On 2017-02-26 9:05 AM, jmcquown wrote:

> I haven't been to a shopping mall since I was in my 20's. As a teen, it
> was a place to hang out with friends. There was a movie theatre and of
> course, being teenage girls, we loved looking at all the clothes. Rarely
> had money to buy anything, but looking was free. You couldn't drag
> me to a mall these days.


Malls seem to be losing their appeal around here. The large enclosed
collections of the same old stores don't seem to be attracting customers
the way they used to. Most new commercial developments these days tend
to be box store farms and stand alone collections. For instance, a
nearby city had a decent sized mall that at one time contained a Sears,
Walmart, a grocery store and about 60 smaller stores, and there was a
Canadian Tire across the street. Walmart and Canadian Tire moved around
the corner and about a mile down, and there is big Rona at one end.
Target moved into the unit that had been Walmart and then Kmart, but it
floundered. I usually only go there for banking and half the people in
there seem to be mall walkers.