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Millennial here: I can't remember the last time I went into a department store other than * to eat in their integrated restaurant * to go to their integrated

Millennial here: I can't remember the last time I went into a department store other than * to eat in their integrated restaurant * to go to their integrated supermarket * because it was raining

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kunagi7 5y ago
More reasons: * To enjoy free AC on hot summer days. In southern European countries were summers are very hot, humid and electricity is expensive it's nice to let someone else pay the bill. Still, most department stores on western countries are being slowly closed since they aren't profitable. There's a mix of reasons like online websites (Amazon, Aliexpress), smaller middle class... They call this the retail apocalypse [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retail_apocalypse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retail_apocalypse
- cafard 5y ago
  Hah. A heat-averse relative used to travel several blocks north and east in Washington, DC, going from department store to department store. But the stores she used in the 1950s were already closing before 1980. At this point, Macy's is the last real department store in downtown Washington.
Foobar8568 5y ago
* To go to toilets when traveling
dukeyukey 5y ago
Same here, with the exception of John Lewis, who are just plain great. Good prices, great selection, and a worker co-op to boot!
tehbeard 5y ago
Another millennial here, shsrig some memories from way, way back in my youth: I remember toast in the cafe at the top of Beatties, and looking out the window to the streets below. Going in to Debenhams to get an original chunky Xbox. It's weird that I have memories from my early teenage years of the high street (had to go through it from secondary school to the bus stop), and there's no new memories as it's all vape shops, poundlands or franchise cafes now. :/
- Scoundreller 5y ago
  If you ever legalize marijuana, expect a million of those shops too. Sincerely, Toronto and area where you can buy the same thing online and get it sent to your door for the same price.
  - IndySun 5y ago
    I am concerned of a significant drop in the quality of air that surrounds the non-weed-smoking single mom of two young toddlers living in a block of flats encounters when the flats above, below, and to the side, are all occupied by legal weed smokers (And the majority of stores sell weed). Am I wrong to be concerned?
    - tobylane 5y ago
      What pollutants are you thinking of, and which of them would travel through walls and floors?
      - Thorrez 5y ago
        I live in an apartment, and on a number of occasions I smelled weed. I don't know whether it harms my health at all or how it would compare to tobacco. The smell was a bit bothersome though.
      - incone123 5y ago
        I recently moved out of Barratt apartment that was built so poorly that I could smell the neighbor's smoke in the bathroom (which was in the middle of the place and had no windows). Smoke also drifted in through windows. Makes no difference if it's weed or tobacco.

Millennial here: I can't remember the last time I went into a department store other than * to eat in their integrated restaurant * to go to their integrated supermarket * because it was raining

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kunagi7 5y ago

More reasons: * To enjoy free AC on hot summer days. In southern European countries were summers are very hot, humid and electricity is expensive it's nice to let someone else pay the bill. Still, most department stores on western countries are being slowly closed since they aren't profitable. There's a mix of reasons like online websites (Amazon, Aliexpress), smaller middle class... They call this the retail apocalypse [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retail_apocalypse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retail_apocalypse

cafard 5y ago
Hah. A heat-averse relative used to travel several blocks north and east in Washington, DC, going from department store to department store. But the stores she used in the 1950s were already closing before 1980. At this point, Macy's is the last real department store in downtown Washington.

Foobar8568 5y ago

* To go to toilets when traveling

dukeyukey 5y ago

Same here, with the exception of John Lewis, who are just plain great. Good prices, great selection, and a worker co-op to boot!

tehbeard 5y ago

Another millennial here, shsrig some memories from way, way back in my youth: I remember toast in the cafe at the top of Beatties, and looking out the window to the streets below. Going in to Debenhams to get an original chunky Xbox. It's weird that I have memories from my early teenage years of the high street (had to go through it from secondary school to the bus stop), and there's no new memories as it's all vape shops, poundlands or franchise cafes now. :/

Scoundreller 5y ago
If you ever legalize marijuana, expect a million of those shops too. Sincerely, Toronto and area where you can buy the same thing online and get it sent to your door for the same price.
- IndySun 5y ago
  I am concerned of a significant drop in the quality of air that surrounds the non-weed-smoking single mom of two young toddlers living in a block of flats encounters when the flats above, below, and to the side, are all occupied by legal weed smokers (And the majority of stores sell weed). Am I wrong to be concerned?
  - tobylane 5y ago
    What pollutants are you thinking of, and which of them would travel through walls and floors?
    - Thorrez 5y ago
      I live in an apartment, and on a number of occasions I smelled weed. I don't know whether it harms my health at all or how it would compare to tobacco. The smell was a bit bothersome though.
    - incone123 5y ago
      I recently moved out of Barratt apartment that was built so poorly that I could smell the neighbor's smoke in the bathroom (which was in the middle of the place and had no windows). Smoke also drifted in through windows. Makes no difference if it's weed or tobacco.