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http://www.businessinsider.com/the-retail-apocalypse-has-officially-descended-on-america-2017-3quote:The retail apocalypse has officially descended on America There goes all the "low skill" retail jobs. love 2 live in late stage capitalism's degeneration from a consumer-based economy to a capitalist luxury economy
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As a dyslexic I soppurt Ed Malls
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the dmv always seems to move into a mall before it dies
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yeah if that music was playing in the mall i'd run from it too edit: nothing says edgy youth like a middle aged guy with male pattern baldness trying to look hip, threatening to kick peoples asses gobbagool has issued a correction as of 15:51 on Mar 22, 2017 |
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where is paul blart gonna work? 
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Darkman Fanpage posted:where is paul blart gonna work? I was gonna say the white house but I mistook him for the fat guy from the other mall cop movie observe and report who kept calling Aziz Ansari Saddam Hussein
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Darkman Fanpage posted:where is paul blart gonna work? A gritty send off to the classically beloved character, Kevin James in his last portrayal of the beloved private security officer patrols the empty skeleton of a decaying shopping center in Blart (2019).
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as a teenager the mall was basically the only thing to do besides drugs and loitering so rip
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The Brown Menace posted:I was gonna say the white house but I mistook him for the fat guy from the other mall cop movie observe and report who kept calling Aziz Ansari Saddam Hussein that was a strange film
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Jose posted:that was a strange film Observe & Report is good. I think most stores' leases in malls are tied to big retailers like Sears, Macy's etc. also having space in the mall so yeah malls are probably hosed. Looking forward to the increased rates of old people getting hit and killed by motorists because they have no safe indoor place to do their 5 a.m. power-walks.
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I just buy less poo poo in general, I don't think online shopping is the only factor but it's a big one if not the biggest  Plus as someone who lives in a ~costal liberal stronghold~ I can just walk to buy stuff if I need a physical space to do so. Another kick in the balls for middle America. Also the mall was a cool place to hang out as a teen so RIP that part of my youth. Though people were saying K-Mart was dead six or seven years ago so I'll believe it when I'm standing over its freshly packed grave.
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the mall was a bad idea to begin with and is entirely a vestige of american excess, having one giant super ultra mega store like 45 minutes away from everyone is ridiculous and doesn't work in a world where we are rapidly seeing the enormous disadvantage of needing a car for absolutely anything. also they were inevitably going to become massive magnets for crime since any decline means more of the mall's open space is unsecured and unsupervised, meaning they only decline further, meaning you end up needing to demolish the whole loving enormous space and spend a shitload of money to not make the place tank in property value due to its repute as a gang fortress. on the flip side, when they do demolish very centrally located malls while keeping the parking lots, they make for very good public event spaces, test courses for drivers ed, and hell, probably a decent place to host racing of some kind if someone organized a way to do it i am glad for its death and unironically see the neighborhood strip mall as an actually better means of doing retail. if strip mall managers were clever they'd take advantage of this by increasing the front promenades of their space and making them pleasant places to just hang around at via plants and benches and maybe spots for kiosks and other small stands. kill the malls, refurbish strip malls into extremely tiny mini-malls
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MeatwadIsGod posted:Observe & Report is good. a mall in this area which had been failing hard got bought by some turkish company a couple years ago (?) and has added an aquarium, and a pretty decent if somewhat smaller dave and busters type establishment. There were 2 huge anchor stores empty but I think the State of NY just took one of them over to put a call center in. In my imagination anyways, this should work. adding a few hundred people there every day who will need to eat and maybe even do a little shopping should help. Your comment though is spot on - for years the only people in this mall were the olds powerwalking.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo-X3YdA3mA There are many more if you like this
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:There goes all the "low skill" retail jobs. they can go work in the amazon warehouse mines
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It's a good thing Malls are dying, but that has been the case for a long time so it's not really a big deal. Also who the gently caress wants to "save" the mall? lol
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guys we need to hold a charity breakdancing competition to raise $2000 by midnight or else mean Mr. Retcher is gonna close down the Spencers
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Better get out there and save your malls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY_bhVSGKEg
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:It's a good thing Malls are dying, but that has been the case for a long time so it's not really a big deal. Also who the gently caress wants to "save" the mall? The main thrust of this thread is that hundreds of thousands of jobs are gonna be lost and there won't be any replacements.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:The main thrust of this thread is that hundreds of thousands of jobs are gonna be lost and there won't be any replacements. wrong, idiot - Trumps going to bring all the retail jobs back from Mexico
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:http://www.businessinsider.com/the-retail-apocalypse-has-officially-descended-on-america-2017-3 Don't worry, all of those low-skill retail workers can just go back to college and get STEM degrees and become programmers! - Dems
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:The main thrust of this thread is that hundreds of thousands of jobs are gonna be lost and there won't be any replacements. *in liberal voice* thats not true. some of them will work at amazon warehouses.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:The main thrust of this thread is that hundreds of thousands of jobs are gonna be lost and there won't be any replacements. but what will happen to the american dream of working minimum wage at the cash at hot topic until u die????
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The real reason nobody goes to malls is that wages have been stagnant for decades, and nobody wants to finance consumption through credit any more. Capitalism is hollowing out its own consumer base, meaning more and more of our energies are being directed towards servicing the desires of the capitalists who stole our wages to begin with. If malls survive it'll be because they're renting out space to churches or commercial interests.Fallen Hamprince posted:but what will happen to the american dream of working minimum wage at the cash at hot topic until u die???? Well without income or welfare, I guess you just die.
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Lets see you hiding in an online store when the zombies come.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:The main thrust of this thread is that hundreds of thousands of jobs are gonna be lost and there won't be any replacements. Don't worry there's plenty of independent contractor positions in the new sharing economy
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working in retail is completely awful and malls are miserable shrines to consumption and excess so I'm glad to see them die sucks for all those college kids that can't make rent now though maybe we could do something about that
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i don't know about you guys but i'm in the 'strip the copper wiring out of abandoned buildings for meth money' industry and the future could not be brighter right now
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But what to do with these ugly concrete hogbuses? How about, like... affordable housing? No, no, no windows that's a terrible idea, come back to me [...] Oh, wait, let's turn them into vast LED hydroponic farms and grow vegetables there. Not sure what to do with the empty acres of parking lots. Maybe just let nature reclaim it
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Democrats could get a head start unionizing the sex workers of the future but that would be a hard sell for the influential frigid bitch and Hollywood creep wings of the party.
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Really despite the low wage job loss I don't see anyone saying this is a bad thing They were private poorly thought out copies of public market spaces that stifled dissent in the name of property rights It's pretty much like newspapers: they will die and not be missed
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Nebakenezzer posted:Really despite the low wage job loss I don't see anyone saying this is a bad thing It's a bad thing because these malls killed Main Street, and now there's nothing left in these towns. Older malls in particular used to bring in a lot of tax money, too, before developers got smart with PIFs and made the shoppers pay for it all.
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Fullhouse posted:working in retail is completely awful and malls are miserable shrines to consumption and excess so I'm glad to see them die Half of the stores in half of the malls I'm familiar with (the malls in older working class areas) are boutiques owned by first generation immigrant families. They're hosed. When the suburban malls close, there will be live/work/play developments in their place and everything in those places are corporate owned.
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tadashi posted:Half of the stores in half of the malls I'm familiar with (the malls in older working class areas) are boutiques owned by first generation immigrant families. They're hosed. Lol you think that most dead malls are in places that people want to redevelop
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tadashi posted:Half of the stores in half of the malls I'm familiar with (the malls in older working class areas) are boutiques owned by first generation immigrant families. They're hosed. arcologies here we come
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