kinther@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoWhy you almost never see a clock at the mallthehustle.coexternal-linkmessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up1137arrow-down19cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans
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minus-squarejol@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·9 months agoIs this an American thing? Malls have never gone away and have always been full all my life.
minus-squareolav@theweird.spacelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·9 months ago@jol @billwashere They exist in the US but a lot of them are dead or dying. Among other things they have failed to innovate in the face of e-commerce so people can buy the same things without leaving home barring any other draw
minus-squarejol@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 months agoI guess this is related to the fact most Americans live in suburbs, so driving 40 minutes to the mall seems pretty inconvenient.
Is this an American thing? Malls have never gone away and have always been full all my life.
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@billwashere
They exist in the US but a lot of them are dead or dying. Among other things they have failed to innovate in the face of e-commerce so people can buy the same things without leaving home barring any other draw
I guess this is related to the fact most Americans live in suburbs, so driving 40 minutes to the mall seems pretty inconvenient.