JC Penney Going the Way of the Penny?

JC Penney may be aping its homonym coin

As the brick and mortar retailer struggles to not the ranks of the bankrupt join

130 to 140 stores soon to be closed

As in store sales fall and online sales rose

A tidal wave of closing of brick and mortar outlets is sweeping across the land

Long established big box and chain retailers disappearing faster than castles built of sand

While Amazon continues to expand like the proverbial rocket

Rising stock price putting billions of dollars in shareholders’ pockets

Its drones swarming like flies

Delivering products with drone numbers to almost block out the Sun in the sky

The carbon footprint of UPS and FedEx increasing each day

Sending the growing online orders on their way

Even our hobbled Post Office still bleeding billions of red ink

Has become a valued part of the online to consumer delivery link

Who would have ever guessed back in 1994 when online shopping first started to appear That it would expand at a hyper speed and in 20 years the brick and mortars would start to disappear

Only two flies in the ointment that should cause us all concern

That would cause our retail market to crash and burn

A massive data breach hacking attack or a wave of denial of service hacks

By cyber scumbags who merchants’ security systems have managed to crack

And for those who have defaulted on their bills and ignored their credit scores

No way to access the online shopping stores

 © February 24, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet 

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