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A lot of malls near me are filled with slop hypebeast stores that resell fashion products or pokemon cards / merchandise now.
The successful ones seemed to have pivoted from selling products to selling services like bowling / axe throwing / go karting.
Which I don't blame them for, really. It makes sense, the only reason I go to the mall is to try on clothes to see what size I am. A lot of fast fashion now, overprivileged teenagers carrying dozens of bags from zara / h&m even though the clothes won't survive one wash.
Uniqlo is also doing really well, they have a lot of business but they can't seem to keep up with the demand, the place is always a mess when I go there.
It’s funny Uniqlo is one of the few stores in these kinds of places I would bother going into. The prices are generally fair and the quality is decent. The clearance section is also worth looking at. And I mean, I hardly shop for clothes at all these days because I really have to stretch my dollar.
there's so much clothing at uniqlo that trend towards gender neutral as well with boxy silhouette cuts which does wonders for my dysphoria. i couldn't find any clothes i genuinely felt comfortable in till i started trying things on there.
Yeah, I buy 2-3 shirts a year (should probably be less but I keep getting bleach on my shirts when I clean), Uniqlo is good enough quality and for like $9 a shirt I have zero complaints.
I can't speak for their pants though, and neither can my partner lol. I have thicc thighs and none of their pants fit me unless I go way over my waist size, and she's taller than average so they all look like capris on her.
I don't think I've purchased clothes from anywhere except Costco / Uniqlo in 5 years at this point haha
huh if the mall was all activity kinda shit and community space i might have gone to one in the last decade.
Malls are popular here in Finland. At least more than in the US. The difference seems to be that they actually sell things you need.
In the US, it is like the cliché of buying a pocketwatch from a shady guy in a trenchcoat. All of the stuff is junk you don’t need, and even if you need it, it’s junk, sold at luxury prices. It isn’t even buy-it-for-life for the price.
A mall should be essential city infrastructure, not privatized portions of a city wherein capitalism reaches its most pure expression
our big suburban malls are even worse than that and typically aren't somewhere you could walk to even if you wanted to