Retail is depressing. Thoroughly depressing. Coachella Valley, California, is more typical of retailing throughout the U.S. than Manhattan is — where I normally live. Here we have a big highway, called SR 111, strewn with big box stores like Best Buy, Staples, JCPenney, Walgreens, CVS, Macys, Barnes and Noble and Petco. Twenty years ago, these […]