Why are North American malls dying?

Why are North American malls dying?

They are literally on life support...

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Because why would any non retard pay more money for something they can get online. Also they are havens for niggers.

on-line sales.

He brought bad optics to the Trump administration with his nazi larper type shit. I'm glad he's gone, just a huge distraction like Flynn.

because of the inability to adapt and draw customers. This is the correct answer.

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>shop at zellers a lot of my life.
>they disappear
>target takes over
>completely shit
>they leave two years later
>now nothing there

same reason cable tv is dying

its a shitty service compared to what has becoming available

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I miss Zellers

I miss Zellers. All board the Zeddy mobile.

>tfw never eat at zellers restaurant ever again

>tfw will never play at a Wimsy arcade ever again

Lowe's have been buying up all the old Target properties in Canada. They've converted quite a few of them into new stores. They also bought the Target Distribution center for Canada and transformed it into a Lowe's RDC. Rona got bought out as well and are getting converted into Lowe's. Don't forget to hail your new hardware store overlords.

They remodeled the mall where the Zellers used to be to fit in new ((((trendy))) stores and a kid's jungle jim.
I get big department stores like Canadian Tire but the mall is dead. I walk around one once in a while to look at the shit I can buy online for cheaper

Please all I want to do is move to small town USA or Canada and drive my 7.5 V8 car to the mall and hang out with Chad, Ched and Creg

Amazon

Mine's still empty. They put a little Fair in the parking lot every Canada Day now.

malls are full of niggers and degenerate everyone with half a brain buys things online now

Sounds good to me, the prices will be cheaper and less idiots

Because no one likes to hang around niggers.

Brick and morter overhead is too expensive and niggers. Last time I went to the mall it was jam packed with niggers, chimping about, fighting, stealing, just making a general nuisance of themselves. I'd rather just shop online than have to deal with that.

Even before online buying, they become magnets for shitskins that made them places to avoid.

I want to start a non profit where I get government subsidies to turn old malls in to low income housing. In these low income housing centers I want to make everyone living in these to work so in addition to the housing, each center would need multiple areas for jobs like manufacturing or assembly lines.

Ali baba, amazon, ebay, and other online deliveries

plus, malls tend to mark up prices by exorbitant percentages

When I was like 15 malls were the shit but they've become infested with niggers and spics and my area and online shopping is a thing now

If trump actually deports all the central americans LIKE HE SAID HE WOULD DO kids would start going there again

You're on the right track, you shrewd SOB.

I have chapters replacing the old target (which replaced zellers) in my town.

Only thing good about the mall here was the zellers restaurant

super high rents coupled with the fact everything you can get in a mall you can get online. A local mall around here had 9 separate stores that sold shoes...6 of those were dedicated shoe stores.

I think malls would be much better off if they opened their doors to small businesses

>shopping on line>shopping at a mall full of loud niggers

the mall in my area is a shithole for niggers and teens who need a place to get high and skateboard
those little mart areas with the dozen or so stores are dying too. just ugly empty buildings

Same thing that happened to unions.

Good reasons at the beginning, but eventually the collective organization took on a monstrous life of its own...

The decline of the mall is symbolic of the slow death of capitalism and consumerism

I thought North American malls was the best member of the Trump cabinet. He looked semi-competent and deftly dodged responding to Trump's stupid remarks.

It's a shame Trump couldn't even keep North American malls onboard the Trump train.

whats the rise of online shopping represent?

>Zellers
no point in hiding your flag leaf

90% of Toronto are big box stores and malls here being propped up by the government. They don't seem to understand that people would rather do shopping online. Amazon is evenetually going to demolish them all and Toronto will be an empty wasteland like it was 10 years ago.

I don't see why anyone should have to go outside only to find out they don't have it in stock or get hassled by the annoying clerks . I've had instances where clerks with shitty attitutes prevented me from buying at their store. Everything in store is overpriced compared to amazon as well.

>Boomers were gullible enough to buy overpriced trash for years since they could easily get 70k a year jobs with little experience
>Millenials strapped for cash just buy online since its cheaper

Amazon and internet do their job better

I dunno, lack of social space perhaps? Malls used to be a gathering point from which dipshits could go spend their money on pointless crap.
I think there's been an effort to rid malls of youth delinquents, not realizing that these stupid kids, despite the disruption they cause contribute their bottom line.
Sure the old people feel safe, but they're not dolling out the big bucks and inviting all their friends to come blow some cash at the mall.

The rise of the Bond villain archetype.

Most of them were in parts of town that were safe at the time. Now they aren't.

Target's entrance into Canada was so retardedly bungled that I really hope who ever was in charge of it got fired

The anchor store like sears jcpenny macys are closing. They used to drive people in and then the small stores would pay the rent. The economic downturn is coming.

Think about it. Lowe's has a successful business model because they sell mostly tools...

shut up faggot. Amazon is the most inefficient system around. They are just the 'it' thing, and have infinite vapodollars to run at a loss until everybody else is bankrupted.

They are the quintessential Obama company - his administration destroyed various countries as well as Europe so that USA can maintain its dominant position

I still see people shoping at malls but that is fucking retarded, they don't have anything that online stores dont have, and its always double the price.

The clerks are always faggots that prevent you from buying things or are obviously trying to scam you into buying stuff yo udon't need, like dude, do you want me to buy your shit or not??

i would appreciate stores more if the clerks were more friendly but it seems most of the time they are assholes getting in the way.

Because for adults, Amazon is an online mall without the niggers and spics
Also, malls depended on youth traffic. Today, teenagers are socially inept & don't leave their room because their phone is society to them.

Not gonna lie, former Trump supporter here. It's hilarious watching the North American shopping mall crash and burn. But in all seriousness we can't let this guy get his hands on the online coupon codes.

Malls are awful and if you go to one, it takes a lot of time because of the endless corridors.

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>EVERYTHING is cheaper online
>Online, you can buy WHATEVER you want. Want some japanese candy? An obscure book ? Merchandise from your favorite show ? An onahole ? Maybe just a wider selection of clothes ? On malls you wont find these for sure. The most "unpopular" thing you will find is a batman coffee cup.
>You have all the time you need to think. Instead of looking at the product for a few minutes, with some annoying clerk "helping" , you can watch reviews, read comments, ask a forum, etcetera
> Don't have to leave your house

This is the future of malls. No air-conditioned/heated indoor common areas for "youths" to loiter and chimp out.

Note that this is in an area where the temperature is 95F/35C for at least four months of the year, and 50F/10C for at least two other months of the year.

The thing is in the pre-globalist world, novelty stores actually had a reason to exist. Now only hipsters shop at them because nothing they sell is really a novelty anymore.
>mfw born at end of pre-globalist age. Knew what it was like.

i actually envy you, you guys buy everything online
in my third world country, malls are getting built, new malls every month
malls are shit, they only sell shit, and very expensive
and our cuck government protects them because " protecting muh jobz"
our government placed a whopping 60% tax on things bought online to discourage online trade to "protect" (((malls))) and other (((retail shops)))

At least that was the idea. Finding a genuine product review now is like a fucking needle in a haystack. Paid reviews are literally the norm for online storefronts.

Fpbp and checked

>Go to Mall
>Find item I really like/want/need
>Search on Amazon/Ebay/Newegg
>50% cheaper 23.5% of the time

Gee I wonder why?

when I was a kid, If you went to the mall real early in the morning. this herd of grey hairs would come and jog around the mall. That was 20 years ago. rip you crazy joggers.

come to spain friend, it's a bit better

>life support
More like suicide watch

this tbqh I'd never take my family there

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More like "someone pretending to be a shill bot"

>50% cheaper 23.5% of the time in the exact size and color scheme i want

nobody wants to be near niggers

A couple of reasons:
1. Things are more expensive
2. The internet
3. Niggers have taken over the remaining ones

>all these burgers talking about how they're infested with niggers

Do you all live in atlanta or something, or is the nigger problem that bad no matter where you go in the country??

The mall was magical in 1991. The smell of coffee outside Gloria Jeans, eating Sbarro pizza, the magic of brand new shoes. It's really creepy how happy this all made you and how fondly I remember what is mindless consumerism and unhealthy eating.

Buying online is better than wading through niggers and spics.

The only good thing about Lowes is that they used to have Gene Hackman as their voice over actor during the time when Clancy Brown was Home Depot's voice over actor. This meant at one point in time two different Lex Luthors hawked hardware.

In America, the mall has taken a hit but mostly because of niggers. Online sales do hurt, but sometimes people just want to get out and go buy stuff in person. If your local mall is white majority area and niggers don't get a chance to come, it probably still has a good chance at surviving.

I don't really care about malls too much. The one in my city has pictures of what use to be there before the mall. It use to be beautiful country and woods and a local dairy farm. Now the area is nothing but chain restaurants and gigantic eyesore dying because of niggers.

This is "progress."

>60% tax on online purchases
So this is the power of socialism

Die

There are niggers in malls in Canada too, I live in Toronto suburb. They just haven't gotten to your area yet.

One of the government's favorite things to do is identify areas that are "too white" and insert nigger / spic colonies into the area via subsidized housing programs. Very obviously artificial / would never happen organically, the explicit point is to break up white areas

We used to hang out at the mall after school every day, when I was a lad. You're a bit before my time but my experience was similar. When we turned 16 we all got jobs there. My best friend and I worked at the arcade. We'd go back into the bathroom with a giant vent that sucks air and smoke weed. I have fond memories of those times too. I went to that same mall 3-4 years ago. It was 90% nigger, a bunch of the stores had closed, niggers had put graffiti all over shit, they were fighting and yelling. It was just unpleasant all around. Sad to see a place I once loved in such disrepair.

pic related

you probably have a shitty attitude yourself if you cant reserve or order with a supervisor

customers have never been more entitled

You guys really are the best, checked

>remember going to the largest mall within 100 miles of home in the shithole south when I was a toddler
>100% white
>bitches carrying around platters with hot and fresh free food samples
>those fucking giant pretzels
>mall absolutely packed

>go back in late teens
>completely dead
>75% of the stores closed
>no restaurants
>empty as fuck except roving packs of niggers and other vibrant people of color

niggers congregate at malls because it's one of the few places you can go and loiter for free. This thread is a good example of how jews have destroyed even the smallest of American pastimes

Literally this. They're starting to aim for the more rural areas too. Luckily I'm safe, I bought a house in a established neighborhood.

Mine went nigger too. I'm from Chicago and they closed a lot of projects on the south side and relocated them to the far south burbs where I grew up, which was a lower middle class town of pure mediocrity but no niggers at all, and now my mom still lives there and it's half black at the big grocery store. The True Value hardware closed and there are 3 dollar stores in a quarter-mile span. Niggers don't build things, they just consume and destroy.

At least they aren't the really bad ones, just garden variety niggers. I don't feel uneasy around there. But gone are the days of leaving the front door open while we slept in the summer without AC.

>they are havens for niggers
This. A lot of people in my town avoid malls now because they're full of vulgar niggers and smelly pajeets.

Greedy malls should die, so small shops can grow

>Why are North American malls dying?

Ever heard of the Internet? It's a big thing with kids today. Your local library may have a book about it.

ur a gay haha

Yeah that's one of the biggest reasons I don't care about the mall dying. They destroyed small businesses.

The Mall of America used to be okay, but then they went and built a light rail train from downtown Minneapolis right to it. Then they went and connected downtown St. Paul to it as well. Now they are trying to extend it to the rich white southwest suburbs.

all the malls have the exact same stores we've already grown bored with. there's no unique stores in any of the malls and no reason to go out of ones way to visit any of them.

frankly it seems retarded. are they doing something to encourage independent and smaller chain businesses from opening up in their malls? or are such businesses simply not able to afford mall fees?

whatever they're doing, all these malls across north america, have to become more unique from one another or nobody will go out of their way to visit any of them.

but i suspect it's all an evil plot ot make everything ugly and control what we can and can't buy at stores. in order to ensure that the products we buy all come through them.

>guy I met online travels to see me
>dinner and a movie seems the thing to do
>to kill time before the movie, we go to the mall
>mfw it's packed with niggers nogging and half the stores are closed and space for rent
>seriously, this dump doesn't even have a coffee shop anymore
>I apologize repeatedly for suggesting we go to this shithole
>He says his mall is dying, too, and not to worry about it
>I'm still embarrassed AF, tho

I guess the Internet killed malls. You show a photo of a strip mall, however. Those are doing slightly better. People just don't like to walk much anymore. They can just park close to a store in a strip mall.

>go to mall
>it's full of disgusting peasants
>can't find the specific item I want
>get robbed and shot by a gang of young misguided humans with a poor upbringing thanks to institutionalized racism
>wake up in hospital bed
>shop online on my laptop
>find the exact item I want

It was magical because it was new and fresh. You didn't go there all the time, it was usually a rare and fun occasion where you had fun with friends and got to buy snacks and cool clothes. Nowadays the novelty is lost because most of us are so spoiled by economic prosperity that buying stuff doesn't phase us.

>muh consumerism
What is it with people nowadays trying to be deep by parroting this pseudo-intellectual garbage? What it all boils down to is that you like to spend money on things that you enjoy. I guarantee that's true for every single one of you faggots complaining about "consumerism".

What was the menu like? The food at Targets in the U.S. has always been gas station tier.

zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-28/dead-mall-stalking-one-hedge-fund-managers-tour-across-middle-america-–-part-3
3 part article on the death of malls whats next and what to look for investment opportunity in the post retail apocalypse

This is why I'm thankful malls never became a big thing like they were aiming to in the 90's here, i jsut imagine all the small business all around that'd go out of business

Australia, please.

This, there was a nice peaceful German Baptist area on the outskirts of my town, very nice. No crime, and most of the people who weren't German Baptist were rich white people. Then they built section 8 housing for niggers there, and it turned to shit.

I actually have a friend who is pitching an idea to a dead mall ownership group of taking the up scale mall,turning the upper floors into luxury condos while leaving the bottom floor as a smaller trendier mall.

I work in project management for a retail general contractor. We're called a "paper contractor" cause this company doesn't actually have any crews that enter the field, rather, we act as a liason between corporate clients like GAP or Ann Taylor and the actual general contractors we send out to do work. Usually this work simply involves renovation of shit like fitting rooms, bathrooms, but sometimes it's big, like renovating an entire flagship store big.

Let me tell you, these malls are indeed dying. GAP, Ann Taylor, and URBN are some of the biggest retailers outside of Macy's that have such a wide national presence in our disgusting shopping malls and let me tell you they are spending like crazy to constantly keep their image appealing to younger dumbass shoppers who still don't know how to online shop without getting malware. They are also running out of money, FAST, so I would expect a big fucking retail crash in the next 2-3 years and I would also expect most major shopping malls/outlets to become the subject of serious economic downturn unless these dumbass companies can come up with a better solution of appealing to the market other than coming to a company like mine to make the fitting rooms the latest theme color or the most recent goddamn instagram update. Fucking pathetic

>90% of Toronto are big box stores and malls here being propped up by the government.
it's so sad and ugly it really is

they're trying to make every town and city exactly the same. people are losing interest in the big chains though.

it's like this is all self destruction and it's all been planned to fail and to destroy us.

Brick and mortar establishments will be a thing of the past pretty soon, unless they are able to offer something of extreme convenience you can't wait a day or two for. You're paying for the rent of the store, the employees and all of the work that goes into keeping a store fully stocked. I could see a model of a store working that had the shelves stocked with show goods, where you carry around a scanner and pick what you want and everything will be delivered to you from a central warehouse, though.