All of your aspirational yuppie mall brands like Pottery Barn and Williams Sonoma and Coach (which used to be legitimately fancy, years ago, before they decided to start selling loudly branded handbags to Bethesdan tweens) are having to lower prices permanently because nobody has money anymore and they don’t want to get people used to insane 75% off sales all the time. MORE »

Let’s listen to WTOP for a minute, always fun for a laugh, uhm: “With nobody shopping and more stores vacant, three area shopping centers will scale back their hours starting next week.” Jesus! Isn’t that a nice punch in the mouth, for lunch? Westfield Montgomery Shopping Center, Westfield Wheaton Shopping Center and Westfield Annapolis Mall will all start opening later and closing earlier, the end. [WTOP]