I always kind of assumed that was why big stores like Walmart never have any windows except at the entrance lol
That's as much about security and energy costs as it is about anything else
The casino school of architecture or leisure design style. That's why being at one hotel/casino/cruise/mall feels like being at any other. And it's so hard for those places to actually differentiate or posses an unique brand.
Windows cost money and take up valuable display shelf space.
because i almost never go to the mall?
Because it’s hard to have a clock in something that that doesn’t exist anymore?
Meh. Malls seem to be trying to come back. Apparently some magical population has not only disposable income, but also enough to waste on but just overpriced, subpar things, but enough to waste on way overpriced things to pay mall rent prices
I actually miss malls… especially the arcade and the food court. And I miss the 80s. Well not so much the 80s but actually my youth, I mostly miss that. Fuck I’m old.
But honestly I had a lot of fun hanging with my friends in the mall. My kids never really got that.
Arcades were fun. Asteroids and space invaders until my hands felt like concrete blocks. I was glad when pool tables were added. Youth really is wasted on the young. Mine was, anyway.
Yeah around me I see they are trying to reinvent themselves. Usually have other entertainment options (movie theaters, bowling, arcade) or restaurants (true "sit-down" restaurants, not the food courts) attached to them now. Where before they were solely filled with retail stores.
The malls where I grew up had sit down restaurants, with beverage licenses. One made a fabulous blue concoction (coricou) akin to Texas tea.
Wouldn't malls be cheaper rent? They're high density.
Not from what I've read. I'm sure there are risks to be considered.
Is this an American thing? Malls have never gone away and have always been full all my life.
Outside of the US where it's pretty common with large clocks in malls. Every mall I've been in in several European countries has had one or several large clocks, often being a central point of the mall.
But if you look at it the mall's manager will come and look at you angrily.
Aren't many malls in the EU actually train stations tho?
what? no.
The longer you stay, the more you spend
I feel like this works the other way around for me. If I am there for longer, I start doubting the stuff I put in my cart. If I am there for even longer, I start checking online only to find that I could even get it considerably cheaper elsewhere, so I put it back... and never end up buying it from elsewhere anyway, because I had all the time to decide.
That's because people like us are on budgets, formal or not.
It's basically The Backrooms but you can buy things.
Also the same for casinos and bars. Didn’t consider it for the mall though!
Fucking VR casinos are going to make so much money if/when they are implemented
Home casinos already exist. They're called mobile games.
Yea, that's as well as browser slot machines. So predatory, it's really disgusting. But what they were talking about at the end of the article goes way past any of that.
Same thing with pubs/bars.
They don't have clocks in casinos either so you don't notice the time.
As if shopping with your wife wasn't fun enough. "Yes dear, you look fantastic in that. No, we don't need to go to try the first one on again."
Spoken like someone who has never talked to someone under the age of 25 since he was one himself
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