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Really? This sounds very interesting, as the USA is the place that i would expect to have the most malls.
by mlcruz 1y ago
Really? This sounds very interesting, as the USA is the place that i would expect to have the most malls.
- thfuran 1y agoAmazon then COVID wrecked them.
- pimlottc 1y agoCOVID might have finally done some stragglers in, but large scale indoors malls in the US were pretty well wrecked long before that
- keiferski 1y agoMalls are looked back on nostalgically as a 90s/2000s thing by a big percentage of the population. The whole mallwave genre is one example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallsoft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallsoft There are still many huge malls, but generally speaking the vast majority of them have closed, are empty, or are being rebranded into something else.
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- benatkin 1y agoThe comment you're replying to still holds. > the USA is the place that i would expect to have the most malls It's just that a lot of the malls have been augmented or replaced by strip malls. They have the same kinds of stores and they are still close enough to each other that it's convenient. Many have security, though it's more for the property than it is for the employees or guests, and there are large ones all over the place. You can go to Target and get a $14 can opener that you were hoping to pay $5 for but they made sure not to carry any cheap can openers, and notice there's a cell phone store nearby and go and get locked into a contract where you pay more than double. Don't forget to get some boring, expensive, and unhealthy food on the way out.
- keiferski 1y agoStrip malls aren’t the same thing and don’t have the nostalgic factor. They also don’t have the sense of place that malls did in their heyday – who goes to hang out at a strip mall, for example?
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- FirmwareBurner 1y ago>This sounds very interesting, as the USA is the place that i would expect to have the most malls. Since online shopping took over, why would Americans travel long distances by car to go to the mall?
- hansvm 1y agoSome things are still a lot easier to buy in-person, like books and clothes. Online stores rarely have enough information about the product, either as a whole (materials, specs, etc) or as an instance (wear and tear, etc).