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The remaining malls in the U.S. are living on borrowed time. In general, there's no/fewer public drinking fountains, fewer public restrooms, shrinking number o
by llebttamton 11y ago
The remaining malls in the U.S. are living on borrowed time.
In general, there's no/fewer public drinking fountains, fewer public restrooms, shrinking number of places that doesn't involve soup-Nazi consumerism and ever less spaces for homeless and the elderly to not be bothered. It's a not-so-subtle form of hate directed at anyone unable or unwilling to be extorted on a regular basis. Folks are going to get their power and heat/air-conditioning somehow, but there's big trouble in store for any shop owner that retaliates against customers... because they will inevitably find ways to ruin the business. Starbucks is immensely profitable and doesn't have to resort to passive-aggressive hate and discrimination games.
- inthewoods 11y agoInteresting article on why the idea that malls are dying may be more a media concept than reality: http://www.citylab.com/design/2015/03/shopping-malls-arent-actually-dying/387925/ http://www.citylab.com/design/2015/03/shopping-malls-arent-a... "The dead or dying mall is a real phenomenon. But all you have to do is invert these figures to get the bigger picture, which looks very different. If 20 percent of malls are in trouble, then 80 percent are still healthy. If 3.4 percent of malls are dying, then 96.6 percent of them aren't. (When the New York Times ran an otherwise nuanced front-page story on struggling malls in January, the accompanying graphic had a top line of 20 percent, wrongly suggesting that a rash of dead malls was a pandemic.)"