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Millennial here. I didn’t try to kill the American Mall. This article has such a garbage headline. I’m in my adult life now and don’t have a lot of free time.

Millennial here. I didn’t try to kill the American Mall. This article has such a garbage headline. I’m in my adult life now and don’t have a lot of free time. The last time I went into a mall (6 months ago?), I went to three different stores to buy a pair of training shoes. The stores were kind of empty, yet, the staff couldn’t care to help me at all. Between the time driving to and from and walking into each of these stores, waiting for someone to help me, only to learn they don’t have my size in what I want, I wasted at least 2 hours. I didn’t kill any mall. If these stores provided a better experience and actually tried to be competitive the slightest, it would be worth my while. Instead, these places offer a third rate experience. You don’t even try to be competitive and then you blame your failure on a whole generation of people. If anything, you’ve put the nail in your own coffin. I’ll buy from Adidas directly or use Amazon.

smelendez 8y ago
Same experience. Loved going to "The Mall" as a teen for all the usual reasons. It was also a great place for cultural discovery in the pre-internet era. Cheap music samplers at Hot Topic probably changed my life. Heck, I first tasted lamb at a food court gyro stand. And teens need brick and mortar clothing stores because their bodies, clothing needs and tastes are changing. As a man in my 30s, malls just don't have much to offer. Certainly I'm not going to go to socialize. I don't dress up a lot so I can mostly just order jeans and such online. I have better ways to find books and music. And a lot of mall clothes seem geared to teens, logically enough, so just not very useful to me.
- majewsky 7y ago
  > I don't dress up a lot so I can mostly just order jeans and such online. When I was at a brick-and-mortar clothing store, I picked a plain gray shirt that fit me well and asked the staff how I could get 10 of these. They looked at me like I was an alien speaking Turkish. Amazon said "sure thing pal". So that's that.
njharman 8y ago
An individual millennial != millenials. One is a irrelevent single data point from which no genratiles may be stated. The other, an aggregate providing probalities of traits. And thus basis for generalities.
- throwaway12JpuH 8y ago
  The key word is "tried". No one, alone or in a group, is "trying" to "kill" the American Mall.
- taurath 8y ago
  Right but it’s not like the original post has a quantitative poll of why millennials don’t go to malls.
gridlockd 8y ago
> I didn’t kill any mall. If these stores provided a better experience and actually tried to be competitive the slightest, it would be worth my while. Just face it, you did kill the mall with this consumer attitude. Now if you don't care about malls and you're fine with them going extinct, keep it up. Don't act like you're not responsible. What you buy and how you buy it shapes the world around you. I don't personally care much for visiting malls, but then again in many pointless cities across the severely underpopulated United States, malls are the only "public space" there is.
- EGreg 8y ago
  Hey gridlockd thanks for killing all those boring websites and cumbersome tv channels and sony walkmen with your attitude. Now if you don’t care about over the air antennas and being home to catch your favorite tv show, and cassettes you had to rewind, then fine, but don’t act like you’re not responsible! In many places with bad internet, TV is all you have. The walkman is still a relic, though. Hey thanks to you and your entire generation for killing the walkman! It was a cultural icon... of course the real reason is that we got better alternatives

smelendez 8y ago

Same experience. Loved going to "The Mall" as a teen for all the usual reasons. It was also a great place for cultural discovery in the pre-internet era. Cheap music samplers at Hot Topic probably changed my life. Heck, I first tasted lamb at a food court gyro stand. And teens need brick and mortar clothing stores because their bodies, clothing needs and tastes are changing. As a man in my 30s, malls just don't have much to offer. Certainly I'm not going to go to socialize. I don't dress up a lot so I can mostly just order jeans and such online. I have better ways to find books and music. And a lot of mall clothes seem geared to teens, logically enough, so just not very useful to me.

majewsky 7y ago
> I don't dress up a lot so I can mostly just order jeans and such online. When I was at a brick-and-mortar clothing store, I picked a plain gray shirt that fit me well and asked the staff how I could get 10 of these. They looked at me like I was an alien speaking Turkish. Amazon said "sure thing pal". So that's that.

njharman 8y ago

An individual millennial != millenials. One is a irrelevent single data point from which no genratiles may be stated. The other, an aggregate providing probalities of traits. And thus basis for generalities.

throwaway12JpuH 8y ago
The key word is "tried". No one, alone or in a group, is "trying" to "kill" the American Mall.
taurath 8y ago
Right but it’s not like the original post has a quantitative poll of why millennials don’t go to malls.

gridlockd 8y ago

> I didn’t kill any mall. If these stores provided a better experience and actually tried to be competitive the slightest, it would be worth my while. Just face it, you did kill the mall with this consumer attitude. Now if you don't care about malls and you're fine with them going extinct, keep it up. Don't act like you're not responsible. What you buy and how you buy it shapes the world around you. I don't personally care much for visiting malls, but then again in many pointless cities across the severely underpopulated United States, malls are the only "public space" there is.

EGreg 8y ago
Hey gridlockd thanks for killing all those boring websites and cumbersome tv channels and sony walkmen with your attitude. Now if you don’t care about over the air antennas and being home to catch your favorite tv show, and cassettes you had to rewind, then fine, but don’t act like you’re not responsible! In many places with bad internet, TV is all you have. The walkman is still a relic, though. Hey thanks to you and your entire generation for killing the walkman! It was a cultural icon... of course the real reason is that we got better alternatives