the mall has been predicted for years. the pandemic speeded it up, seeing a number of retailers closed. we are seeing a high number between now and july. reporter: and they were well-known names. brook brothers filed for bankruptcy protection. reporter: neiman-marcus, gnc and others. reporter: including department stores like jcpenneys. and with that some have found new lives with grocery stores, complexes and even distribution centers for amazon and other online stores, the very businesses that boomed during the pandemic. online it grew three years worth of growth in one year when covid hit. reporter: but covid might have a silver lining. as people got vaccinated and restrictions lifted, many logged off, closed their laptops and headed back to the mall. now in recent months, it feels like a mall again, if that makes sense. reporter: visits to the mall, similar to before the pandemic.
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when we step in a grocery store and celery up 200 percent. acting as the antistimulus if you will because you are taking so much more out of your pocket to pay for gasoline, to pay for groceries that by the end of the day you are saying, nothing is changed in my life, the amount money i make in my paycheck, and suddenly i have less money in my pocket. how do you fight rising ticks? the federal reserve will rate interest rates. but the problem is, according to the government, we do not have inflation and that is the issue because between you and i, coffee is up 97 percent, so what you are paying at starbucks is rising incremental with the coffee is gone through the roof and it will hurt us at the end of the day because with cotton going up 44 percent in six weeks it will cost more for the shirts. brook brothers shirts up 10 percent the last year.