Why did malls die?

Why did malls die?

online shopping

Why did malls die?

Same reason public transportation did.

Unironically, niggers.

kikes didnt maintain the properties
kike laws allowed non-whites to fuck everything up
kike usury, the kike federal reserve, and kike corporations robbed working americans of discretionary income
kike feminism turned girls into wannabe-men

People get what they deserve in this life or the next or so on. I'll just reroll and so will you but I'll have another shot and you'll be a fly on shit.

Vaguely on topic reposted spam. Not only "spoonfeed me" but very little effort given to the thread, and the answer is always "blacks" and "online shopping" and "lower disposable income"

It was a novelty of the time since became obsolete. If you're just trying to buy product then it's all online.

Greed. I’m doing these businesses a favor by not making them ship via Amazon. They should incentivize me to come in rather than cherry-pick online.

youtu.be/DL7-CKirWZE

Heres the most common spam

Niggers and Amazon

Chinese here. I studied at OSU, and as a foreigner, I have some perspective to share.

I quickly learned to shop online in the US because delivery to your doorstep is almost as fast as in China (about 2 days if you’re an Amazon Prime member).

If you go to a mall, you have to drive, and American classmates told me that parking lots and similar places might have sketchy people (like drug addicts or criminals).

So, I think there are three main reasons:

1. Worsening public safety at the grassroots level,

2. The convenience of online shopping,

and 3. The modern lifestyle where everything, including work, can be done from home.

When I was studying in the US, the pandemic hit, and the Chinese people I knew who worked there (mostly programmers) didn’t leave their homes at all. They relied on Uber and DoorDash for food and drinks, worked from home, and shopped online. Many of them, even after the pandemic, didn’t want to return to the office and were willing to take a pay cut for remote jobs.

only in the US.
everywhere else is doing fine.

Niggers and Amazon

As of 2024 Q4, e-commerce accounts for 18.4% of all retail sales in the U.S.

That's about double the pre-pandemic percentage. Malls went into steep decline before online shopping was even 5% of the overall total.
Envision two scenarios:
1) non-whites no longer exist but online shopping does
2) online shopping no longer exists but non-whites continue to grow and get pandered to by governments and society
In which scenario do you think malls would be able to attract people to come to them? Malls can offer far more than just physical goods. Besides, women have always been the bulk of mall spending and for them shopping is an experience. They love to try on clothes, get a makeover at Sephora, gift shop at Bath and Bodyworks, and then chat with their gaggle of friends while stuffing their faces full of mallslop.
Non-whites made malls feel unsafe, which drove women away. Now they shop at lifestyle centers, which have better control over the environment because their nature makes them difficult to loiter in without buying something. Music stores were killed by streaming but female focused retail, the bulk of mall business, was killed by pavement apes.

malls are dead because they require huge parking lots near them, which in modern cities can only be provided if they're outside the city

I think the answer is niggers.
Yeah, online shopping is a thing, but women still prefer to shop in person for some reason.

Well if you look closely in the pic you shared, you can see the reason

Nigger fatigue

With a few exceptions like the long gone Zion Center in Salt Lake City, most large malls were outside of cities. The size of parking lots were never a problem. They served as useful moats to keep poor riff-raff away and when inner city youths demanded bus routes be extended out to the white malls, the bus stops were placed at the far edge of the parking lots to discourage the pavement apes as much as legally possible.
Malls worked just fine when security was allowed to get rid of the trash.

it's all online.

That's a male centric point of view but males were never all that important to malls. Radio Shack and the arcade were never a big contributor to the bottom line. It was the scores and scores of clothing stores, makeup shops, and gift places that kept the malls going. Those are all female focused and things they don't want to buy online if they can get them in person. They're not savvy shoppers and are willing to pay mall markups for immediate gratification in a social environment. They're not willing to go if they're going to be harassed and possibly attacked by Basketball-Americans.

Imagine being a kid and growing up with the 2020s interpretation of Christmas.

being this obsessed

Take a break from the internet

fpbp

It funny bit is that blacks were welcomed in malls if they were middle class and behaved themselves. But the problem with well behaved middle class blacks is that they carry water for the inner city pavement apes that destroy everything. Well behaved middle class blacks had access to white society but threw it all away to gain the approval of their violent cousins in the urban jungle.

Malls are still alive in countries without niggers.

thank you for the analysis professor chang

Amazing how people like you celebrate ignorance of reality because you think Anon Babble should be like the up/down arrow place you came from. Turn 360 degrees and return to your bubble.

It's easy to say niggers, smart to mention online shopping avoided sales tax at first, but the slow death of the middle class was the final goal of the hat trick.
People have so much less disposable income now compared to the 90's.

because the people with money to shop there are too scared to shop there (wealth guilt, afraid of strangers, lazy, etc).

Not everything i the world revolves around non-whites.Some things happen for different reasons.

You know what I like doing? Going to the local shopping mall and having a cheap lunch in the massive food court that has food from all over the world.

Is that true tho? Fucking Super Nintendo games were $50 in the 90s, and mall clothing was practically the same nominal price as it is today. I live in a cheap apartment complex and trash single mothers drive late model SUVs and have 50in flat screens

die

wat?
there's like literally 8 malls where I live

It was online shopping and the businesses that didn’t adapt died. At one time 75% of all lawnmowers and household appliances in America were bought at a Sears store but they failed to adapt fast enough and Sears almost died. Grocery stores and gas stations are the only brick and mortar stores that are currently somewhat safe from failing.
Also, my old boss’s BBQ restaurant closed during covid so he recently opened a small bar in the local mall and everyone is praising it for saving the mall. Guys just sit at the bar and drink while their wives shop.

It was the scores and scores of clothing stores, makeup shops, and gift places that kept the malls going. Those are all female focused

i hadnt been to the mall in a while. since they closed the last record store and other male oriented places. and when i did walk through every store was for women. i felt like i didnt belong there at all. not one place for a guy to browse. not even a sporting goods store. just dozens of clothes stores for women and teens

meh
fairly decent analysis of what happened to most malls in urban environments.
doesn't cover the demise of small town malls, but that's probably because small town malls died in lockstep with the small town itself dying.

It's right in your post, anon

Groups of youth

youtube.com/watch?v=zpTTrP-srRM

music stores

video stores

That’s the hardest part for me. I miss leaving the house to buy entertainment and taking the risk of it sucking and having to leave again to return it and choose another.