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Post by wildojinx on Apr 21, 2011 19:23:58 GMT -5
In the 80s and 90s shopping malls used to be AWESOME. They had everything from music stores, video arcades, food courts, some even had movie theaters. Plus they seemed to be THE teenage hangout. Nowadays you rarely see teens hanging out at malls, music stores are all but dead (hot topic doesnt count), the video arcades are cheap looking game rooms that only have a limited number of games, and you rarely have in-mall movie theaters now. Not that malls are TRYING to do new things (i saw one mall that has an actual college inside!) but its just not the same. Heck, most people would rather buy high-end stuff (tv's, computers, furniture) at big box retailers like wal-mart than at the mall. What happened?
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Post by The Ichi on Apr 21, 2011 19:25:40 GMT -5
Online shopping happened.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2011 19:25:51 GMT -5
The big box stores killed many of them ded.
But I still go to malls. Just that only one of them in my area is actually worth going to. It's remodeled and is actually putting more upscale selections in it.
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Post by willywonka666 on Apr 21, 2011 19:28:41 GMT -5
Kids have 1 million reasons to stay indoors now for one thing
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Post by wildojinx on Apr 21, 2011 19:29:05 GMT -5
Speaking of malls, do any malls still have in-mall pet stores? While i liked them, it was kind of sad as it basically served as "ogle theater". Most of the time the people in there were all "look at the cute puppies!" then walk away, leaving said puppy lonely. It was rare whenever i saw someone actually TAKE HOME a pet from there.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2011 19:32:58 GMT -5
Speaking of malls, do any malls still have in-mall pet stores? While i liked them, it was kind of sad as it basically served as "ogle theater". Most of the time the people in there were all "look at the cute puppies!" then walk away, leaving said puppy lonely. It was rare whenever i saw someone actually TAKE HOME a pet from there. None in the Phx area anymore, I do believe. Ever since people became more conscious about social issues, pet stores (especially in shopping malls) have mostly died off. |
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Post by VenomFang on Apr 21, 2011 19:58:04 GMT -5
Saying teenagers dont hang out there anymore is a bit of an exaggeration. They are still there in decent sized numbers. I always try to go to the malls at times when they wont be a lot of them there. Late weeknights or early weekday mornings are good.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Apr 21, 2011 20:07:07 GMT -5
Malls based in the greater St. Louis area have sadly been dropping like flies. Northwest Plaza and St. Louis Centre used to have great store selections and food courts befoe they closed, and Crestwood Plaza is just depressing now.
The Galleria is still fairly busy, as is St. Louis Mills which was the mall that helped kill off Northwest- along with the long recession of the last decade.
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Apr 21, 2011 20:54:51 GMT -5
The Mall of Georgia is still packed full of teens hanging out on weekends and weeknights and stuff. That place is always pretty damn crowded, actually. I dunno if that's an exception to the rule, but yeah. i thought malls were still pretty big.
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Post by Orange on Apr 21, 2011 20:57:15 GMT -5
Online shopping happened. What he said. |
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Post by El Hijo De Slapnuts on Apr 21, 2011 20:59:47 GMT -5
Music wise all we have is FYE,and they're decent.
Here in North Carolina our malls have a good amount of teens,mostly in the "trendy" shopping stores.
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Post by noleafclover1980 on Apr 21, 2011 21:56:09 GMT -5
Big box stores, online shopping, I-tunes and home video game systems betters then arcades.
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Post by KStrick on Apr 21, 2011 21:59:13 GMT -5
It's the natural evolution of free market commerce. Originally, it was "Main Street America", which gave way to the malls, which is giving way to brick and mortar stores, and now we're in the digital sales market, Wal-Mart (which I give all the credit in the world to), and online sales (Amazon, et al).
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Post by Hypnotix on Apr 21, 2011 22:18:53 GMT -5
A great site, if you haven't seen it already, is deadmalls.com. They're supposed to be a part of a documentary called Malls R Us, but I haven't found a release date on it. Netflix has it listed for reserves, though.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2011 22:30:22 GMT -5
^ deadmalls.com is excellent.
Also, checkout labelscar.com for even more insight.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Apr 21, 2011 22:35:47 GMT -5
From what I see teens still hang out at malls. Also I question the logic that mall used to be awesome. I'm pretty sure malls always sucked, we were just too young to notice it.
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Post by Lila on Apr 21, 2011 22:47:29 GMT -5
Hollister is big in my town so people will go to the mall just for that store.
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Post by adamclark52 on Apr 21, 2011 23:37:00 GMT -5
people stopped buying shit, and the internet happened.
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Post by biafra on Apr 22, 2011 1:32:59 GMT -5
Hanes Mall, the one near me is pretty big. Still has an FYE, although I remember when it had like three record stores and a Suncoast. That was awesome.
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Post by Disaster Report on Apr 22, 2011 4:46:13 GMT -5
Teens totally still hang out at malls. When I was working at my last job (in a mall, next to a pet shop, to answer another poster's question), all I had were kids ditching school on the weekdays, and wall-to-wall faux goth kids all weekend.
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