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One thing I've always thought as a big inconvenience with shopping malls was that, although it is great to park once, stay under cover and be able to go to lots of stores, there are no shopping carts that can be used throughout the whole place, unless you bring your own.
So you are loaded with packages to carry or have to keep going out to your car to unload.
Or have I just been to the wrong ones?
I've never seen those either. Also, if it's freezing out you've gotta wear your coat but then it's warm inside. They need lockers to leave your coat in safely at every entrance.
As for carts, I wouldn't use kind that you push, but I would take one that is pulled behind you sorta like a rolling suitcase. I wonder if that would make it easier for shoplifters, though?
In my area we have a dead mall and another that's on the verge of being dead. Military Circle Mall in Norfolk went dead because of the crime and shootings that kept occurring in the parking lot. Chesapeake Square Mall lost Macy's and a few other stores and it has been declining ever since. I think the Target and the movie theatre is what is keeping it afloat. The only time I go there is if I'm going to FYE or the movies. The strip malls and shopping centers are thriving though. Sometimes it is hard to find a parking spot in the strip mall parking lot.
If you love dead malls, Dan Bell's videos are excellent. Also check out Retail Archeology and Ace's Adventures. I would love to make a dead mall video but, that would be the one time when the security guard is actually doing his job and I would get kicked out of the mall for filming. LOL
Here is our local mall, during the Christmas shopping season. Somehow or other they seem to be keeping it open with virtually zero customers. I don't know how.
Dang, that looks like it was taken before the stores opened!
I had an appointment just a block away from the main mall here on Christmas Eve day a few years ago. I asked my provider if I had to leave early due to traffic. She looked at me like I was nuts, but I remember when I first moved here there would be a traffic cam on the news starting the weekend before christmas, and it was bumper to bumper for blocks all around the mall.
So anyway I did go to my appt that day and the traffic was non-existent.
I went clothes shopping last fall during the daytime and it wasn't teeming with people but there were people everywhere I looked.
High end malls are booming and mid-tier to strip malls are dying. This is the sign of the economy, the well to do folks gets richer and middle class gets squeezed by high healthcare cost.
I used to shop at malls but I simply cut back since I have to spend a lot each month on the "unaffordable care act" my premiums each month is $1300/family. Thanks Democrats.
Malls and any discretionary spending will get less because families are just getting by due to the high cost of healthcare.
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Here is our local mall, during the Christmas shopping season. Somehow or other they seem to be keeping it open with virtually zero customers. I don't know how.
As a big time shopper (both for myself and my clients), I always find walking in dead malls relaxing. It is something about it; a nostalgic feelings and a serene atmosphere.
I think I might be the only one. It is kind of like exploring ancient ruin or something.
As a big time shopper (both for myself and my clients), I always find walking in dead malls relaxing. It is something about it; a nostalgic feelings and a serene atmosphere.
I think I might be the only one. It is kind of like exploring ancient ruin or something.
I imagine stores like CVS and Target would close down because you can buy everything there online.
But I could never guess malls would lose walk-in customers. Every piece of clothing that people buy online fits them? Or are they okay with packing up unfit clothes and mailing it back? I’d rather drive to the store to return it, which is the only reason why I’d buy clothes online, if the store was nearby.
In terms of frugality, the shopping mall is not.
As conditions worsen, and people seek to save money, malls will continue to decline.
In fact, when the automobile / pavement / petroleum paradigm collapses, the transition back to electric traction rail will revive the down town shopping areas, especially where population consolidation is taking place.
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