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Showing Original Post only (View all)The Mall Is Dead, And It's Taking Sbarro With It [View all]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/07/sbarro-bankruptcy_n_4913475.html?ir=BusinessSbarro is dealing with two challenges. First, customers appear to be cooling to pizza restaurants. Sales at U.S. pizza stores inched up from $36 billion in 2008 to just $38.3 billion in 2013, according to data compiled by EuroMonitor International. ....
Thats because most of its stores are in malls, places Americans dont really go any more. Theres even a whole blog, deadmalls.com, dedicated to our waning interest in those palaces of consumerism. Other restaurant chains that primarily operate in malls, like Hot Dog on a Stick, are suffering, too.
So what is going on, the Mall was touted as being the new Town Square where people went to hang out. They have been overbuilt and the Magnet stores have lost their appeal, but where do people hang out now. Online? Don't people still go out and get together? What do people see with this changing dynamic?
(About the Pizza, I live in NY and Pizza is doing fine, in fact there has been a boon in upscale personal pizza restaurants that are for the most part really good.
I think this article is referring to the fast food pizza chains, well they are utter crap and good riddance, maybe that will pave the way for some Mom and Pop Pizza places where people can experience real pizza.
Not what my post is about, but couldn't resist putting in my 2 cents)
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It already is... except they call them outdoor malls, not "lifestyle centers."
ScreamingMeemie
Mar 2014
#93
There's one in Estero, Fl. between Fort Myers and Naples that has condos available.
A HERETIC I AM
Mar 2014
#191
Interesting. Marketplaces have evolved over thousands of years and will continue >>>
KittyWampus
Mar 2014
#25
My local So Cal Outlets Centre (no weather problem, place is huge 160+ stores) is always packed...
Tikki
Mar 2014
#122
I think that's more of a developer "chichi" term. Here,it's an outdoor mall.
ScreamingMeemie
Mar 2014
#97
It is a marketing term...but it does indicate there may be more options than shopping.
Agschmid
Mar 2014
#106
That appears to be the standard. It is the same here and at the Mall at Partridge Creek.
ScreamingMeemie
Mar 2014
#114
The concept of The Mall is dying because Fat Americans don't want to walk...
Cooley Hurd
Mar 2014
#5
Yes it's called a lifestyle center, but I doubt it has much to do with trans fats.
Agschmid
Mar 2014
#15
I guess overpriced stores selling nothing anyone wanted had nothing to do with it.
hobbit709
Mar 2014
#9
The decline of the middle class causes the decline of malls and mid-priced restaurants nt
LiberalEsto
Mar 2014
#121
I guess overpriced stores selling nothing anyone wanted had nothing to do with it.
AlbertCat
Mar 2014
#75
I live in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom and close by I have two shockingly good pizza places
cali
Mar 2014
#17
I kinda liked malls. but some of the reasons i used to go to kill an afternoon are gone
KG
Mar 2014
#18
add to that no movie theater. Much of the fun has left the mall. It's now a splayed out shrine to
Ed Suspicious
Mar 2014
#59
retail outlets on Long Island are busy. Charter buses come from all over to them. They are huge>>>
KittyWampus
Mar 2014
#20
Nope, malls are dying because I can get pretty much whatever I want on Amazon,
Nye Bevan
Mar 2014
#31
Yes, the internet killed malls. And the changing culture of the 90s when the California malls
anneboleyn
Mar 2014
#176
I almost never go to a Mall or hardly any store anymore. As long as people are allowed
Bandit
Mar 2014
#44
On the main topic, I think what is going on is TV, the internet and video games.
merrily
Mar 2014
#66
What happened to "The Mall" followed what happened to "big box stores" as the town square searched..
MrMickeysMom
Mar 2014
#69
I could give you a whole list of reasons of why the malls are dying but I'm on my
mackerel
Mar 2014
#82
Never went to the mall as a kid but we have plenty of pizza here in Brooklyn.
hrmjustin
Mar 2014
#89
Thank God! The mall was one of the worst things to happen to America.
Drunken Irishman
Mar 2014
#142
LOL there are numerous references to the place in cartoons from the 40's on.
cherokeeprogressive
Mar 2014
#162
I was at a mall recently and everywhere there was a seating area there was a sign
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Mar 2014
#168