Inland Empire
Many are traveling over the long holiday weekend to areas outside of the Inland Empire. The 4th of July is almost here and everybody is leaving work early or taking the entire day off, to get a head start on the festivities. This means that the roads are jam packed with SUV’s and vans and lifted trucks and other vehicles that muscle their way around this area normally. No on of sound mind can say their looking forward to that. In fact many, because of poor economic conditions and the insane price of gas these days, aren’t traveling. They are choosing instead to stay local and save money.
Of the areas in southern California that are hurting the most from the depressed economic conditions, the Inland Empire is feeling it the most. The housing slump started everything off with record foreclosures every month. This was followed by the lightening quick jump in gas prices, which took out everyone’s personal petty cash and continues to do so. That means that normal working individuals can no longer afford to get their morning or early afternoon latte at Starbucks anymore because the money just isn’t there to do it anymore. In fact, Starbucks just reported that they are closing over 600 underperforming stores in the US. This is quite unprecedented for a chain that has for the past decade or two, spread like wildfire all over the world.
For the Inland Empire, people are finally starting to regret purchasing those gas guzzling trucks and spending all their money on sand toys but don’t know what to do beyond that to save money. One solution for businesses is for Inland Empire web design to improve. Once this happens on a massive scale, business investors might again see this area as a good prospect with which to bring their company into.
