For those of you acquainted with the old expression, it seems fitting to me that the latest luxury retail store to shutter its doors in the slowly-suffocating downtown Palo Alto, was none other than Shinola.
![shinola](https://slopeofhope.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/shinola-640x291.png)
Speaking of retail, we’re definitely starting to crack that insanely-steep uptrend.
![XRT](https://slopeofhope.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/XRT-578x1024.png)