Posted on 10/16/2023 6:58:40 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Once-bustling American malls are going bust as shoppers flock to online retailers instead of sprawling, brick-and-mortar locations.
Ten years from now, there will be approximately 150 malls left in the US, Nick Egelanian, president of retail consulting firm SiteWorks, told The Wall Street Journal.
That's down from around 2,500 locations in the 1980s and 700 today, Egelanian said.
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They've been doing that here in TX as well. There is a fairly 'upscale' one near me. The problem is, when it is 105 in the summer, it is not very conductive to strolling from store to store. Whenever I go there, I know what I'm going to buy, and where the store is, and that is where I go, and what I do. I would imagine it is just as bad in MA when it's 10 degrees and covered in ice/snow.
It's a completely different experience. I'd also agree with the earlier poster that the quickest way to destroy a mall is to have bus service.
There is a mall in Frisco that still does good business. Not many ferals living in the area so it's still OK to just stroll through.
I think Theoria probably meant Sam’s and Costco. Add BJ’s.
“I would imagine it is just as bad in MA when it’s 10 degrees and covered in ice/snow.”
Yes, but you just deal with where you live. The malls were successors to all the stores being in the center of town, which is the same thing as walking around outside going from store to store. So really we’ve just come full circle and what people deem as something new is just something we used to do.
I stopped going to malls in the early 90’s when the smemi-nude posters and Victoria’s shops assaulted my kids without notice.
That would stop if people (stores, police, DAs, voters, etc.) cared about enforcing rules anymore. Make a few examples and the problem would go away. Oh well
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Would that have been the Lloyd Center in NE Portland? Back in the 60s, that was THE mall for our Christmas shopping, and at one time it was in the Guinness Book as the largest shopping center in the world. I haven't been there in maybe 30 years, no idea if it still exists.
Putting in a bus stop back in the 80’s ruined my childhood mall.
Sounds like the Galleria in North Dallas? I remember it well.
Let’s also give Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure it’s due...especially Genghis Khan destroying the sporting goods store while Beethoven is rocking out in the piano store on the keys!
I turned 18 in 1985.
Being born in 67 I got to witness a few great decades to be young.
Sucks nowadays...I feel for your daughter.
There is only one race responsible for this.
And a McDonalds
The constant use of “upscale” to describe a shopping location was foolish.
Populations are “upscale”. Stores are just places. There was story about some poor guy in NJ shot in the head carrying Christmas presents out of an “upscale mall” close to the hood.
Same with our local mall, plus the company that owns it still thinks it’s 1981 and everyone is clamoring for high rent in their mall. It was built in 1982, and is showing it’s age with very few stores left. We have a Belk’s which has little products on display. A Roses, think glorified dollar store and the theater. The parking lot is full of potholes and scraggly weeds and trees and the internal and external areas of the building is showing lots of damage.
The city is about to start issuing zoning violations to the owners because they refuse to do any upkeep and then condemnation of the property. It sits in a prime real estate area on the main road. It’s days are numbered.
Lol...
I get the online sales stuff. But I’m wondering if the incredibly varied tastes of people now for really specialized items has made it tough for almost any store to keep the kind of inventory needed.
Malls were great in Florida in summer... what happened was malls turned into gang and thug hangouts. People who wanted /to shop - and stores that didn’t want to be robbed deserted,
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