Then, there's the increasingly hostile bands of roving yutes inside, behaving territorially.
Maybe this is not the case in other parts of the country, but the era of the enclosed megamall seems to be drawing to a close, here. The flush of success and the crowds are in the “town center” style retail complexes. Park nearby, exterior ingress and egress, no bands of roving yutes behaving territorially.
All in all, it's a more pleasant experience, even considering the vagaries of weather.
“I wonder just how much decline for certain retailers could be associated with their location in enclosed shopping malls. I haven’t set foot in one for years. The parking is inconvenient and not everyone has the time or interest to run the gauntlet of a half mile or more to get what they’re there to buy.
Then, there’s the increasingly hostile bands of roving yutes inside, behaving territorially.
Maybe this is not the case in other parts of the country, but the era of the enclosed megamall seems to be drawing to a close, here. The flush of success and the crowds are in the “town center” style retail complexes. Park nearby, exterior ingress and egress, no bands of roving yutes behaving territorially.
All in all, it’s a more pleasant experience, even considering the vagaries of weather.”
I’m beginning my third year of not going into enclosed malls. Miserable selection of stores and miserable stock on hand combined with miserable clerks.
Our towncenter has been a flop. The orginal owner of the center would drive successful business out by tripling their rent or sometimes more. He has lot of younger generation relatives to support with jobs they are really miserable at.
Then, our left wing Nanny city council refuses to bring in good retail chain stores which have the resources to help keep them in business. So they keep selecting local left wing losers to open up cutsy left wing boutiques with terrible stocking and the worse managers/clerk they can find in the towncenter and the main street to get to and from the town center.
This past Christmas week, my wife didn’t believe me re the blight of closed stores. So I took her on a walk past the 20+ closed stores on the main street to the town center. In the town center where only a handful of merchants still surviving. These merchants have clean stores, mechandise that is current/fresh and not that available elsewhere. Usually the owners are there with long time employees.
My wife after seeing the blight, now believes me that the liberals controlling our city are killing it by only allowing their peers to open up a cutesy/guaranteed to fail business.
I like walking around outside. Why would I go in an enclosed mall to buy someting unless I have to?