It doesn’t seem to be a good business practice to cause people to want to either avoid your mall altogether or interfere with the businesses within the mall from being able to sell their wares because the mall took all the money first.
“The mall’s management company points out that more “traditional Santa visits” (where Santa’s lap is available to sit on free of charge) can be had at one of its other properties, the Moorestown Mall.
The fancy set-up in Cherry Hill, said to be one of just a dozen in the country, features a 15-to-20 minute stay at the “North Pole” set up in the mall atrium.
Children take simulated sleigh ride, listen to a holiday concert performed by elves and design a gingerbread house on an iPad.”