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Projected employment decline: -5.9%
Projected revenue decline: -5.3%
Projected gross product decline: -5.5%
Unless operators can figure out how to make bowling hip again, this industry is expected to draw less of the teenagers and families that were once its life blood. Combined with a decrease in league play and membership, the industry finds itself trending toward the gutter. To attract customers, bowling companies AMF and Brunswick have turned their bowling alleys into full-on entertainment centers.