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Dead Shopping Malls.
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Malls are dead. When you put together outrageous leases with a lack of foot traffic, you get empty malls. Many of our local malls have integrated movie theaters and large restaurant and bar presences to boost patronage, but it only goes so far.
Many of your traditional anchor stores such as JC Penney, Macy’s, Sears, and Burdines have been faltering as of late and can’t keep people coming to the stores.
The dozen or so mall riots by “teens” will surely bring people back.
Second tier malls are dead. First tier malls are doing just fine. In fact, one of the biggest malls in the country, the King of Prussia Mall, is undergoing a massive expansion. Others in exclusive suburbs of Washington, Atlanta and Dallas, to name a few cities, are too. Its the ones that don’t attract high end stores and that did not improve their appearance that are dying.
We need to keep malls as safe havens when the undead attack.
Nowadays they build ‘trendy’ malls that look just like downtown blocks and they’re open-air. Who wants to muck about shopping in a selection of stores you’ve got to walk to in crappy weather? Rather ignores the convenient logistics of an enclosed mall. I don’t get that one.
I go to a large indoor mall once every three years. The stores I patronize all seem to be in large strip malls. I prefer walking outside to buy stuff to being cooped up inside a mall in a “controlled situation”
for several years now i have avoided the malls during the holidays... i buy online for the most part... i went to the mall twice in December... once to see a movie, and once to eat lunch at a restaurant in the mall... i take that back—3 times... the third time was to meet our large family at Buca di Beppo—which is at the mall...
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Wasn’t there a female singer in the 80’s who’s whole deal was putting concerts on in Malls and she even had an MTV video of it? Guess she’s having a tough time getting people to her concerts now....
Randall Park Mall, once the biggest mall in the world, is in the process of being torn down.
Beachwood Mall, the creme de la creme of Cleveland malls, has lost its' sparkle and its' upper-crust appeal because of car thefts, opportunistic black crime and violence.
And now, you can get whatever you need online, so lots of people don't even go there anymore, because it's so much easier, less dangerous, and often cheaper online.
Malls, at least mega-malls seem to have outlived their place in history.
Malls are amusement parks for the easily led cup droolers and old America types who were convinced they had unlimited money to shop every week for doodads and trinkets.
For the most part, those days are way over.
What I have seen in my neck of the woods is malls that are struggling or closed are typically older and now within the travel range of unsupervised urban teens. Not surprisingly, a herd of young teens girls attracts a herd of young teen gang members. Viola, no sensible adult urban or suburban dweller will shop there anymore. Same thing happened to downtown city centers in the early 70’s. Interestingly, many city centers are reviving again to create a thriving inner ring and outer ring separated by center ring of urban blight.
Malls killed downtown.
Internet online shopping killing malls.
There’s nothing at a mall that you can’t get cheaper and with much less hassle at an outlet.
I NEVER go to malls-you’re just paying their rent for them
Haven’t been to a mall in 10 years, at least.
I’ve made a few shopping trips to unique free-standing stores when I had to get very specific items.
I used to call on the phone and have what I want delivered.
Now I buy almost exclusively on-line.
I don’t buy on impulse, so waiting one day for delivery is never an issue.
The Mall craze of the 1980’s is long over.
As for the “Exclusive Malls”, it’s all made in China/Pakistan/India or some other low-wage hell hole.
Those “Italian leather” boots came from Bulgaria, those “Egyptian Cotton” sheets came from India, that oh so chic kitchen ware is recycled Pintos melted down in Pakistan, and that interesting sounding fillet you are so keen on is actually a renamed “Garbage Fish” spawned in a Chinese fish farm reminiscent of a blocked-up leech field.
Recovery comes when we begin to recognize true value once again. A bright and shiny apple your kid picks from a tree you planted in your own backyard.
We HAD to go to JC Penney’s recently. Went to one store that is a brand new (2 years old) stand alone store. 3 days before Christmas and there weren’t 30 cars in the parking lot. Their selection of men’s suits was paltry. We went to another mall based one later. Selection was better yet, for an infrequent and relatively high end purchase, there was no one on the floor to help.
A compendium of dead malls at www.deadmalls.com.
-PJ
How many attacks have happened in malls in the last six years? No thanks.