The way Retail is going with bankruptcies and cities with vacant commercial properties,
I'm wondering when we'll see the first US Museum dedicated to those bygone SHOPPING MALLS?
@Madken65 it was interesting when the empty shopping malls became homes to ghost kitchens during the pandemic, at least in the little town I was in.
@Madken65 You don't even see the seniors anymore at our local mall. About 1/3 of the stores are closed and the level of organized shoplifting is scary. I avoid that place like the plague.
Nothing at a mall that interests me. Lots of empty retail spaces and crappy chain restaurants.
Lindsay, My Lady, you are forgetting a fundamental US principle...
CITIZENS ARE NOTHING IF THEY ARE NOT CONSUMING. YOU MUST CONSUME.
How else will we keep corporate profits at record levels?
I’ve become a minimalist. If you move enough, you think long & hard before bringing more Chinese crap into your space.
I found an Eiffel Tower lamp base in our Free Room which I cleaned up for my Francophile DIL. Needed a lamp shade.
$80 on Amazon.
Kind of hoping she doesn’t like it.
Shopping malls are pretty much already museums to those bygone shopping malls, aren't they? 😂
In our area, a lot of the defunct big stores in malls and elsewhere are getting turned into indoor pickle ball courts.
@Madken65
I read that Dobbs-Frank prevented "too big to fail" banks from investing too much in commercial real estate... so they're OK now, per my understanding. Thankfully! But there are many smaller, regional banks that did invest in commercial real estate because the Dood Frank Act didn't apply to them, and many are currently in need of rescue. I hope people figure out what to do with all that commercial real estate!
@Madken65 Also I can't type. Sorry! Forgive the typos/autocorrect, am leaving for comedic value. 😂
I needed a small lampshade the other day.
My first choice would have been Tuesday Morning—now gone. Second choice Bed, Bath & Beyond—now gone.
Smaller retail chains bankrupted now pushes customers to larger chains. I was forced to buy from Target because I absolutely will not shop Walmart.
Amazon is taking over the retail world.
And where else can you drop off your senior citizen buds to do their daily walking?