Posted on 01/05/2015 7:45:37 AM PST by C19fan
And that thug element is the elephant in the room nobody wants to talk about.
Nobody wants to say that feral youth scare off legitimate shoppers. Instead activists blame mall management for inadequate security or inadequate repair and maintenance of the mall. They complain that they don’t have high end department stores. But they don’t address certain problems which cause the customer base to fade away. We are so politically correct that we have to dance around certain topics when discussing problems with malls.
Nobody wants to say that feral BLACK youth scare off legitimate shoppers.
I'll let folks from southern California comment on whether or not feral hispanic youth destroy malls ... feral white youth and feral asian youth don't, at least not in any area I have lived.
Until folks are able to speak in those terms we can never have an honest dialog.
My entire existence is wrapped around keeping my family safe. Those people are a threat to our safety, so I refuse to go where they gather. That is the crux of why malls are dying.
I agree. I buy about 80% of all my purchases on line, including many food items.
Clothes, shoes, you name it.
I'm a guitar player and have 7 guitars. The last three I bought on line. They are perfect and delivered to my door, NO SHIPPING.
Needless to say, I shop on line.
FMCDH(BITS)
Yeah, the demographics are tough at White Flint. You’ve got all those Georgeown Prep teenagers nearby, and gangs of Stone Ridge girls a short bus ride away. And then the after-hours gangs from NIH show up ....
The malls that are easily accessible by public transit are the ones that are dying.
Groups of “teens”, and not just the “amish” teens, are why people with spending money stopped going to the malls.
Who wants to put up with that when they don’t have to.
There have been other changes as well, but the death of “the mall” is largely due to badly behaving and criminal “teens”.
In 1985 or 86, my cousin was doing union masonry work on a huge mall being built in Central Jersey. He told me that huge mall buildings were built to last only about 30 years. So... Bridgewater Commons... Get ready for the wrecking ball!
A compendium of dead malls at www.deadmalls.com.
-PJ
How many attacks have happened in malls in the last six years? No thanks.
Yeah, what could possibly go wrong?
How many, um, "yutes" are around? Do you think that might have anything to do with their success?
Totally agree. i’m not a “browser” shopper, I know what I want and that’s all I want. Online works just fine for that, and I don’t have to put up with crowds.
Got one of those gaudy upscale malls just up the street.
Have been inside it perhaps 3 times in the past 20 years.
Just never have a reason to go there.
I don’t smoke cigars.
I’m not in the market for a grand piano.
And, even if I were a cross-dresser, I wouldn’t pay those prices.
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