"We Are Extremely Over-Retailed" Picturing The Death Of America's Malls

Zero Hedge ^ | 01/05/2015 | Tyler Durden

[radiohead]

<Malls have been killed by amazon prime. Why waste time when the item can be delivered to your door in 2 days?

No kidding. I’ve been here in my Iowa college town for almost 8 years. I’ve probably been in the mall 10 times, and that’s twice for mall-walking.

Though we have all the regular stores, they are smaller. Too often the selection just isn’t worth leaving the house for. I’m better off shopping on the store’s website, walmart.com, or amazon. I just got some new bookcases and a coffee table delivered. I got what I wanted rather than settling for whatever was in the store.

I do hate to see the malls go, tho. I picture the happy families shopping, teens with their first jobs, etc. There’s a lot of American social life that can be studied in a mall.

[Autonomous User]

“One just went through the windshield of a parked car! This is terrible! Everyone’s running around pushing each other. Oh my goodness! Oh, the humanity! People are running about. The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! “

[Autonomous User]

Turkey friendly access too?

As God is my witness......

[Mercat]

Most of it is. Sears just bailed and of course Macy’s.

[SamAdams76]

there was a shopping mall,
now it's all covered with flowers.

[SamAdams76]

I used to like shopping malls back in the early 1980s. Used to go to the Radio Shack, then to the Tape Store and maybe a paperback bookstore. Then I'd go hang out at the Orange Julius and watch the Pat Benatar look-a-likes stroll by.