A guy walks through a mall asking how all of the businesses are making money. He believes it's all fake.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9vgM4Ct8Pd/
I found the original video
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTFS3Y2q5/
The thing that catches my thoughts is how much of the world is fake. Like this mall exists, but no one knows how it makes money. There shouldn't be a way for it to work out. We have a dead Internet theory, but what if much of reality is just like that, and the internet is where it's easiest to spot?
Those stores just go out of business after a year or two and the next idiot business venture tags in to take its place. This isn't rocket science or some conspiracy, some businesses just fail.
Most mall stores make all the stores profit at Christmas. The stores typically lose money the rest of the year. Internet sales continue to bite into market share and that will ultimately lead to those stores closing
I think another issue is that the US simply has too many malls. Suburbs/towns with a population of 50K have malls as big as European cities with a population of 500K. The average American suburb can’t sustain anything more than a strip mall and a Walmart.
How much can a store selling dollar costume jewelry really make in a month when they have to pay rent and wages all year?
Based on average US mall space rent ($29/ft²) I'd guess that's gotta be at least $10k per month for a tiny store (<300ft²) with 1-2 employees, utilities and whatever fees the mall tacks on on top of that.
Quite a lot I imagine, given just how much more business retail gets at Xmas. Like it is legitimately insane how much product you'll sell on a single day in December, compared to even the busiest day in any other month.
Whenever I need to go to downtown Cleveland I park at the end of the metro line and take the train, which stops below a shopping mall. I went for the first time in several years last week and nothing seemed to be open, at 5pm on a Saturday. Not only that, but most of the stores semed to be boarded up like they were empty inside.
Most malls work on the same principle as theme parks, you have something in the middle to lure people in ( in theme parks it's the main attraction, malls it's the food court then the more foot trafficked stores like toys and certain clothing) while having stores line the way attempting to drain the visitors of cash going from main attraction to exit.
Thanks to wide adoption of delivery services and cost of living increasing, malls are an outdated business model so most if them are empty shells nowadays.
Most of the URBEX (urban exploration) videos I watch are of abandoned malls.
It used to be the big stores, but those are going under. My favorite mall of all time was the Metro mall in Phoenix AZ. It had tons of awesome shops, and even a skateboard rink. Outside was Toys R Us and Castles and Coasters. Now only Castles and Coasters remains.
There are all kinds of metrics involved in retail stores. These things are typically dealt with in some degrees or specific economy-based educational courses.
Also, some retail stores end up taking a ton of packaged merchandise to the postal office at the end of the day, which they sold online.
Another thing too is that given how fake and gay the products at some online retailers like Amazon can be, it's a safer bet to go through a reputable retail store for certain kinds of items.
And like you said, a lot of these retail stores have already been adopting various order/delivery methods, which covers some of the extra convenience customers might want.
In Germany kebab shops, shisha bars and the like are notorious money laundering outfits. Which is why they keep taking over where normal shops are going out of business. Maybe in the US it's these stores?
That's kind of my thoughts.
As long as people get their ethnic yumyums.
Faggot.