when did malls basically fade off into obscurity?

[Art Barr]

Everything is wack these days.
Like the original depression.
Except there is no prohibition to keep it moving forward.
Plus, the bush era basically set it back to before everyone had some monetary wiggle room and eliminated most culture from existing and here we are.
It isn't just the mall that is boring.
Everything is boring as fukk, now.
Everything.


Art Barr

 

[LunaticVillage415]

In my opinion, mall culture is very 80's and 90's. When you walk into Macy's, most of the time they're playing hella 80's music. Back in the 80's and 90's, you really had no choice but to go to the mall to buy clothes, buy music etc. Back in that era, malls were even better as malls had arcades back then. When's the last time you seen a real live arcade? Now with the internet, you can do all that from your couch. I remember when I was in high school in the early 2000's, I was one of the first dudes to buy clothes online. They didn't sell Mitchell and Ness throwback jerseys everywhere before they really blew up in 01', early 02' and online was the best spot to cop them. I would cop exclusive New Era pinwheel fitteds from Total Sports online and nikkas would be like "where'd you get that hat? shyt is hella fresh". I would say I bought it online and they would like at me like I was crazy, like "how the fukk do you do that?"

But yeah, malls in richer suburban areas are still popping. Especially during Christmas season. But there are countless amounts of dead malls throughout America today. Once a mall loses a big anchor store like Macy's, it's pretty much a wrap. The clothes selection at the mall is hella boosie too. I prefer shopping at boutiques (for high quality shyt like selvedge denim and certain streetwear) or even the damn thrift store. If you pay full price for anything Polo from the mall, you're hella dumb. Going early in the morning to cop a decent retro Jordan release for retail is also something good about the mall, but fukk doing that at a hood mall.

 

[feelosofer]

Mall are no longer necessary unless you are shopping upper-mid to high end where you need to try the stuff on. Besides you can just price match and buy it online.

 

[FSP]

Millenia in Orlando is poppin. Saw a store there thst didn't sell watches under 25k

 

[daemonova]

im boycotting Atlantic Station and I haven't been to Avalon, they act like they don't want blacks up their until we pay for a Marta station down the street, I go to Perimeter Mall because its by my job, but I only got to mall for movies, food court, Spencer's and Rapestop
I live behind Stonecrest.

 

[Sccit]

THE SOCIAL ASPECT OF LIFE IS OVER....MACHINES DEHUMANIZED EVERYTHING.


GO READ UP ON DRUM MACHINES HAVE NO SOUL/JOHN WOOD

 

[King Jove]

most of the clothing brands i wear they don't sell in the mall

 

[Bless't]

open air areas(idk the appropriate name) with the surrounding condos or hotels are the new wave. They have a little bit of everything for everybody without being huge and overbearing insulated feel of a mall...on top of that the shops are usually not the main attractions, it's the restaurants, bars, movie theaters, outdoor activities ...downtown silver spring and the national harbor outside of DC are prime examples...

And from what i see malls still serve there purpose, there mostly catered to families, teens and older people...plus there are still a good amount of people who still like too try on, see and get a feel of products before they buy them...but if it ain't connected to a major retailer like target or costcos, it's probably dry as shyt for the most part...

The bolded breh...

Mall walkers!

 

[NicoleNecole]

Online shopping and small boutiques. Thrift stores. IG boutiques. I still go to the mall though.

 

[alpo]

Miami Dade begs to differ. shyt like the Aventura Mall and Dolphin mall are crunk 365 days a year. Traffic be like.

Just read that they trying to build the biggest mall in the nation in my old neighborhood Miami Lakes. shyt makes no sense because that area is so small. shyt Miami is way too small for all the shyt they have now. It's going to be bigger than the mall of Americas in Minn. Having waterparks and shyt in it. So glad I don't live in that bytch no more. Traffic is going to be like.

when?

 

[jwonder]

when?

Largest mall in the nation proposed for Miami-Dade

Don't know when. But fukk it have fun when it opens. I will never be at that bytch.

 

[3rdWorld]

Malls dying coincides with social well being dying..I love tech and buying online for convenience, but Im still not an android and occasionally like casual human interactions.

 

[loyola llothta]

Mall stay pack in the south I just don't see black folks in them like that no more

 

[CashmereThoughts]

Malls are for dummies.

Simpletons who think Starbucks is "good coffee", still pay quadruple the price for cell phone accessories at retail stores instead of using Amazon and ask stupid shyt like "when is the iPhone 7 coming out"

Uninformed consumers that are in corporate Americas back pocket. fukk a mall, same fukking merchandise from coast to coast. Only major retail chain I fux with is Macy's and that's because they got stupid sales and dope as store brands like "inc" and "bar III" that stay ahead of the curve.