This created a really weird economic problem because a lot of baby boomers wanted it all for themselves. I had a mall near my highschool try to kick out all the teens, and only go for the upper class.
Somehow mentioning this as a reason for malls dying gets me a lot of glares.
We were actually told in Higschool by our teachers to not go there at all. The problem was all the places to hang out were like that. There was a bakery that had a sign that said no students from my highschool were allowed at all. They defeated themselves, and we were blamed for it.
Malls in general are hard to watch die. The primary shopper is middle aged women, but the secondary are geeks. I know of a mall in Spokane that is alive and well because of the geek shops in it. The comic shop is the most frequented place in the entire mall. Likewise, I knew the mall from highschool was dead, because the Software Ect was now in a different spot in a completely different area.
You know what's funny about those geek shops? They were often the only ones that didnt have the attitude of 'spend or leave' towards their customers. Small wonder it was the place I most often saw the people browsing fixing displays or even outright helping eith stocking.
Somehow mentioning this as a reason for malls dying gets me a lot of glares.
We were actually told in Higschool by our teachers to not go there at all. The problem was all the places to hang out were like that. There was a bakery that had a sign that said no students from my highschool were allowed at all. They defeated themselves, and we were blamed for it.
Malls in general are hard to watch die. The primary shopper is middle aged women, but the secondary are geeks. I know of a mall in Spokane that is alive and well because of the geek shops in it. The comic shop is the most frequented place in the entire mall. Likewise, I knew the mall from highschool was dead, because the Software Ect was now in a different spot in a completely different area.
You know what's funny about those geek shops? They were often the only ones that didnt have the attitude of 'spend or leave' towards their customers. Small wonder it was the place I most often saw the people browsing fixing displays or even outright helping eith stocking.
It helps that everyone wants to work at a shop like that. You can tell the gamers from the airheads at gamestop pretty easily.