When was the last time you were in a mall?

[fuzzybuddy]

Years ago, the mall was the 'in" thing. But malls are kind of passe, now. When was the last time, you were in a mall?

Outside of going to the movies, I haven't been shopping in a mall in decades. Our mall has a church in it.

 

[That Lady in PA]

When I took my granddaughter boot shopping in November.
Our mall has a casino in it.

 

[Pinky]

I avoid shopping malls like the plague .. the only one I go to, has my pharmacy in it, where I pick up prescriptions. It's a smaller, one-level mall.

 

[HoneyNut]

I was in a mall a couple months ago, it has a Costco in it, which seems to have kept the whole thing alive.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

The other day. I got a toffee apple. I love those things. Note: actually my husband got it for me. Like @Pinky, I’m not fond of malls.

 

[Don M.]

When we lived in the city, we used to go to a nearby mall a couple of times a month, We moved to a nice rural area 20+ years ago, and the nearest mall is over 50 miles away. We used to go there a couple of times a year....when we had a doctor appt., etc. in that city, but we haven't been there in well over a year. The last few times we went there, it seemed like several of the stores had closed, and what few remained had minimal customers.

 

[jujube]

We have two malls close to me.

One is booming, always busy.

The other one is in some kind of receivership or the like and looks like something in a zombie apocalypse movie.

Almost every store has moved out except the three "anchors" and I have no idea what's keeping them there. None of the escalators work and you have to use the one scary elevator. There are ceiling leaks everywhere.

Every six months or so, there's a big announcement about "big" plans, but nothing happens.

 

[CooCooforCoCoPuffs]

In AZ as we have near perfect 100% 24/7, non-humid weather. Therefore we have more what we call "strip" or large outdoor open air type malls.

Don't remember the last indoor mall I shopped.

 

[gilead]

2012 - Buffet

 

[Michael Z]

The mall by us is more of a teen hangout. There is a Penney’s however that I visit once a year maybe. They also have a surgery center in the back that used to be Sears that I will visit next month.

 

[papa tiger]

It was 1998 and After

Walking a couple of Miles we ate at The Ruby Tuesdays. Lots of people just walked in them.

 

[MarkinPhx]

There was a mall down the street from me. At one point it had 5 major anchor stores and I enjoyed having it close by. The major anchors started to vacate around ten years ago and the mall was torn down two years ago and the land is now being developed for luxury apartments. The first tower opened a couple of months ago. Rent for a 500 sq ft studio starts at $1800/month. I guess it is good for my property value but I do miss the mall.

The closest mall to me now is about a twenty minute drive away but it is a high end mall and caters mainly to the snowbirds who come here during the winter. It can be very busy there this time of year. The last time I went to that one was about a year ago. The trend here is to have outdoor shopping malls which I don't understand because of the summer heat but they seem to be doing well.

 

[papa tiger]

There was a mall down the street from me. At one point it had 5 major anchor stores and I enjoyed having it close by. The major anchors started to vacate around ten years ago and the mall was torn down two years ago and the land is now being developed for luxury apartments. The first tower opened a couple of months ago. Rent for a 500 sq ft studio starts at $1800/month. I guess it is good for my property value but I do miss the mall.

The closest mall to me now is about a twenty minute drive away but it is a high end mall and caters mainly to the snowbirds who come here during the winter. It can be very busy there this time of year. The last time I went to that one was about a year ago. The trend here is to have outdoor shopping malls which I don't understand because of the summer heat but they seem to be doing well.

My experiences in Pheonix are life begins around 10 PM during summer heat days. Days of Ice Tea and a form of AC. I walked out from a
Restaurant, mid afternoon. Somebody says something funny about Blacktop a boil, I laughed and my Sunglasses burn scars in to my cheeks
I can still notice. The Blazer sunroof was open to let the boil heat escape. I took a bit for the Trucks AC to cool the rig some. Lol 117F.

 

[-Oy-]

I remember the first Mall I ever went in. A small 'Shopping Centre' in Morecambe, Lancashire, called 'The Arndale Centre.'

I queued up in the early hours of September 12th 1975 to buy the album 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd on its release day. I was almost 13 I repeated the feat in 1979 for Led Zeppelin's 'In Through The Out Door'.

The last Mall I went in was the same one... yesterday!

 

[DaveA]

I avoid shopping malls like the plague .. the only one I go to, has my pharmacy in it, where I pick up prescriptions. It's a smaller, one-level mall.

Just a question. I've also not been in a mall for quite a few years but not from any concerns about health or safety. Just not that convenient for me.
My question - - - Why the adamant "avoid like the plague" comment? Is there some danger that I'm missing?

In past years I never had any bad experiences at our local mall and back then it was replacing the stores in the local city's cluster of stores along Main St..

 

[hollydolly]

Yesterday, I wwas in one.. ...and in a diferent Mall 2 day ago......Malls are very much still thriving here.,,

 

[Tom52]

The last time I was in an indoor mall was over 2 years ago when we visited the town where we lived until 2014 it is a fairly affluent Chicago suburb, Naperville, Illinois. I was shocked to see that they had torn down one end of the mall where the Sears store used to be. The were converting this area including the parking lot into high end apartments or condos. The remainder of the mall is just a shell of it's former self.

The last outdoor mall I visited was last October, it was the Tanger Mall in Sevierville, Tennessee. It appears to be doing fine. Most all the store fronts were occupied with the parking lot nearly full.

It is very sad to see all of the empty mega malls and strip malls around the country. What a waste of real estate.

 

[Pinky]

Just a question. I've also not been in a mall for quite a few years but not from any concerns about health or safety. Just not that convenient for me.
My question - - - Why the adamant "avoid like the plague" comment? Is there some danger that I'm missing?

In past years I never had any bad experiences at our local mall and back then it was replacing the stores in the local city's cluster of stores along Main St..

@DaveA
They are very crowded, and I don't like crowds. Also, they are so spread out, and, I have bad knees, so, can't walk far.

 

[hollydolly]

Just a question. I've also not been in a mall for quite a few years but not from any concerns about health or safety. Just not that convenient for me.
My question - - - Why the adamant "avoid like the plague" comment? Is there some danger that I'm missing?

In past years I never had any bad experiences at our local mall and back then it was replacing the stores in the local city's cluster of stores along Main St..

Our don't replace the shops on the precinct they work alongside them, so we have both.... what does replace the shops on the high street and precinct are the out of town retail parks like this one nearest to me...

the above retail park also has malls... this....

..and this...

 

[Nathan]

...actually just a couple years ago, went to Dick's Sporting Goods which is attached to the mall, didn't find what I was looking for so I went into the mall to check those stores as well.

 

[Aunt Bea]

It’s been a couple of years.

On my last visit two of the stores didn’t stock the items that I was after and offered to order them for me.

I thanked them and assured them that I could order them myself.

The mega mall has become too mega for me, I still go to a couple of the big box stores and smaller strip malls.

 

[hollydolly]

It’s been a couple of years.

On my last visit two of the stores didn’t stock the items that I was after and offered to order them for me.

I thanked them and assured them that I could order them myself.

The mega mall has become too mega for me, I still go to a couple of the big box stores and smaller strip malls.
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that one looks eactly like ours...it's not called lakeside by any chance is it ?

 

[Aunt Bea]

Destiny USA

It has over a million square feet of retail space a police substation and a free standing hotel.

They do a large business with Canadian tour buses and tourists.

 

[Murrmurr]

Yesterday, I wwas in one.. ...and in a diferent Mall 2 day ago......Malls are very much still thriving here.,,

They're thriving here, too, but only the ones in larger cities.

For a couple decades in the US, a new mall was built in every city that could afford one and had available acreage that wasn't over 10 or 15 miles from residential areas. For a while, they were everywhere and people complained there were too many malls.

Two main reasons for thousands of mall closures across the US are increased rent and taxes on retail property, which caused mall owners to cut corners on maintenance costs, and soon after, online shopping.

But the malls that survived make a lot of money. Several of them are massive. The largest is called Mall of America, which I believe has a passenger train inside. A few malls are large enough to include an entire theme park or two. I think Mall of America has 3 theme parks.

So, where Americans once built too many, we now just go big. Really, really big.

 

[Murrmurr]

It's been about 30yrs since I've shopped in a mall. And it was the only one I ever shopped in; the Sunrise Mall in Calif. My parents lived near it. The parking lot was a teen cruising spot every Friday evening whn I was a kid, but we weren't there to shop ...inside.