Interesting thread. Was actually talking about this yesterday with my lady friend and brother. Utah. We really didn't get hit to bad economically, imo. Nothing really closed down much but everywhere is hiring.

She manages a store in the mall and said almost every store is hiring and some even running shortened schedules due to lack of staffing.

I went for a grocery run yesterday and the deli had signs posted that it was closed indefinitely due to lack of staff.

Brother went to Subway yesterday and only one worker w/ owner running the entire shop. When asked why, he was told that all the rest of the workers got up and quit one day. Everyone is advertising starting wages at an average of $13/hour. Very odd.