Discount shopping at a high end district: Good thing or bad thing?

[SOPi_Jawbreaker]

I agree with what everyone else is saying. I think the high-end stores and the discount stores have different clientele and having these stores on the same street is not going to cause customers from the high-end stores to go to the discount stores. I think if the high-end stores are saying they're afraid of losing business to the discount stores, it's probably a lame excuse to cover up what they're really thinking. Like RedRoseSAI said, they're probably feeling like there goes the neighborhood now the proletariat have moved in.