Please stop buying stuff off the Internet.
Or this could happen to your local mall...
Oh no, where will the 13 year olds hang out?
>>71117988
Good.
who gives a shit about malls ?
small family owned shops i agree
What the hell is that guy doing, graffiti? Just nail an airplane into it.
>>71117988
Sears deserves to go out of business. The company is ran by retards.
Buying what online, retard?
I only buy stuff online when I can't find it in the local stores.
Why would someone order something when they could just to the local store?
>>71118202
This. They fucked up when they stock shit u don't need.
>malls were originally suppose to be a way to make the community get closer together and help out small businesses by making them more apparent
>kike mall owners come in and destroy most malls making retarded fuck decisions and hiking the rent up so much that stores need to charge shit like $80 for a hat or $60 for a cheap poster
>kikes attract more kikes and soon that $80 hat becomes a $110 hat
>nobody goes, online is cheaper and more convenient
>BUT MUH SMALL BUSINESS BOOHOO HOO OY VEYYY
>not buying Chink shit straight from the source
>>71117988
Uhh i'll stick to buying my flesh lights online tyvm
Personally I pretty much have to shop online unless all I want is food. I live in a very rural area of the valleys, we don't have electronics shops and such and driving to a city is ridiculous when even there i'll still have less choice and far higher costs.
Give me one good reason to go to the mall.
>>71118280
What website?
>>71117988
>implying this doesn't coincide with the slow death of the middle class
>implying it isn't a symptom of a bigger problem
>>71118090
kek
I haven't been to my local mall in well over a decade and it just underwent a massive expansion.
>>71117988
Malls where a shitty concept from the start.
They were supposed to be the equivalent of a town center with shops. Instead it just became shops and more shops.
Tear 'em down. Build condos. More cost effective.
K-Mart was G
>>71118424
Aliexpress, Bangood, CNdirect, dealextreme ....
>>71118202
>>71118259
>ITT people upset that they can't get same day shipping in their area so they rage on fortune
>>71118393
They don't sell 20kg kettlebells in the nearest food stores here that's the only reason I've been to one for the last 6 months.
Teenagers skipping school can go fuck themselves for all I care.
is electronics boutique still around? Buying diablo II at an EB at the mall was the last time I was in one i think.
>>71118633
No lie, though. My fondest memories of young adulthood are in the Riverwalk Mall in San Antonio, which -is- more like a town center.
I think we're losing something by losing malls. Like, in America, we don't really have very many nice public spaces meant for hanging around. So the idea of a space engineered to be comfortable, attractive, and entertaining to hang around, fuelled by the consumerism happening around it is something we're losing.
Online shopping is reaching a point where businesses just expect us to sit at home and get shit delivered to us and never interact with others.
Why would it matter to me if malls go out of business?
Or family-owned small businesses?
Why are they inherently better than Amazon?
>>71118537
I guess you dont like watching at underage girlie there slut pants you weirdo.
>>71118825
Amazon is a cheating company that spikes prices on products.
Do you really want to be sharked that bad?
>>71118082
>small family owned shops
malls killed them all
>>71117988
Nothing wrong with that, most physical shops are obsolete. Big online stores are the future.
>>71117988
Malls should be used for above-ground nuclear tests.
>>71118855
How are they 'cheating'?
OH NO, NOT MY LOCAL MALL!
Now I'll have to drive FIVE WHOLE MINUTES down the road to the other Mall!
Won't somebody please think of the children?!?!?!
>>71118424
chinesegulaggoods.com
>>71118855
amazon barely has margins on anything that isn't AWS
>>71118971
Their tax planning is aggressive to the point of being sort of hilarious I hear.
>>71118951
nah, malls are OK if you have other places to meet with people, etc
if your only choice is the mall, job, house and church - that would suck
>>71119033
Yes. That's why we need to put in more speed bumps and red light cameras so it will take you 15 minutes to think of the children.
>>71119033
BUY LOCAL
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>71118702
>Aliexpress, Bangood, CNdirect, dealextreme
OMG is that's who's behind all those bad ebay-looking ass ripoffs?
>>71117988
good, fuck the local mall. its overrun with blacks, literal fights and shit go on every day
Bitch, FUCK SEARS
>>71119070
There are a bunch of US states where they're not allowed to work. Including like, talking on the work chat, or checking email.
>>71118971
Amazon increases the price of products if you sign up for Amazon Prime(their subscription service for free shipping), thus completely negating the idea of paying an annual fee for free shipping.
Then they got caught putting pressure on third-party sellers who set their own prices to do the same.
I couldn't care less if that happens to my local mall.
I doubt it will though, since shipping costs a butt load for large items.
Local malls have the benefit of no shipping charges.
>>71117988
GOOD
O
O
D
What about if the local malls are full of niggers and beaners?
>>71119070
Why should they pay taxes?
Inb4 muh roads
>>71117988
switch the internet off now!
malls are dying and you are doing nattin!
>>71119070
Do you even know what you're saying? Or do you just type random shit
>>71119162
How does that constitute 'cheating'?
I don't own any business my money or my loyalty.
If they die, they die.
>>71119162
This is not true at all... check multiple amazon price tracking websites and you'll find all results are the same. If I check a price on my work computer (never logged in and no association could be made) I can open up amazon prime on my mobile and order the same item for the same price... where do you get this bullshit you're spewing? Do you just make it up as you go?
>>71119162
I think this is just a UI thing?
Like if one seller has "Uiharu Kazari Alter To Aru Kagaku no Railgun (PVC Figure) [JAPAN]" for $45 + $5 shipping, but it's also available through Prime for $48 + $0 shipping, it will default you to the Prime one if you have Prime, since $48 is less than $50.
>>71117988
I thought it was Wal-Mart and superstores like it that killed malls.
That's what happened to most of our malls where I live, anyway
>>71119348
http://www.ibtimes.com/amazon-cheating-prime-customers-lawsuit-accuses-online-retailer-inflating-costs-cover-free-shipping
>>71119348
Did you not watch the Amazon Prime threads on /g/ where they managed to inflate the price of granny panties by simply browsing it repeatedly?
I love amazon so much though.
>>71119638
^^^
Amazon is love, Amazon is life.
>>71118202
i bought a bicycle online for ~$500
that same exact bike was at the local sporting goods store for ~$900
i sat on it in the store, liked it, googled it and saw it was $400 less on amazing. lol'd, left the store and bought it on my way walking to my car
>>71119762
And this is why we need illegal immigrants.
Americans aren't willing to pay extra money for the sake of giving money back to American people, not even people in the town they live in.
>>71119754
Amazon is the best thing to happen to our generation.
people used to defend small businesses against malls now looks like they are defending malls against the Chinese guy on ebay/alibaba
This is capitalism. People charged high amounts of money for a product you needed and didnt want to put in the effort to go far away to find it. So you were forced to pay the higher price.
Now that you can get your goods online for much less than instore and you dont need to leave the house why should you owe these guys your money. They overcharged and they suffer for it.
>>71119534
Wow look a link about an accusation. You're lucky I don't accuse you of murder or you'd go straight to jail.
That's not how it works faggot
>>71119905
maybe if it was $80-100 more expensive id buy it at a local bike shop.
400?
nah.
>>71119905
I'm with that guy. Fuck paying $400 more for that.
DEAD SHOPPING MALLS RISE
LIKE MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS
>>71119905
Why would you pay for something at a higher price in stores when you could just order it from the source lol.
>>71117988
I won't miss it at all
last time I was downtown I was trying to buy a new headset for my computer. Everything was marked up at least 40% from the amazon prices and the selection was extremely limited. When I finally picked a headset, which wasn't cheap, or the style I wanted, I take them home and find the microphone doesn't work.
So TL;DR I fucking ordered a pair off amazon that fit the way I want, match my computer's color, and have great sound, all for cheaper than the ones I drove around town to buy.
If people want me to go to malls, make there a reason to go there.
>>71120050
Just because an algorithm does it behind the scenes doesn't mean it's not a bait-and-switch.
Amazon is committing fraud, using the secrecy of their algorithm as a shield.
Malls are cancer.
My beer ingredients already arrived, so I guess I'll have to go order something else off the internet.
>>71120123
Only reason is it is for old people, teenagers to creep on other teenagers or people who don't want to wait a couple days for something, so they pay more for it.
>>71118032
fpbp
>>71120123
I remember when amazon had those amazing sennheiser headphones for a $100 compared to their $400 price tag. That was a good day.
>>71120142
I guess that's why all the prices I find on amazon are much lower than local stores including same day shipping, no hassle single click ordering, consistently high quality products, and the easiest return system in the fucking world.
WHAT A FUCKING SCAM.
>>71119099
>target opens in canada
>check it out
>prices higher than walmart
>less stuff
zellers closes down and they came in here and became a worse zellers
>>71120142
What are you talking about?
It goes like this:
Item x is sold at the dingle berry store for $20 + $5 shipping.
Item x is sold by Amazon at $22 + $5 shipping.
If you have prime, shipping from Amazon and participating sellers is free.
Dingle berry doesn't participate in so the $22 + $0 is displayed because it's cheaper overall.
>>71119905
Also the problem is people decided to outsource to China, you reap what you see and malls won't exist soon enough.
>>71120310
I worked at Target. Man that was such a massive show show, had a good time though in those last few months.
>>71117988
>no more malls
A man can dream anon.
>>71120142
these
>>71120336
>>71120284
Not to mention the fact that I can get hundreds of songs and movies FREE. I would've spent at least 300 dollars on music and movies by now if I was using itunes or HULU
>>71120803
Do they even have malls in SA? Seems like they'd probably become real life war containment coffins.
Malls are degenerate post 2000 stuff. It will be good if they go. One of many things that killed the 90s
>>71117988
Good. I hate malls. Waste of real estate space. Waste of land. They only serve as a place for urban youth to shoplift and break in to cars.
>>71120927
We've got a couple and they're actually not that bad desu. They just get very crowded on weekends and such.
Pic related is one that's just been renovated near me.
But every time I go into a store they never have what I need and I have to order it online.
>>71117988
>Please stop buying stuff off the Internet.
Governments need to stop taxing brick and mortars, and imposing heft minimum wages and other regulations.
>>71121253
>But every time I go into a store they never have what I need and I have to order it online.
sorry that most stores don't stock XXXL anime shirts
>>71118896
One problem: how do you see the product first?
>>71121371
You should be, it's not a consumer job to assess the market and stock the most appropriate goods.
murkans are fat as hell, why wouldn't you stock plus sizes?
>Or is 3XL too small?
>>71121468
You don't. You just see how many upvotes it got.
>>71121810
And just follow the crowds. Not a good option.
Minorities ruined malls
>>71122031
Crowds? More like bots.
>>71117988
So fucking what, more land for trees.
>>71117988
How will niggers who can't afford internet get to stink up a large building now?!
>>71122192
Just watch niggers chimp because they can't steal from an online store.
>>71117988
Oh no! Where will nigger flashmobs attack people then?
Malls are liberal hellholes.
Free yourselves.
>go to mall
>4 teenage clothing stores that smell terrible
>an FYE full of meme shirts and 60 dollar 4 gb sony memory sticks
>food court is decent with the chink food
>niggers always nogging at food court
>american cookie being flooded with hamplanets buying a cookie pizza
>>71118424
samuraisamuraisamuraisamurai
buyerrr
Good.
>>71117988
Fuck malls, fuck them for making local butchers and bakers go out of business.
>>71119162
That's not true I havd prime and when I check the prices without prime it almost always comes out to more.
I remember here when the owner of Harvey Norman was complaining about how nobody is buying from him and how unAustralian it was to not buy from him despite how ridiculous they over charge.
>>71118424
aliexpress
also malls will be replaced by places like this
>>71118202
>leaving your house
Fuck the mall. I want my local village shops back.
>>71123013
Sooo strip malls?
>>71117988
I worked at Sears.
They fucking deserved it for how astoundingly incompetent the company is. Ever seen a president/CEO spend 10 million dollars on a facebook lite that can only be accessed in store, all because he wanted to work from home yet somehow know what his employees thought (and then argue with them online and get shitposted)?
>>71117988
Who pays you to make these threads. Is your life this fucking boring. Jesus guy
>>71117988
I always go to my local grocery store over the Wal-Mart at the top of the hill. I do need to support my local mall a bit more.
I pay extra to do it, no doubt about it. But I live in a small community and I feel like it is worth it. Fuck the kikes.
>>71123081
strip malls without the parking lots
>tfw mods do it for free and delete your posts because they're triggered
>>71123013
lolis?
I for one support this change
>>71122891
This.
>>71123139
No parking lots? Where the fuck are you supposed to park? The entire reason I have to use big outlet stores and strip malls is because there's nowhere to park at the local villiage shop.
>>71117988
funny you say that my local mall just doubled in size
and it was already yuge
>>71123190
there's a giant parking area but then you walk over to it
>>71117988
There is no reason to tear the building down
MY GOD
>>71123226
Oh good. That's so much better than parking in a parking lot and walking across it. Or finally find a side street with a space and walking all the way back to the store.
>>71117988
MALLS BTFO
>>71123340
It might have had asbestos and an extra insurance policy.
>>71123159
>using loli for 3D
stop
>>71123013
And that's a fantastic option when the weather is really nice.
Most malls that fail to the point of being abandoned and/or demolished do so because the area demographic starts centering on the lowest common denominator. Another mall, in a less urbanized area springs up, and the cycle repeats every 10-20 years. I hate "outdoor malls" because they're not climate controlled, have atrocious layouts and parking arrangements, and don't offer the "walk by and take a look" feature of the indoor mall (including the walkway kiosks). But I hate more going to a large mall on a weekend and feeling like you're likely to see a shooting at any moment.
>>71123013
Not in cold weather. We have a few of these near me, they are in the very wealthy areas, and are completely dead anytime it's under 50*, and that's 6 months out of the year. However the theaters with recliners and beer are great!
>>71123190
>No parking lots?
>Where the fuck are you supposed to park?
+1 buddy
>>71123226
When I was a kid in the Soviet Union, we had to walk from our village 2 km through the mud to the bus stop and then wait for an hour till damn bus will come. It was almost as empty road, as you could see in Nevada desert, with lonely trucks once in a while passing through. Except that it was in the middle of USSR and there were many villages like this around and a city nearby.
Oh yeah, almost forgot - in a village we had one local store (I say - one, cause there were no other stores whatsoever) and there we could buy bread, tea, soviet cigarettes without filter and the rest of the shelves demonstrated lines after lines of one single item, like resin boots or bucket.
>>71123622
You still likely to see a shooting on a street.
>>71117988
The internet has exactly what I want, stores have a shitty selection.
>>71119070
And yet IKEA is somehow a Non-Profit.
>>71118090
just look up to my friend here
>>71117988
I don't trust online shopping and all my stores near me have everything I need at cheap prices.
>>71117988
"The Mall" is probably going to be the shortest lived type of building in the history of mankind.
Started in the 60's slowly catches on, then explodes into growth during the 80's and 90's then the internet. No new malls made, existing ones just waiting to become unprofitable enough whereby they are sold, or torn down.
malls destroyed the small comfy mom and pop store so I'll say they are getting their just deserts
>>71120310
Target is based in the US. Sure you might pay a fee cents more for items than Walmart, but it's nice and clean. Walmarts in the US are full of degenerate niggers, fat people, poor people. They throw all the shit on the floor, never put anything back, lines are ridiculously long, employees borderline retarded.
>>71124047
Jesus, you fucking isolationist xenophobe racist backward redneck gun-toting antisemite. You're the reason the UK is going down the shitter.
>>71124056
Funny enough, they still build malls in Russia and main retailers demand to limit, tax or even ban internet trade.
>>71117988
Once Walmart left my mall this is almost certainly it's future. The only people you really see there are Blacks and Hispanics now.
>>71124148
He is in UK, he can't into gun-toting.
the internet has had some role (and it's likely a large one) in the demise of the american mall, but mroeover, malls are no longer nice places to spend time.
I live in MKE, if that gives any clue about what it's like.
>>71124214
>Russia and main retailers demand to limit, tax or even ban internet trade.
Oh Russia, this part of the reason why you couldn't keep up in the Cold War. You need to change your culture to let dying industries die.
This is one of the reasons Japan's economy has been sucky too.
>>71124139
>the US is full of degenerate niggers, fat people, poor people
i agree
Please stop buying horseless carriages.
Or this could happen to your local wagon manufacturer...
>>71122574
>american cookie being flooded with hamplanets buying a cookie pizza
Par for the course. American Cookie is fucking disgusting.
>>71124139
In that case Target certainly didn't do their market research. Canadian Walmarts are usually 100% acceptable. There is always some immigrant family feeding letting their children eat straight out of the produce section and some ornery old people looking to get pissed at something, but nothing so egregious that made people flock in droves to target
They also really should have had their supply chain worked out before the opened up. You only make one first impression, and nobody likes seeing empty shelves and two cashiers
>my spending habits are killing off the normie childrens' natural habitat
nothing makes me happier than to see a shopping mall being closed down because i know some idiot invested millions of yuro's and lost everything with stupid managment, shitty marketing and extremely high rent prices.
>>71119905
>And this is why we need illegal immigrants.
>somehow illegal immigrants will have enough money and also be stupid enough to buy the bike in the store when it's cheaper online
come one come all
let's laugh at this retard
>>71124826
How do you know he didn't just declare bankruptcy and shovel the costs over on to the government?
>>71117988
Malls are degenerate anyway. Filled with screaming nog children, mexicunts, and white niggers.
>>71122590
What're you fuckin' gay?
>>71119130
Idk y it stil in biznes tb h
>>71119188
Buy a nigger/hire a beaner?
>>71118273
This. I can't afford shit at the mall. However, I can't buy clothes online because I need to try them on first. I primarily shop at thrift stores and discount department stores. Fuck the mall, expensive garbage. That said, I used to hang out at the mall all the time as a teenager. Now what will kids do, just be on their phones?
>perfectly good building
>don't think of allowing legit small businesses to move in and set up shop as part of, say, a philanthropic donation to the local govt
>or turning it into offices, or a school, or internet cafes, or anything
>just demolish it
Fucking waste. Fuck zoning laws. I wish we could repurpose buildings instead of demolishing them.
>>71118675
I bought stock in K-Mart the day before they went bankrupt back in 2002 or so
My life is regret
galleria mall in houston still kills it
however there's literally like 20% white people when i walk through
mostly rich hip hop black people and muslims
>>71120101
>tfw malls get more interesting when they have no more stores
>>71118800
Bruh I was at the riverwalk mall last month and it was fucking slam packed. Remember in '98 when it was somewhat populated with 70% whites and 30% beaners? Now it's 95% beaners and ALWAYS fucking slammed. I was shocked to see it so active. If there's one thing saving malls in Texas, it's the beaners.
I buy a lot of firearms, and I used to have the "support your local ma+pa shop" mentality...
But no local store (chain or locally owned) can match the prices I find online, and I avoid sales tax by buying out of state. Saved over $2000 in sales tax last year by doing that.
I do buy clothing in person though- but I only shop clearance racks. Why pay 500% more for something that does the same damn thing?
>>71125300
they tried re-purposing an old mall in my hometown. A non-profit bought the building and turned most of the space into a youth center. despite the non-profit tax incentives, rental revenue, and state/federal grants, it failed and the whole thing was razed.
You cna't simply do other things with buildings of that size. They are expensive hulks that rquire extensive maintenance just to keep within code.
>>71125628
The majority of America will never willingly go to a place that doesn't have AC pumping cold air into every nook and cranny of their fat folds.
>>71117988
I will buy local when they aren't trying to sell me something +50% the price I can get it from the internet, including shipping and better warranty
>>71125628
And then someone would propose to attach glass cupola to protect them plebs from the rain...
>>71117988
Already is happening to mine. Jcp closed, there are a ton of vacant spots, they're just covering it with a tarp like thing that has the picture of a shop or yoga studio on it. My mall is becoming North Korea.
>>71126027
a mall near my old job lost 2/4 of their anchor stores in a year. There are more employees than customers in that place now. oddly enough some satellite restaurants that sprung up in the parking lot seem to be doing well.
>>71125622
Fellow firearms shopper, I feel the same way, I used to give the shop a chance and show then X ad for a gun, they never even budged. I still enjoy the shop, and will out things on consignment, buy used, and get transfers done($15 each), but I rarely look at new guns. I will let the fuds spend that money and "increase" the value of my collection
>>71117988
>Or this could happen to your local mall...
god, i hope that happens to every mall. overpriced shit that no one needs
>>71117988
Nope.
Department stores can get fucked with their trash customer service and their undeserved $15 an hour pittance they never earned. I'd rather deal with outsourced employees from pakistan and my own computer than some homegrown loser that needs an attitude adjustment
>>71117988
Any decent malls in my state are full of Somalians. I also don't have to deal with braindead college girls fucking anything and everything up on the job.
>>71126027
Several years ago I've read American novel where part of the story was about decline of local shops (small, traditional stores) due to rising Walmart monopoly. Part of the plot was about father of main character, who lost his business eventually and committed suicide (as a normal American he had a gun).
That was, in somewhat exaggerated manner, of course, reflection of author's experience.
So, we see justice.
Fuck that OP. I'd have everything delivered if I could. I've already switched to buying most of my groceries online with Prime Pantry. I only go to the store now for produce and meat. The rest is delivered to my door. Once we have higher quality body scanners, I'll order all of my clothes online too since automated factories will be able to custom tailor clothes to fit my body rather than mass produced junk in sizes determined by an Army study in the 1930s. Online shopping isn't a complete replacement for physical stores... yet. Probably always will be a few items that people will want to buy in person but for the most part, being able to have everything delivered is a huge time saver, not to mention saving on gas and generally lower prices.
I don't have a local mall.
>>71117988
My local mall don't sell chinese cartoons but gather normalfags so they can go fuck themselves.
>>71126447
this desu senpai(ily)
>>71126447
They call anime "Chinese cartoons" in Poland too?
>>71118273
LOL
The internet was going to kill the malls regardless of rent.
>>71126347
>I only go to the store now for produce and meat. The rest is delivered to my door
Why not just buy the other things while youre buying the meats and veggies? A can of beans delivered to your door but purchased online can't be cheaper than the brick and mortar store.
The only malls that can survive are, unsurprisingly, ones with lots of pedestrian traffic in urban areas. Ones out in suburbs are straight up becoming blight because their core demographic is both aging and going online.
>>71126336
It wasn't so much "decline" as it was falling out of style. From 1950 to about 2008, people moved out to suburbs where there are only chain stores next to freeways and artery roads. Developers don't give a shit about non-chain stores. But they aren't gone, they were always a thing inside cities.
>>71118103
It wasn't always.
>Kmart was failing
>They liquidated several hundred million by mass selling properties
>Suddenly they had a ton of liquid capital
>"lets buy a successful business that'll be easy to run"
>buy sears
>Run it into the ground for short term profit
>Sell off the exclusive rights to craftsman tools and other great brands unique to sears
>"Sears was had a bad business model"
>Start to liquidate assets again.
Who will be the next target on Kmarts ride I
Further down the gutter
![post-12417-0-33408800-1460027506[2].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/jWE7YL9.jpg "post-12417-0-33408800-1460027506[2].jpg")
>>71126513
Once upon a time I used to watch anime. Then I grew up.
>>71126336
Nobody cares about Mom and Pop stores
>>71117988
Good. Tear all those ugly fuckers down. Inefficient wastes of space.
>>71117988
>implying internet shopping has anything to do with the death of malls
If internet shopping is the cause of malls dying, then regular ordinary stores would be dying too.
>>71118633
>build condos
Xin Wong pls go
>>71125300
>fuck zoning laws
oh my, libertarians are truly fucking retarded
>>71118800
When I was training at Ft. Sam Houston I would go every weekend. Good times.
>>71123690
These places are great in the snow though, it's comfy as fuck, what pussy state do you live in?
>>71118103
They just didn't want to change. They didn't care at all about the Internet (which is odd given their immensely successful catalog business) and they stopped selling videogames, toys and guns so children and young adults stopped coming in. They basically became a JCP knockoff, with their tools/garage market being taken by Home Depot. Lowe's, Ace etc.
>>71126672
Nobody, since their current CEO is a Jew that is knowingly destroying the company. He's selling Sears' and Kmart's biggest asset, their real estate, to another one of his companies which will profit off rents. Eventually all the stores close down, properties are sold and he makes a massive profit.
>>71117988
I fucking love shopping malls.
>>71124056
The "Internet cafe" takes tha tittle
>>71117988
http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/dick-s-field-stream-to-take-sears-spot-at-viewmont-mall-1.2029026
tfw OP's scenario is literally happening here
>>71126749
more often than not zoning laws are an impediment on development, used by local homeowners to increase the values of their homes by constricting supply of housing
Look at California, homeowners in most cities in the bay area and LA stop all development so that their houses are worth more. In turn, rents shoot up. Which is double good for them since they are then allowed to price gouge renters. Meanwhile income taxes are raised since property taxes cannot be.
In Chicago, a mall was torn down and replaced with a set of strip malls on the same property - it's not that people don't shop IRL, it's that the youths congregate.
>>71127096
And by youths, you mean undesirables.
>>71120310
Target got fucked on their supply chain in Canada. I can't remember the exact reason but in my business class we spent a whole day talking about their Canadian expansion as a sort of "do the exact opposite of everything these people did" example.
>>71127143
>a "patrician" talking about "undesirables"
>on /pol/
>>71118202
Because Americans are fat and lazy and would buy anything online, no matter how close the shop is.
I buy all my shit online, except food.
It costs me less to buy shit online because I can usually get deals, or even free shipping, which is way cheaper than paying fo gas to drive to a store that might not even have what I want.
>>71127283
Should he say "infractions"?
>>71123122
>I worked at Sears.
>They fucking deserved it for how astoundingly incompetent the company is. Ever seen a president/CEO spend 10 million dollars on a facebook lite that can only be accessed in store, all because he wanted to work from home yet somehow know what his employees thought (and then argue with them online and get shitposted)?
mfw I worked at sears and know exactly what you are talking about.
That company needs to burn
>>71127314
As it was explained - buying online could be cheaper.
>>71127349
isnt' sears owned and operated by an investment group now?
>>71118675
I used to laugh that their answer to Super Walmart was BigK.
If they really wanted to compete with "Super", they should have been ultraK or MegaK.
Who the fuck want big when you can have Super?
>>71127348
He shouldn't say, IMO. He's such a narcissistic, aspie parrot that he made it clear in less than 10 words.
>>71127143
I mean the same as when reporters use the term when there is a big fight at the mall.
>>71125300
Most of those buildings are falling apart because they're examples of shoddy suburban expansion meant to be thrown up as cheaply and quickly as possible. They're like 80s GM quality. Add on the fact that most of those malls haven't been profitable enough to afford upkeep and it's a wonder they haven't starated falling down on their own in a gentle breeze.
It's cheaper and easier to tear them down and start over than it would be to renovate.
>>71127349
Dude, I used to work in main Russian bank, where we had to make a stamp on papers (and we had lots, lots, lots of papers)...but our division located on 9 lvl of a building, while stamp kept on the first.
>>71117988
fuck that bracelet kiosk the bitch who runs it wears to much perfume.
shit burns my eyes but its next to the giant soft pretzel place and im not walking through sears
if i cant get soft pretzels then the entire mall can burn for all i care. amazon fo lief
>>71117988
Isn't that a good thing? Small Business have a fighting chance again.
>>71127283
Found the nigger.
Stop buying foreign junk.
Do your part today and help us tank China's economy
>>71127764
This. As long as they can compete with online trade.
>>71117988
Mall are not killed by internet. Malls are killed by niggers.
I like walking through high end malls. Any other mall is a shit show full of roving packs of aggressive niggers.
>>71126866
>Nobody, since their current CEO is a Jew that is knowingly destroying the company. He's selling Sears' and Kmart's biggest asset, their real estate, to another one of his companies which will profit off rents. Eventually all the stores close down, properties are sold and he makes a massive profit.
fuck thats evil. imagine building afamily company for years and then some filthy jew runs it to the ground for shekels
id bake in on high
Malls and Suburbs are the worst things to come out of America, and the fact that both of those things are going away tickles me greatly
>>71127944
Ive heard they make about 10% of population, how is this possible?
>>71127543
Supreme K
Mighty K
Incredible K
>>71127849
My local village is really nice. Upscale restaurants, bars, cafes, bakeries, specialty gift shops etc, things that you can't get with online trade. And all of these businesses suffer because minorities would rather fuck off to the mall and get cheated.
>>71117988
Like Sears....in rain.
>>71128010
How you would replace suburbs though?
>>71128017
Niggers gonna nig
>>71127841
why dont you just invade them already. create your own nation of little chink slaves officially
>>71128017
Because like-minded people stick together and avoid crowds they don't like.
>>71128003
It's nothing new. It's the natural life cycle for consumer-oriented businesses. Sears peaked in the early 20th century, even though they did fine through the 1980s. Then Walmart came up, then Amazon. They didn't move fast enough and got replaced.
>>71126683
are you sure you grew up? sounds more like you're insecure about what your interests are and try too hard to fit in
>>71126634
Yes it can. Amazon is cheap as fuck. I order office supplies for my restaurant on Prime Now and it's delivered to my door in less time than it takes to order pizza.
Running low on pens mid shift? Like 4 taps on my phone and 15 dollars later and I just got like 250 Bics delivered in less time than it would take me to drive down to staples.
I ordered canned chipotle peppers yesterday to make hot sauce and it was cheaper and easier than driving down the two miles to the Murder Kroger.
>>71117988
I hate malls
>>71119762
if they didn't have to put up with minimum wage, taxes, obamacare they wouldn't havre to increase prices that much.
>>71128100
Most people move back to the cities. Better for the environment, lower collective carbon footprint, Vertical farming and Arcology technologies will make it even better, shit I have no fucking clue why anybody would live in some shitty suburb where you need to take a 20 minute drive to do anything
>>71127680
Gotta make you look busy, pretty Russian thing to do. I worked in a Russian warehouse before, and my boss told me to keep drinking water so I'd pee more often and look busier kek
Malls have nothing of value anymore.
>Mall doesn't have a proper food court (yet) and the new one will probably be mostly Asian food like a Panda Express
>Mall doesn't have a grocery store
>Mall hasn't had a theater since the 1980's
>Mall hasn't had an arcade since the late 1990's
>Mall doesn't have an electronics store to buy computer hardware, modern appliances (SEARS sells outdated crap) vehicle audio sets, wires, etc.
>Clothing is either women's clothing taking over, where the rest is pleb clothes like Sears, Penny's, or faggot cuck clothes like boat shoes and chinos.
>Even H&M, the only clothing for slim men, cut their men's section by over half, replacing it with more Women's shit.
Until a mall sells me combat boots, a PC game, a terabyte SSD, and jeans in size tall (above 32 length) that aren't baggy, and food that is more than chink food or a Red Robin's, I'll consider returning. Other than that, I'm ordering online. I mean, shit. Topman, where I order my /fa/-tier pants, gives me 70% off every other day to the point where they spam my email inbox.
>>71128082
This guy knows what I'm talking about
>>71117988
Hey OP is that the Oshawa Centre?
>>71118032
on facebook
I work at a Sears ama.
>>71124900
> How do you know he didn't just declare bankruptcy and shovel the costs over on to the government?
More likely your mom and dad's pension fund.
>>71128100
Fuck, I just started playing that game. Is that what you are supposed to do? I just threw mattresses all over the ground.
>>71128191
You dont have black people in Germany, now whats your problem?
>>71120123
Amazon is way cheaper than retail.
>Tfw got a $200 pair of senheisers for $75 making brick and mortar retail's death come a little bit closer
>>71117988
Only niggers and spics go to my local mall. Business is booming for them apparently because it's always filled to the brim.
Seriously, I'm like the only white guy in a crowd when I go. There are maybe 10 coalburners and taco fuckers every time I go too.
>>71128301
Banana Republic dawg. Like 90% of their men's clothing is slim fit and they run so many sales and coupons I've been able to get like $1000 worth of stuff for less than $300. BR4Life.
Their shoes suck though. Avoid at all cost.
>>71128422
Whats yours?
>>71127314
It's just a drag to do so, in this country the only people known to love malls are teenage girls. If pressed to go, a man will make a bee-line straight to the store they seek and come back out as soon as possible
This is the common conception of "the mall" here. It's a place where men take women to make them happy. That doesn't seem to be the case anymore, women have jumped on the online shopping craze and gave it wings. They were the driving force behind malls and they are the ones who will hammer the final nail in it's coffin
>>71118032
What?
>>71123971
>Silverstein
>The same jew survives like 15 mudshit attacks
I never believed in Jews commanding things from the shadows but this isn't coincidence
>>71128348
It's not. Are you a fellow Oshawa-fag?
>>71128100
Make smaller cities, and stores that sell what people NEED.
Downtown areas of suburb cities or small towns suffer because they sell things people don't need, such as antiques. We don't need 5 antique shops downtown. Nobody needs them, few want them, and the place is rather quiet. Where's the store for shoes? For electronics? For pants? For guns? Instead, it's either open the same store as the one across the street, which is either hardware, propane, or antiques in my downtown, or not open one at all, hence why it's quiet and dead.
Small villages in the middle ages worked better. Everyone had a role. You had a baker, a blacksmith, a guardsman, a butcher, candle maker, etc. Not copy-pasted stores. People had incentives to buy things.
>>71128483
>Banana Republic
>I've been able to get like $1000 worth of stuff for less than $300.
Jesus, you must look like such a huge faggot
>>71128483
I head to teh mall for the midweek discounts that also apply to clearance items.
>$120 slacks for 30 bucks otu the fucking door
>final sale but whatevs
>>71128248
I'm certain you know what happened to so called "projects" in both UK and USA?
(All, what you could hear about them daily reality here)
>>71128483
>banana republic
That's cool if you want your pants to tear to shreds if you do any physical activity.
Buy lees or wranglers if you want good jeans. They come in all sizes and they're very cheap. I'm kinda tall and thin so I have a problem finding jeans that fit me properly.
>>71125626
>youth center
>turn it into a pen for young thugs
>wonder why it goes Detroit mode
Nah, in other cities they turn shit like malls, warehouses, and parking garages into fancy lofts. Tell me you wouldn't live in a repurposed Macy's? I was checking out a repurposed church apartment. Fucking beautiful.
>>71127643
You mean 'the yoofs'?
>>71128483
Banana Republic here looks like shit for Instagram glammy people and Filipinos. If not that, like Nordstroms for Guidos and old golfers. Find me a pair of skinnies with a 34 length in black at a store that isn't in the UK or NY.
