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Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls

posted by martyb on Tuesday April 25 2017, @04:27PM   
from the the-need-for-pants dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

In the 1980's people wrote about malls as cultural centers, as temples to shopping. Now, they're dying.

Many observers are speculating about the growing trend of so-called dead malls: once-flourishing, large retail spaces that now have a high vacancy rate, low numbers of pedestrian traffic, or the lack of an "anchor" store (typically a department chain). Is it because of economic recession, or stagnant middle-class wages and growing income inequality? Or has the death of these malls been hastened by the rapid growth of online shopping?

It's difficult to say, but the dead mall phenomenon is becoming a cultural item of interest -- for retail historians, urban explorers and documentarians alike. We may read about dead malls in The New York Times or The Atlantic, but film footage can say much more than words.

Is Amazon to blame?

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Original Submission

• Women gotta work, so that we can drop more bombs Women gotta work, so that we can drop more bombs (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 25 2017, @05:25PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 25 2017, @05:25PM (#499412)

  Right?

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• Re:Women gotta work, so that we can drop more bomb (Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Wednesday April 26 2017, @01:04AM

  by linkdude64 (5482) on Wednesday April 26 2017, @01:04AM (#499734)

  Actually, it's "Women gotta work so the labor market is saturated and we can drive wages down."

  Destroy the nuclear family, destroy family history, pledge allegiance to your brand of skate clothing instead.

  I don't think there was an overall plan for this, but if there was a plan, it would be exactly what is occuring.

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