Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Fri, Dec 02 2005
Why Do Malls Come in Only One Flavor?
Yesterday we took a rare trip to a mall in the San Jose area. Malls in recent years have had a tendency to hold stores that are much the same from place to place, which greatly lessens the whole mall appeal for me. What was nice yesterday was that we had our first major storm of the wet season, so once inside, a mall was preferable to outside stores as a shopping venue.
We opted out of the Santana Row stores I had been hoping to explore, because the storm winds were so strong that the open spaces between stores would have meant getting miserably wet and having to battle to keep purchases dry. We did drive through the area and noticed very few cars in the covered parking, which is located some distance from store entrances. If they can cover parking why can't they cover the walking path from store to store?
Crate and Barrel used to be in the mall but moved when Santana Row was built. They probably love the extra room they have and I'm sure it's a great store, but it just wasn't worth the hassle to me in this particular case.
. I've discussed the whole mall mentality with friends several times and we all seem to agree that the lack of unique stores from one mall to another keeps us away most of the time. But malls seem to flourish and grow anyway. I can only surmise that they are attempting to appeal to some other demographic group, particularly after seeing more than one store chain follow the lead of Abercrombie & Fitch by having one store for grown-ups and one for kids. (Ann Taylor actually had 3 different stores in this particular mall, the logic of which escapes me.) I think I'll go back to shopping online now&mdashwhere I can find unique items from all over the planet.
posted at: 07:43 | category: /Miscellaneous | link to this entry
Yesterday we took a rare trip to a mall in the San Jose area. Malls in recent years have had a tendency to hold stores that are much the same from place to place, which greatly lessens the whole mall appeal for me. What was nice yesterday was that we had our first major storm of the wet season, so once inside, a mall was preferable to outside stores as a shopping venue.
We opted out of the Santana Row stores I had been hoping to explore, because the storm winds were so strong that the open spaces between stores would have meant getting miserably wet and having to battle to keep purchases dry. We did drive through the area and noticed very few cars in the covered parking, which is located some distance from store entrances. If they can cover parking why can't they cover the walking path from store to store?
Crate and Barrel used to be in the mall but moved when Santana Row was built. They probably love the extra room they have and I'm sure it's a great store, but it just wasn't worth the hassle to me in this particular case.
. I've discussed the whole mall mentality with friends several times and we all seem to agree that the lack of unique stores from one mall to another keeps us away most of the time. But malls seem to flourish and grow anyway. I can only surmise that they are attempting to appeal to some other demographic group, particularly after seeing more than one store chain follow the lead of Abercrombie & Fitch by having one store for grown-ups and one for kids. (Ann Taylor actually had 3 different stores in this particular mall, the logic of which escapes me.) I think I'll go back to shopping online now&mdashwhere I can find unique items from all over the planet.
posted at: 07:43 | category: /Miscellaneous | link to this entry
