I went to a mall recently for the first time in I don’t even know how many years because I like that the baggy pants trend from the '90s has come back and I wanted some.
I was shocked at how crowded it was, even on a weekday afternoon. Apparently that particular mall is very much not dying. Also, it had this exact scene in it.
All the smaller malls died/are dying. The upscale like, destination malls in larger cities are surviving. Maybe one or two per larger city.
The smaller malls are thriving in Europe, when they are situated downtown close to public transit hubs where there is a ton of pedestrians anyway, instead of far away from everything like in the US
Wanted to say, I have two smaller ones and a medium mall, all within a 5 minute walk, all of them busy. But all of them also include supermarkets, the Aldi I always go to is in one. Its super convenient, when I come from work by train, I walk 1 minute from the station through the mall to the supermarket, pick up some stuff, exit on the other side of the mall and walk like 3 minutes home.
Our Aldis here are either stand-alone or adjacent to a stripmall.
I walked through a mall this weekend like a high school student and it was actually fun.
they had a fuck load of deals since they’re happy you were there
JC Thinny
They still have these at the movie theater near me lol
Do not trust them. They poke you in the asshole.
Unless you’re into that, in which case go check em out.
public humiliation chair lol
My local Penny’s went out of business what feels like a decade ago. I didn’t realize the brand was still alive.
I love it there.
Out of pure curiosity one time, I used one of those chairs. My god did it hurt, I got neck pain for a week
Wish there was a mall still near by me. I really love the vibes of a mall with the echoey music. I’d probably go on a trip to Minneapolis just to vibe at mall of America lmao.
I have at least three near me. I intend to go next month, to get a new iPhone. So yeah, every 2-5 years; I’m not their number one customer
I have one near me. I took my kid there because he was really curious about what it’s like inside malls. That was some depressing shit. Any mid-2000s nostalgia was eclipse by the zombie apocalypse feel of the place.
That is how I felt at my local mall a few years ago during Christmas season… it was soooo blighted. The floors were not polished, there was not the atmosphere one who grew up in mall culture from the 80s during Christmas that would be accustomed to… I mean, half the doors didn’t work automatically like they used to and half the shops were empty.
When I last went Christmas shopping at a mall, it really wasn’t even worth going. It was sad, as you said but I also didn’t find anything relevant at a price I would pay. It was all sad and pointless
It’s interesting in an unfortunate way that my kid was lamenting having no place to hang out with his buddies. Malls used to attract teens, to the point where their previous hangouts are gone. Now there’s nothing
MOA is fantastic and still very populated.
Me and the fam go there a few times a month just to walk and have lunch. Great place for summer when it’s too hot or raining out, great for winter when it’s too cold out.
Like dead malls? Like vaporwave?
Retail Archaeology is a great YouTube channel about dying stores
Malls used to be great for that. It was where boutiques went to die
That’s 100% the 5th Avenue Mall in Anchorage, AK.
I can smell this photo. Quite nostalgic.
Those chairs remind me of the ones from the animated movie WALL-E, which is concerning for our futures 😒
