What happened that caused malls in America to fall into decline?

What happened to America's malls?
What happened that caused malls in America to fall into decline?
After decades of success followed by the glory days of the 70's, 80's and 90's, malls today have fallen on hard times. Gone are the days when malls were bustling centers of the community teaming with families and shoppers. Considering the booming economy and low unemployment rate how are malls in such dire straights these days?
>America's malls are rotting away
>The worst is yet to come
>As major department leave malls other stores break their leases or negotiate much cheaper rent
>The weakest malls then enter "death spirals."
>A quarter of American malls will close in five years -- around 300 out of 1,100 that still currently exist.

>"If that's not an apocalypse then I don't know what is," says Davidowitz.
money.cnn.com/2017/12/12/news/companies/mall-closing/index.html
After decades of success followed by the glory days of the 70's, 80's and 90's, malls today have fallen on hard times. Gone are the days when malls were bustling centers of the community teaming with families and shoppers. Considering the booming economy and low unemployment rate how are malls in such dire straights these days?
>America's malls are rotting away, the weakest entering death spirals, the worst is yet to come.
>More than 300 retailers filed for bankruptcy in 2017, a quarter of American malls will close in 5 years
>As major department leave malls other stores break their leases or negotiate much cheaper rent
>"If that's not an apocalypse then I don't know what is," says Davidowitz.
money.cnn.com/2017/12/12/news/companies/mall-closing/index.html

This is a direct copypasta of a thread that has been posted at least 5 times in the last 48 hours.

Clever slide as it is not b8 worthy but rather discussion..

Do not engage.

Now this is how you make a proper mall thread
Not just, hurr durr wut hupun to mull durrrrr
Bump for stupid topic with obvious answer

The internet and Walmart

Ill take "what are niggers and why are the terrible for society" for $1,000 Alex

Malls are useless waste of huge warehouses located at prime spots in the city.

People don't care anymore if the shit they buy on Amazon is late, more expensive and broken/stolen. Those big corporation know better, that's all that count.

Malls turned into shopping outlets rather than entertaining social hangouts. They discontinued arcades, shooting ranges, restaurants, and movie theaters in my area. The most they do is sell ice cream and clothes.

alright i just watched goodfellas and the fact that this photo was taken in 1990 and the two adults on the left look like karen and henry has got me shook

RISE AND MALL OF THE 56% REICH!

Gee, who knows?

Same reason for the decline of people watching TV, or going to cinemas, or watching concerts. Which is Niggers. When you watch TV, you see Niggers on advertisements. When you go to the cinema, the ticket guys are Niggers. When you watch live concert, the security guys are Niggers.

Malls deserve to burn. They've destroyed inner cities like no bomb ever could.

niggers

Niggers

Tinterweb habbened.
Immigrants are in the malls.
Decent people avoid brown town.

Godbless the Mall of Minnesomalia

>what happened to American malls?
Pic related

A combination of demographic change, the decline of the middle class and rise of online shopping.

Niggers

Who is displaced now?!

Why would anyone want to go to a mall? The only reason anyone ever went was to hang out, and all the reasons to hang out there are good. No movies, no arcades, just endless hallways filled with crap I could buy online for cheaper and without having to drag my ass to some shitty mall.

Malls killed malls, not us.

This. Anyone ever been to Towson Town Center on a weekend? Jesus

You can order stuff online now
People dont have the expendable income to be shopping for fun
Lots of nigs and spics hanging around malls making them not safe

Who cares what it is. The entire suburban lifestyle in general, and malls in particular, are a fucking cancer.

Forgot to add, that it's the same reason for the decline in CD sales too. People are buying less and less physical CDs because when you go to the CD stores, you are likely to meet Niggers on the way there. People are sick of being mugged when you just want to buy CDs.

Flash mobs of niggers are bad for business. It doesnt matter how tasty the malls cinnabons are middle class white people don't want to have anything to do with that violent, subhuman garbage.

at least on amazon you can get whatever you want, and you're not limited by what's in store

>work at cuckazon sort center

very sad last 8 months. think im just going to start selling life insurance to old people instead

Niggers.
Quit asking the same fucking question you double nigger. The answer will always be niggers.

I work at the amazon warehouse jew and I want to kill myself every day. Idk how I made it 5 years.

Because I would rather buy shit online than deal with horrible traffic, horrible parking, overpriced dogshit, niggers, and unattended minors everywhere. Fuck that shit.

niggers

I stopped going because they are now overrun with violent blacks and illegal immigrants. The white mall is now in the rich area and I go there maybe 1-2 times a year. By everything on amazon besides groceries. I drive an hour out of my way to go to a white grocery store. I can’t wait until you can just order groceries and get the delivered.

>Glorifying mindless consumerism with a building infested with spics, nigs and crying kids.


Thats why faggot.

Can't shart there

That is so fucking sad.

They are pointless in an era when you can deliver almost anything to your home instantaneously for negligible cost. There will still be big box retailers and malls in big cities but most of the suburban ones will close excepting Walmart and Targets. Some people have suggested turning them into assisted care or retirement communities. Regardless, the consumer culture in the US is repulsive and shouldn't be missed. The biggest problem with the commercial slump will be increased unemployment in retail.

Muh service job's aren't the wave of the future after all and factory jobs were actually worth protecting. Who whoulda thunkit?!

The local high end mall I grew up going to in the 90's and 2000's is literally a sea of niggers now. I would never endanger any of my loved ones by bringing them near such a situation. We do amazon.

Gen Z faggots happened

Come to southern California. Malls are still full here. Mostly Arabs and Asians though. I remember the days when these same malls were majority caucasian (born and raised here, unfortunately)

Read George Ritzer's book called Spectacle
Might be called Spectacle
He mentions the death of spectacle

1834
>you see two men start talking shit
>whole town comes out to watch them duel because there's nothing to do

1978
>oh neato a mall! WOW!
2008
>wow mom this mall is fucking gay I want to go to Mall of America
>t.Cartman

Dopamine rush of spectacle fades and needs to be replaced with ever more stimulating spectacles

Holly shit fuck off with your autistic mall threads

Teen girls stop hanging out there.

Good luck today Mr Moore

Don't believe that amazon shit. Online retail is only 10% of retail and amazon is only 10% max of that. Spending habits have changed. Cars are more expensive and require more money out of pocket every month. Health Insurance has gone up in an order of magnitude. People now have a $400 to $500 a month cell bill because if you have four people in your family that all have phones, of course they are going to have the latest and greatest which monthly lease fees add a significant cost. Cost of living has gone up our all but wages have been stagnant for 25 years. Also when people do decide to part with their money, they want a good experience. They want to feel good while shopping. This is why malls that have a lot of poor people in them die off because no one wants to be around poor people and nogs. So those mall die off. Example. There is a mall here that back in the 80's and 90's was THE place to have for us kids. That mall is close tp the south side and it is the only mall around for the nogs to go to. So people stopped going. That mall also hasn't changed with the times and is kinda stuck with its decor. Juxtaposed is a mall over by the airport that has all high end shit, nice restaurants like CheeseCake Factory and Capital Grille. Only upper middle calls has a reason be to there because we know there is absolutely nothing there for poor people and nogs. So that mall does great. Lots of expensive stores and yes you do see people with bags in their hands. But its a good experience. You feel good there, you feel safe, it's clean and there are no nogs walking around with their bluetooth speakers banging rap noise.

Don't believe that amazon shit. Online retail is only 10% of retail and amazon is only 10% max of that. Spending habits have changed. Cars are more expensive and require more money out of pocket every month. Health Insurance has gone up in an order of magnitude. People now have a $400 to $500 a month cell bill because if you have four people in your family that all have phones, of course they are going to have the latest and greatest which monthly lease fees add a significant cost. Cost of living has gone up but our wages have been stagnant for 25 years. Also when people do decide to part with their money, they want a good experience. They want to feel good while shopping. This is why malls that have a lot of poor people in them die off because no one wants to be around poor people and nogs. So those mall die off. Example. There is a mall here that back in the 80's and 90's was THE place to hang for us kids. Parents would just drop us off and go home and fuck while we were gone. That mall is close to the south side and it is the only mall around for the nogs to go to. So people stopped going. That mall also hasn't changed with the times and is kinda stuck with its decor and lost major retailers that had more problems than the demographics the that area. Juxtaposed is a mall over by the airport that has all high end shit, nice restaurants like CheeseCake Factory and Capital Grille. Only upper middle calls has a reason be to there because we know there is absolutely nothing there for poor people and nogs. So that mall does great. Lots of expensive stores and yes you do see people with bags in their hands. But its a good experience. You feel good there, you feel safe, it's clean and there are no nogs walking around with their bluetooth speakers banging rap noise.

I remember when Towson Mall was where the whites went (this was 20 years ago). The niggers were still trashing Golden Rings. Is Nordstom's still there? I can't imagine nigs affording anything there

niggers started going there and acting like fools.

Big ups my lad

black people. steal and have no money to spend. whites avoid going to places they feel threatened