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Tuesday 31 March 2009

Hard times have also meant that consumers are passing up the nonessential items that malls specialize in—things like scented candles, $25 baseball caps, $250 back massagers, and battery-operated guinea pigs spinning on exercise wheels. The vanishing shopping mall

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  1. valhallaisland reblogged this from marco and added:
    How about outside, in the fresh air...your neighbourhood?
  2. edkohler reblogged this from marco and added:
    Is it just me, or do places with a true sense of community have that WITHOUT malls? I’m thinking of neighborhoods like...
  3. straightouttastafford reblogged this from marco and added:
    Replace them with what? The shopping center services other purposes rather than walking around and gathering people...
  4. tjpytheas reblogged this from marco and added:
    I’m having a sense of deja vu - I had a conversation about this very thing last year but in the South African context....
  5. ouno reblogged this from marco
  6. kevin reblogged this from marco and added:
    The mall they’re talking about is the mall closest to my parents house where I grew up and it’s been nearly deserted for...
  7. gregbrown reblogged this from marco and added:
    Not to mention that it’s bad reporting for picking the Metcalf South Mall - which I grew up near - as an example....
  8. christianity reblogged this from marco and added:
    I avoid malls like the plague, and haven’t spent any significant time in one in years, so the insight about malls as...
  9. marco reblogged this from azspot and added:
    There is so much wrong with this that I don’t even know where to start. We’ve created far too many places like this....
  10. slantback reblogged this from jonathan-deamer
  11. jonathan-deamer reblogged this from vruz and added:
    azspot and vruz)
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