 2: emailing and posting.
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  Speaker 1: This was on the list too, And this just happened
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  Speaker 1: in my town while I live in East Brunswick, which
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  Speaker 1: borders Milltown, New Jersey, and there was a vacuum place
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  Speaker 1: that we always we took our vacuum cleaner to get
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  Speaker 1: serviced and it's been around forever. It just went out
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  Speaker 1: of business. Oh, that sat like two months ago. But
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  Speaker 1: small repair stores like vacuums, clocks, shoes, furniture, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of those are declining because of the younger generations not
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  Speaker 1: needing them.
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  Speaker 2: They're they're closing up in my town too. I can't
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  Speaker 2: find somebody good with shoes. I also can't find a
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  Speaker 2: good tailor, like somebody who's like really really skilled.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, that's been hard to come by it. Maybe people
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  Speaker 2: aren't even going into those industries as much. Like travel agencies,
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  Speaker 2: which we brought up a couple of years ago. I
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  Speaker 2: know you and I found travel agent. Yes, Kelly, Mike, Kelly,
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  Speaker 2: you have a travel agent. She's so wonderful. Yeah, she's
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  Speaker 2: helps me so so much. So, yes, please keep the
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  Speaker 2: travel agents going. They're great.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently country clubs are declining with younger generations. But I
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  Speaker 1: got to tell you, I my dad was a member
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  Speaker 1: of a country club, and uh, I got to use
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  Speaker 1: the nice thing. Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 2: Beautiful, it's nice. Right. Yeah, they're saying a lot of
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  Speaker 2: social clubs are going bye bye cubby? Or are you
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  Speaker 2: okay with this one? Strip clubs? What happens?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Well, first of all, yes, I will
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  Speaker 1: admit back in my twenties the boys would go to
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  Speaker 1: strip clubs occasionally.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, I haven't been to one. Boys, I haven't.
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  Speaker 1: Been to one in many, many years. But I could
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  Speaker 1: it be the internet? Maybe, like, oh, what is that decline?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm kind of okay with it. I mean, yeah, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: I guess they're just not as popular as they used
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  Speaker 2: to be. Traditional banks, that's not.
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  Speaker 1: An old school banks.
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  Speaker 2: Not good?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And then one more on here, why are bowling
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  Speaker 1: alleys declining? Who doesn't love bowling? Well?
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  Speaker 2: Again, a lot of the social I keep hearing these
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  Speaker 2: stats about Americans need to have more fun but we
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  Speaker 2: have less gathering places to have fun because it's so
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  Speaker 2: hard to keep businesses going, and bowling alleys and smaller
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  Speaker 2: theater venues where you could see, you know, live fans
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  Speaker 2: that aren't maybe massively famous, but they're great. Those venues
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  Speaker 2: have been closing. It's just financially we're not able to
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  Speaker 2: keep them going. And it's sad because we're losing these
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  Speaker 2: fun gathering places that you know, the community feel that
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  Speaker 2: we need.
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  Speaker 1: Right they're around forever. Why can't they just keep going
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  Speaker 1: because
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  Speaker 2: We got to go and I guess we're not going