I get it at last. The decline of American newspapers and the failure of department stores are the same auto-destructive principle. If you’re a newspaper you cover less and less news by hiring no reporters. Hence: there’s nothing to read. If you’re the local Sears you hire no staff so customers can’t actually find or buy anything.
“Ah,” say the HR types. “We cant afford their wages.”
Well can the HR industry afford a bread line? A soup kitchen? How about more prisons?
Does anyone remember the era of the department store floor walker? Does anyone recall the days of serious local news reporting?
Planet of the Blind 
The relationship is even more tight: who are the biggest buyers of ad pages in newspapers? Department stores!
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