Eventually nobody will own cars. For longer distance travel, people will punch up an app and a driverless vehicles will pull up and swoosh them away.
It's just the way it is going to be. There is nothing us old codgers can do about it.
What you said is exactly right. The days of the single story mall set way back from the road are definitely gone around here. Everything new is high-density, 5-10 stories mixed use with lots of underground parking.
To us old codgers, it’s just not natural to go to the grocery store, park underground, and walk up to the store. That’s just not right.
“The traditional shopping center is for old people and is rapidly dying out.”
I’ll be 64 in a couple of months. This ‘old’ person shops online for almost everything. I’ve lived in my current locale for maybe 11 years and have been to our mall maybe 10 times.
Amazon, Walmart, Thrive, food storage sites, women’s clothing & shoe sites all deliver right to my door. When the weather is bad here and driving is tough, the post office still drops off my box o’stuff. I love it.
A few weeks ago I had to return a blouse I’d ordered online to Penney’s. I thought I’d get out of the house and return it in person instead of mailing it back. Well, I walked all over the store looking for the catalog desk. No signage, no nothing.
I finally asked a sales clerk and was told I could make a return at any desk. Wonderful. When were they going to let the customer know? (never was directed to the catalog desk, maybe that’s gone)
The salesperson was nice enough (it is the Midwest, after all), but it just reinforced online shopping to me, even if every now and then you have to mail something back.
It's just the way it is going to be. There is nothing us old codgers can do about it.
I just smile. We both know a lot of examples about the inevitable that never came.
Suburban Liberal Adult Very Entitled otherwise known as useful idiots.