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post 1690217893 09-17-2023, 01:17 PM
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It's sad what's happening to so many malls

Malls even in small/medium sized towns used to be cool places with places to eat, watch movies, trendy stores, etc.

Now many of them are circling the drain and look like something out an apocalypse movie with how they start neglecting maintenance/asphalting parking lot/empty stores/a few lowly depressed looking people roaming around...closing around 6pm.

In my fairly large metro you used to have probably 10 malls that were at least decent...now maybe 1 or 2.
post 1690218003 09-17-2023, 01:19 PM
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So help them out by doing drag strip shows op.
post 1690218053 09-17-2023, 01:20 PM
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That’s a wonderful thing, there shouldn’t be any malls, and it’s good for Amazon stock as well, since I own a lot of that.
post 1690218113 09-17-2023, 01:21 PM
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In my city the next new mall eats the previous one. I’ve seen three so far, top dog is currently mall of Louisiana and it’s going strong, Sears did close a couple years ago but a seasonal store took its place Halloween, Christmas, Mardi Gras, etc.
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post 1690218153 09-17-2023, 01:22 PM
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Malls are experiencing their version of white flight since way too many degenerate trashy people started going there in hoardes starting in the early 2000's.
post 1690218213 09-17-2023, 01:23 PM
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Originally Posted By kusok⏩
That’s a wonderful thing, there shouldn’t be any malls, and it’s good for Amazon stock as well, since I own a lot of that.
Cortana mall closed here some years ago and now it’s a massive Amazon joint, lol.

https://www.brproud.com/news/local-n...nt-center/amp/
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post 1690218253 09-17-2023, 01:23 PM
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Yes it is. Steve Jobs ruined the world.
post 1690218263 09-17-2023, 01:23 PM
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Originally Posted By Getter_done⏩
So help them out by doing drag strip shows op.
You'd like that wouldn't ya
post 1690218313 09-17-2023, 01:25 PM
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They need to bring back the "Red Barron" and "Farrells"
post 1690218323 09-17-2023, 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted By ScrillaIsBake⏩
I got 2 malls in town. One is poverty and always empty the other ones things are poppin' and pretty popular hangout srs
seems like malls are getting funneled down to where you might have 5 that are decent then 3...and then like 1 mall where everyone wanting to go to a mall will go. these last malls standing can then better afford keeping things looking good, security, etc.
post 1690218503 09-17-2023, 01:30 PM
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Like 5 years ago I passed through one of my old "home towns" (the area I've lived the longest - and lived there two different times), and stopped at the mall I used to go to a lot. Went there a bunch from the early to mid 90s and then from the early to late 2000's. When I went there five years ago...it was like a ghost town.

More things have shut down since I was last there (and I also was there pre covid so...). Kind of depressing.
post 1690219153 09-17-2023, 01:48 PM
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Yeah. Online shopping really did put it on life support and this was pre-Covid. Covid pulled the plug pretty much.
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post 1690219253 09-17-2023, 01:49 PM
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malls here are just gathering grounds for ghetto youth.
post 1690219283 09-17-2023, 01:50 PM
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Originally Posted By BalognaNbeans⏩
You'd like that wouldn't ya
Wow how dare you hehe
post 1690219413 09-17-2023, 01:54 PM
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Originally Posted By Dermatology⏩
malls here are just gathering grounds for ghetto youth.
yeah a few like that here too. one of them used to be kinda nice but a few months ago apple and about 5 other big stores had enough of the youfs and checked out. that's when i knew it was over for that particular mall.
post 1690219603 09-17-2023, 02:00 PM
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post 1690219633 09-17-2023, 02:02 PM
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nah malls around these parts are always poppin
post 1690219673 09-17-2023, 02:03 PM
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Originally Posted By PrimarisIn⏩
nah malls around these parts are always poppin
Puma sales through the roof.
post 1690219693 09-17-2023, 02:04 PM
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I walked in one last week

My optometrist, only place left

I was walking thinking how this place used to be hopping

And now its ready for a bulldozer

It was bizarre
post 1690219893 09-17-2023, 02:09 PM
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Originally Posted By wasp9166⏩
I walked in one last week

My optometrist, only place left

I was walking thinking how this place used to be hopping

And now its ready for a bulldozer

It was bizarre
For those that remember like 1995 on a Friday night...the mall was packed. And it was people of all income levels, races, ages. Restaurants, game rooms, movies, shopping, a place to just walk...mall felt cool.
post 1690220233 09-17-2023, 02:17 PM
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A big, often overlooked part of what has been wrecking shopping malls as a plausible business concept over the past 10 - 15 years is that the fat cat ownership groups of malls would rather let stores sit empty and rot rather than lower their insane rental fees. It's ridiculous seeing how many shopping malls have allowed half or more of their main anchor stores go out of business, and leave huge stores empty for years on end.
post 1690221963 09-17-2023, 02:49 PM
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Had to go this morning for eyeglass repair as soon as they opened at 12 and it was light but when i went to my car the parking lot was crowded.

This place has nice restaurants so who knows what is really going on.

Cheescake, Maggianos, PF Changs....
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post 1690222353 09-17-2023, 02:58 PM
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Originally Posted By x-trainer
Had to go this morning for eyeglass repair as soon as they opened at 12 and it was light but when i went to my car the parking lot was crowded.

This place has nice restaurants so who knows what is really going on.

Cheescake, Maggianos, PF Changs....
One mall with those places here. Most areas will probably get to where you have one or two kinda high end nice malls while all the others circle the drain until they close.
post 1690222473 09-17-2023, 03:01 PM
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Originally Posted By kusok⏩
That’s a wonderful thing, there shouldn’t be any malls, and it’s good for Amazon stock as well, since I own a lot of that.
Lol fkn lol @ stockcels.

Stockcels don't care about the wellbeing of their environment, as long as their "stocks" is doing well. Nothing is more useless than stocks.
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post 1690222563 09-17-2023, 03:02 PM
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The mall closest to me is pretty busy still. The one near where I grew up is pretty dead.
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post 1690222843 09-17-2023, 03:11 PM
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OP I’m sure you would be able to formulate a solution if you put your mind to it. In fact I bet you already know how to fix it.

Why are you hiring the solution? Why are you keeping the answer to yourself?

In the future you’re already known as the man who fixed the mall crisis situation.
post 1690222883 09-17-2023, 03:11 PM
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Originally Posted By theory816⏩
Lol fkn lol @ stockcels.

Stockcels don't care about the wellbeing of their environment, as long as their "stocks" is doing well. Nothing is more useless than stocks.
LOL -- kinda like absentee landlords that let homes turn to chit/lower property values of others because they only care about the check in the mail.
post 1690222953 09-17-2023, 03:12 PM
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I like to get High and walk around the mall
post 1690222983 09-17-2023, 03:12 PM
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I wish malls were still happening, unfortunately e-commerce and crime are working against malls
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