Gossip: Bad retail environment.

So, the other week I caught up with a friend from undergrad who's half of a two-person fashion-and-accessories small business.

She had been working crazy crazy hours, like full days seven days a week, and I was surprised to hear that she was doing all she could to keep the business alive, and she was getting ticked because her accessories endeavors were propping up the clothing lines run by the other person, since the bottom had dropped out of that.

"No one has any money!", she was like, and added that if Macy's was having problems, they were going to have problems.

Fortunately, though, people tend to still buy accessories when the economy is bad, she said.