When you factor in convenience, savings in time and gasoline driving all over town, and MUCH wider selection of products that could never be stocked on local store shelves, the true breakeven is probably 2 or 3 items. And that’s before tossing in the included music and video content.
I went to a local mall a couple weeks ago because Ethan Allen was having a closing sale. I’d forgotten how awful mainline malls are...the barkers in the aisles hawking junk, the foul smells, the raunchy crowds, the “music” I would never voluntarily listen to, getting besieged by commission-hungry leeches. Yuck.
Prime customer for life!
My daughter loves to go to the mall to shop. I avoid them like the plague. If I can’t get it in my small town or online, I don’t need it.