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By: for no real reason | tre's blog

for no real reason | tre's blog — Sat, 17 May 2008 22:18:08 +0000

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By: peter

peter — Thu, 15 May 2008 04:08:25 +0000

great,The shopping mall has been one of the US’s most succesful export products

By: Darrel Jones

Darrel Jones — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:31:25 +0000

Re #3: There’s a reason you don’t often see Wall-Marts in malls: In effect they ARE the malls.

If you live in small-town America, especially in the South, chances are Wall-Mart is the only place in town you can shop.

By: nwlimited

nwlimited — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:20:54 +0000

This is interesting, fun and a bit disturbing.

By: lichanos

lichanos — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:00:51 +0000

Yes, El Santo, corrrect!

Consumer culture is driven by style and fashion. A mall that seems dowdy will go under. Flashier malls will take their places. No suprise that some malls are failing then.

By: El Santo

El Santo — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:24:34 +0000

I don’t think malls are going away. However, we Americans love new things, and Malls built in the 60’s and 70’s just don’t cut it. Here in the Seattle area, two malls have recently revitalized their cache by adding a nifty outdoor area, so the place isn’t so claustrophobic. The mall’s that don’t, like Everett Mall, are convenient but feel cold and out-of-date.

By: lichanos

lichanos — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:01:08 +0000

I am dubious regarding the death of the American shopping mall. Certainly, the geography of its distribution may be changing. Booms always plant assets where they can’t be sustained long-term.

Is it a bust for malls nationwide? Well, I live near Paramus, NJ, with, I have been told, the greatest concentration of retail floor space in the country, and the malls are still growing like alien tumors!

By: lordhutton

lordhutton — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:18:30 +0000

Re Huntingdon’s comment: try finding an exit sign as you walk from the Pallasades to the Bullring in Birmingham. Nothing

By: kevmoore

kevmoore — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:59:37 +0000

Surely the demise of the shopping mall can be traced back to at least 1980, when John Landis was practically given one to destroy using the very effective team of jake and elwood, and a few hundred police cars. If they were past their sell-by date then, its small wonder they’re almost defunct in the 21st century!

By: El Santo

El Santo — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:34:46 +0000

Thanks for the deadmalls link. I was up all last night looking at the pictures of the nearly abandoned malls. To me, there’s nothing creepier than a mall where only one or two stores are left. There are long corridors of emptiness where your old memories used to reside, and once in a while you might encounter a kiosk rented by a skeezy business where pushy proprietors hassle you, insisting you visit their booth.