{"id":10429,"date":"2008-12-30T16:01:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T16:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/mike_elgan_0_things_that_wont_survive_the_recession\/"},"modified":"2008-12-30T16:01:25","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T16:01:25","slug":"mike_elgan_0_things_that_wont_survive_the_recession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10429","title":{"rendered":"Mike Elgan: 10 things that won&#39;t survive the recession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>9. Half of all retail stores<br \/>\nMany retail stores are obsolete and will be replaced by online competitors. Entire malls will become ghost towns. By this time next year, most video game stores, book stores and toy stores &#8212; as well as many other categories &#8212; will simply vanish. Amazon.com will grow and grow.<\/p>\n<p>10. Satellite radio<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sorry, Howard Stern. It&#8217;s over. The newly merged Sirius XM Radio simply cannot sustain its losses. The company is already deeply in debt and would need to dramatically increase subscribers over the next six months in order to meet its debt obligations. Unfortunately, new car sales, where a huge percentage of satellite radios are sold, are in the gutter and stand-alone subscriptions are way down.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/archives\/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&#038;A=\/article\/08\/12\/23\/10_things_that_wont_survive_the_recession_1.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9. Half of all retail stores Many retail stores are obsolete and will be replaced by online competitors. Entire malls will become ghost towns. By this time next year, most video game stores, book stores and toy stores &#8212; as<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10429\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}