Did this a couple of years ago.
Sad how the internet has destroyed rural life.
Sad how the internet has destroyed rural life.
How Amazon has killed the malls. Video I made of my local mall.
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Computer digi regular phone tech killed malls & everyday life/communications.
Why should i leave the house when flip flops water clothes & sluts can come to me?
In all forms & formats. PRE VIRUS.
Why should i leave the house when flip flops water clothes & sluts can come to me?
In all forms & formats. PRE VIRUS.
Bezos took advantage of the future. Just like all these other tech azzwholez.
Thanks for the video; however, that GD background music got old quick.
It appears you walk into Rose's beginning about 2:30 in. I guess JC Penney, a long-time mall anchor store, permanently closes soon. Nice cutaway to Wally World located next door.
Perhaps Amazon could take over the JCP location.
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Are we missing anything from malls? I miss communal spaces where people hang out and see people of different backgrounds.
Malls were never that cool.
Malls were never that cool.
Once you could get drugs away from the mall video game arcades they became useless to everyone but super old people.
Same thing that Walmart did to the mom and pop stores in the 1980s early 1990s. It isn't going away.
I wish we were still riding around in horse buggies.
I might go to the mall once or twice a year. I used to go once or twice a month back in the 80s & 90s.
Years ago I remember being shocked to learn places like middlesboro and somerset had malls.
Outside of specialty/boutique shops, brick and mortar retail is just dead. It is just a natural market force and sign of the times, for better or worse
Outside of specialty/boutique shops, brick and mortar retail is just dead. It is just a natural market force and sign of the times, for better or worse
I don't think brick and mortar is dead. I just think the number of stores will be dramatically reduced and what remains will be far more based on experience with a delivery option.
Wal-Mart and Kroger aren't going anywhere any time soon, especially with clicklist, etc. Smaller retailers are going to have to be different.
Likewise, I think there will always be a market for event shopping like malls but they may end up fusing with amusement parks, sports arenas, etc to keep rental costs down.
Wal-Mart and Kroger aren't going anywhere any time soon, especially with clicklist, etc. Smaller retailers are going to have to be different.
Likewise, I think there will always be a market for event shopping like malls but they may end up fusing with amusement parks, sports arenas, etc to keep rental costs down.
If I ever feel like paying 25% more and actually being among the masses I know where to go
Wal mary in every town killed malls more than Amazon IMO.
I respect Bezos. I loathe Wal Mart.
My $.02
I respect Bezos. I loathe Wal Mart.
My $.02
Amazon is buying up mall properties where the malls went tits-up and converting them into warehouse/distributions centers.
Yeah, honestly my only takeaway from this is being shocked to learn a place like Middlesboro has a mall of any sort.
By all means, take Fayette Mall. Id appreciate the drop in traffic on Nich Rd, especially around the holidays.
In fact, now that the secret is out that malls exist outside of Lexington and Louisville, why the hell do y'all come here for Christmas shopping and clog up our roadways! [laughing]
By all means, take Fayette Mall. Id appreciate the drop in traffic on Nich Rd, especially around the holidays.
In fact, now that the secret is out that malls exist outside of Lexington and Louisville, why the hell do y'all come here for Christmas shopping and clog up our roadways! [laughing]
Malls can also look to the mirror for blame. Many still charge rents that aren't realistic and they get vacancies. Empty shops give shoppers a reason to not visit, which in turn hurts existing tenants. Drop rent to fill it up and everyone benefits.
Some brick and mortar retail stores are thriving. The ones who use social media to their advantage.
As a business owner, adapt or become Woolworth’s, Service Merchandise or Camelot Music.
As a business owner, adapt or become Woolworth’s, Service Merchandise or Camelot Music.
My local mall is in a state of revival. Previous ownership had basically stopped caring and it got snatched up by Liberty University. They’ve invested a ton into it with renovations and recruiting stores, they even brought in an aquarium and recruited away one of the businesses that was in the highest traffic retail area in the city. It’s going to expanding soon as well. Thankfully they’ve pretty much just run it as a business instead of trying to turn it into some abomination like Liberty does with virtually everything else.
I miss the arcade my all had. I’ve never been much of a mall guy because the stores don’t generally appeal to me with how overpriced everything has always been.
what kind of malls are you visiting if Walmart is syphoning off customers from it? Vast majority of stuff that’s available in malls around this state have never and will never be in Walmart
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Arbitraging the USPS's under priced service (free in the case of media) into the largest store ever is not what I consider "natural".
Appreciate the video. I love going to empty malls, its fascinating. They clearly need to become something else. I think a mall could be successful is you filled it with top golf, food trucks, glass blowing, foosball, candle makers, board game bars, and maker spaces. Then the big end cap stores would be home depot, Michaels, and hot topic!
Everyone had the same opportunity to do that. It wasn't their fault another party was stupid enough to continue partaking in a bad deal.
I hate Amazon as much as anyone, probably more. But it's just market forces
Not but they are heavily investing in the online market place and look to make a shift there soon except grocery. Their grocery portion of the business is what attracts so much foot traffic imo. In some places the only new stores they're building are neighborhood grocery.
I do absolutely agree they're viable today. But they're direction is heading virtual too.
Amazon makes buying things so easy. Just this mourning I ordered a sparkplug for my grandsons go kart and NASCAR Heat 5 for his Birthday. Arriving tomorrow.
Pre China Virus, I didn't mind going to Wal Mart. Now, it just seems to be a hassle. My wife orders from WM occasionally, they're not nearly as streamlined as Amazon though. IMHO.
Pre China Virus, I didn't mind going to Wal Mart. Now, it just seems to be a hassle. My wife orders from WM occasionally, they're not nearly as streamlined as Amazon though. IMHO.
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Brick and mortar is completely dead to me, and good riddance. Even Walmart and grocery stores, thanks to online orders with curbside pickup.
Banks are scaling back their lending on retail spaces. I would not want to own a strip center that does not have an anchor tenant (Kroger, etc) in there. Eventually these places will be purchased on the cheap from senior living facilities and build them out for that purpose.
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My point has nothing to do with who did it first, but if it should even be possible.
Here in Chattanooga a lot of the big grocery stores have gone under due to Walmart, most of them have been converted to churches
It should not be possible. But there were two sides to that transaction. Both free to negotiate different terms. The fact one continued to voluntarily agree to a bad deal is part of a free market.
Brick and mortar isn’t dead. Females will always love to go shopping. I like trying on clothes before I buy them. There is a fun experience factor especially if you have children, etc. ****** brick and mortar is dying though. You don’t need JC Penny, Lazarus, Sears, Stone and Thomas, Von Maur, Kaufman’s, Nordstrom, Macy’s, Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, etc etc etc. It’s easy to see half those stores close and go “Retail is dead!” But the reality is half those stores were completely generic and redundant and did nothing to differentiate themselves so there was a natural thinning of the herd. But to think people are just going to sit in their basements in the future and that people don’t like going out and shopping, socializing, eating, letting the kids play, etc is pretty naive and short sighted. I get it you guys (i.e. middle aged males) would think it’s awesome to just sit in your sweatpants all day but we were never the key shopping demographic to begin with.
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You are free to your opinion however especially in smaller towns when Wal-Marts came to town most local small retail business Disappeared and altho the malls didn’t die most in small towns began to struggle.
Do I really need to go thru all the silly examples? Electronics, CD’s, movies etc. You can be obtuse all u want and argue Wal Mart didnt effect small business and malls but I won’t agree.
once malls became babysitters for our youth, we quit going. Jefferson Mall went to ****, Mall St Matthews is 90% **** .
Open Amazon app, within 5 minutes Im done, delivered 2 d a ys later.
Open Amazon app, within 5 minutes Im done, delivered 2 d a ys later.
Some food items I’d rather pick myself than some low paid lackey who likely doesn’t give a **** about their job, like fresh fruit and veggies or meats such as steak. Also miss out on all the clearance deals.
Same for me, especially pants, mostly slacks or dress pants. I’m pretty picky on fit with those. I need to go in store to find a brand and product line that meets my criteria before I’d buy any online. Tops and jackets are normally fine without trying on. Shoes I need to try on because the fit by brand isn’t always exactly the same year by year