>>6847467>>6847549>>6847561>>6847564You guys may think you have malls that are doing fine, but that doesn't change the fact that malls are not what they used to be. Hanging out at the mall on a friday, or saturday, or during the summer used to be a huge part of americana in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.
Many of the reasons to go to the mall have died out, and its a model that is largely being phased out. Its mostly due to the advent of strip malls, the loss or receding of anchor stores like Sears. Malls generally have four anchor stores, and losing more than one of them usually spells doom for a mall eventually.
Its really not a big revelation that, overall, malls aren't doing so well because the model isn't really what people are looking for anymore.
Sure, there are places where some malls are still doing fine, and get a lot of traffic, but there are many that have closed down, or shrunk back to the point that half the stores are shuttered, so they're barren to walk though.
I've lived in two different states, and I'd say that there were five major malls I visited as a kid in my youth, and only one of them still gets a lot of traffic. One did so bad it got demolished and replaced with strip malls, and two other ones have more than half the stores closed. The other is doing Ok, I guess.
But toy stores got phased out of malls over all one KB left. You don't even really see much of anything other than clothing shops and a food court anymore. Malls used to have a huge variety, but you don't really see toy stores, or game stores, or book stores or anything in them anymore.
Obviously there are exceptions, but its not the standard anymore.
