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There is a like an entire block or 2 that sells only fabrics. You can get expensive silks that cost $50 a yard elsewhere for only $7 in Downtown LA. Many places sell quality fabrics for only $1-$2 a yard but would usually cost three or four times as much.
I can see how Los Angeles could be the capital with its vast amounts of ritzy upscale shopping districts, and the fact that SoCal practically invented the American shopping culture...
But I can assure you that in terms of sheer volume of stores/transactions being made/revenues generated, the stores in Dallas would be on the top of the list. I'm not going by stereotypes, I'm just giving honest observations.
Is it anywhere as glamorous of what you would find in California? Absolutely not. But people in Dallas have more money to spend, more space for storage, and really nothing else to do (in comparison to California), but shop for more crap they don't need. Dallas has such a consumer based culture, there's a reason why economy there is almost 'recession proof.'
Not all shopping in LA is ritzy upscale super expensive districts like Rodeo drive if anything there's more malls,strip malls,streets lines with various scales of shops that sell anything from rubber duckies to elephant hides (exaggeration) and you guys are acting like all the shopping was built in the last year..1 1/2-2 years ago the economy was not nearly as bad as it was now and I can assure you people were and still are shopping till there hearts content whether it be fabric a cheap vintage sweater or the latest Louis Vuitton luggage.
I can see how Los Angeles could be the capital with its vast amounts of ritzy upscale shopping districts, and the fact that SoCal practically invented the American shopping culture...
But I can assure you that in terms of sheer volume of stores/transactions being made/revenues generated, the stores in Dallas would be on the top of the list. I'm not going by stereotypes, I'm just giving honest observations.
Is it anywhere as glamorous of what you would find in California? Absolutely not. But people in Dallas have more money to spend, more space for storage, and really nothing else to do (in comparison to California), but shop for more crap they don't need. Dallas has such a consumer based culture, there's a reason why economy there is almost 'recession proof.'
The original question by OP was Which place is best to shop?
Obviously most people correlate that to the amount of quality shopping available as seen by the poll.
Oh Texas and the rest of the south, when will you ever get it... most people don't care for BIGGER is BETTER. Big ol average malls, Big ol Trucks and SUVS, Big ol Burgers, Big Ol Steaks, big ol cookie cutter houses, big ol mcmansions
It is quality over quantity, who cares if you have a bunch of people buying crap if none of the stuff is that good?
This isn't only Texas though... Midwest has this problem too at points. Honestly I couldn't care less about fashion, and don't even like Los Angeles...Just callin it like I see it, Chicago is my favorite city and my 2nd home, but it does this for certain things too so I'm not just pickin on Texas.
If you claim that your city has the best shopping and you use malls to justify your answer, you lose. Sorry. Malls suck. They are the same no matter where you go. Department stores, chain stores, and nothing but boredom when you walk in there. Give me the street front stores anyday over that crap.
The answer is LA. Than Miami. Than a tie between Houston and Dallas though Dallas and Houston has the potential to match Miami in the coming years. They have the income base and the population base to do so. But LA is another beast.
BTW, I must emphasize that malls suck.
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