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re: What is wrong with shopping malls?
Posted on 4/22/25 at 9:50 am to Earnest_P
Posted on 4/22/25 at 9:50 am to Earnest_P
Culcha killed malls. Too much milling around aimlessly and too little actual buying. Which then drove away people interested in doing actual buying.
I don’t encounter any culcha shopping on my couch with Amazon.
I don’t encounter any culcha shopping on my couch with Amazon.
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Posted on 4/22/25 at 9:55 am to Earnest_P
Last mall I went to in San Jose/Santa Clara on Stevens Creek Road was very nice. Lots of security and lots of decent stores. Proof that if you have quality stores and security people will come. Metairie mall is not bad.
Posted on 4/22/25 at 10:01 am to Earnest_P
I like to touch, feel and try on the clothes and shoes that I buy. That's why I refuse to convert to online shopping if I can avoid it. I also like to knock out as much shopping as I can in one swoop. OG malls were great for people like me.
Posted on 4/22/25 at 10:05 am to Earnest_P
Idk
I like to try my shite on before I buy vs sending it to my house and seeing of it looks fits right.
That’s just me .
I like to try my shite on before I buy vs sending it to my house and seeing of it looks fits right.
That’s just me .
Posted on 4/22/25 at 10:18 am to Earnest_P
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This thread has been enlightening for me. I thought they were dying all over the country.
Not even close. Especially the more upscale malls. We were in Sarasota for a tournament a few weeks ago and that outdoor mall was absolutely PACKED. Lot of new things going up around it as well like pop stroke and other recreation.
I was kinda shocked by the number of people there. One of the dads on the team said a lot of the popularity is actually coming from teenagers, a lot of them grew up digitally and just like going to do real shite. Imagine that.
This post was edited on 4/22/25 at 10:21 am
Posted on 4/22/25 at 10:28 am to Earnest_P
The three story, ice skating rink in the center Galleria in Houston was the most pleasant shopping experience in that whole city for seven or eight months of the year. Parking was even free and security kept me feeling safe whenever I would go there.
They expanded. and people lived so far away in the ever expanding 'burbs. Even Sakowitz across the street (Westheimer) couldn't hold out.
They expanded. and people lived so far away in the ever expanding 'burbs. Even Sakowitz across the street (Westheimer) couldn't hold out.
Posted on 4/22/25 at 10:31 am to Earnest_P
Unbelievably they are experiencing a pretty robust rebound across the country according to the national association of retailers and commercial shopping trade groups. A lot of money being spent remodeling and upgrading existing malls and actually quite a few new ones being planned across the country. It is hard to imagine but apparently Gen Z is all about the mall about like Gen X was. I know the one in our town is BOOMING. The large anchor stores are largely gone but the mall itself and the food court is about as busy as it was back in its heyday. Our daughter hangs out at the mall at least a couple of days a month and it is PACKED with people and they are buying shite as fast as they can get their credit cards scanned. Its the damndest thing considering how dead the place was just 8 years or so ago....
Posted on 4/22/25 at 10:32 am to IAmNERD
wrong 'crowd"
Posted on 4/22/25 at 10:34 am to Earnest_P
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they are going away but nothing better is replacing them
Amazon is better than the mall...
Posted on 4/22/25 at 10:38 am to Bjorn Cyborg
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In big cities, malls are as busy as they have ever been.
We spent the last 2 weeks in Oahu. There are 2 HUGE malls in Honolulu. My wife and daughter spent about 20 hours in them (and god knows how much money) and they were both PACKED.....very similar to malls back in the 1980s at Christmas time....everyday we were there. Out hotel was a couple of blocks from one of them and it was PACKED from the time it opened until it closed. Admittedly its a tourist spot but its also a pretty good sized city....
We have about 500K in our metro area and we have 2 malls that are still going strong. One of them is a traditional indoor mall and the other is more of a strip center type "mall" similar to newer malls. The indoor one is particularly crowded and folks are buying shite as fast as they can pay for it.
Posted on 4/22/25 at 10:40 am to Earnest_P
Lakeside Mall , in Metairie is thriving today just as much as it was when I grew up in the 80’s .
Posted on 4/22/25 at 10:47 am to St Augustine
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One of the dads on the team said a lot of the popularity is actually coming from teenagers, a lot of them grew up digitally and just like going to do real shite. Imagine that
Nature is healing.
Posted on 4/22/25 at 10:47 am to Earnest_P
The decline started with grab and dash shoppers. You’re in the wrong mall if a retailer has high end purses locked down.
Posted on 4/22/25 at 11:49 am to biglego
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usual trash fricks have found it now
You mean misbehaved teenagers? The tolerance of both security and parents for what their teens do has dropped in the last 20 years, but Katy Mills (I've been twice in the last two years) seems pretty much the same level of teenage retardation as was there 15 years ago. Except maybe with some sex trafficking suspects sprinkled in, since MegaBus stops there.
Posted on 4/22/25 at 12:06 pm to Septiger
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Lakeside Mall , in Metairie is thriving today just as much as it was when I grew up in the 80’s .
True. I'm not much of a shopper, so I don't head out there as often as I once did but the "Anchor Stores" are still there and look to be doing well. I know between Thanksgiving until past Christmas that place is a madhouse.
Posted on 4/22/25 at 1:10 pm to LemmyLives
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but Katy Mills (I've been twice in the last two years) seems pretty much the same level of teenage retardation as was there 15 years ago
It gets much…worse on weekends. It used to be fine even on a Saturday night. Now it’s trashy.
Posted on 4/22/25 at 1:13 pm to IAmNERD
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If they were crowded, they wouldn't be dying.
I just read an article the other day saying Gen Z is reviving them.
Posted on 4/22/25 at 1:14 pm to Earnest_P
Didn't Chris Rock explain this in the 90's?
Posted on 4/22/25 at 1:17 pm to tiggerthetooth
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Movie theaters were also wonderful but the bottom 10% ruined it for everyone else like they ruin everything else for everyone.
And our government and society has allowed it to be ruined,
Used to be these kinds of people were not allowed in polite company.
This post was edited on 4/22/25 at 1:18 pm
Posted on 4/22/25 at 1:26 pm to El Segundo Guy
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El Segundo Guy
Don't cut yourself on all that edge, cowboy.
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