How U.S. Malls Survived The Death Of Department Stores

The Mall need to evolve to be more of an entertainment hub then endless shopping

Funny thing is the original architect behind malls, Victor Gruen, intended them to be community centers not just shopping...so this adaptation is actually them going back to their original intent

Another thing that is impacting mall recovery is location. Where regional malls have mostly recovered their patrons, downtown malls have not.

Worked for Sears 18-23 (08-2014) When I quit, the store closed within a year and a half later at the mall I was working at. Sears didn’t want to adapt to the changes of online shopping really

Indoor malls aren't dead; they are readjusting to the demand. In most U.S. cities that have decent economies and where crime isn't too high, they normally have at least one or maybe up to two indoor malls in their area that are performing well. The rest in their area are dying because they aren't needed anymore. In my city in the early 90s, we used to have six indoor malls in my area. Two have died in the past 15 years and were eventually demolished, two were combined into one and is currently performing decent, one is in hospice care economically, and the last one is honestly doing very well to this day.

"American need for retail therapy"? Or, as George Carlin put it, buying the stuff you don't need with the money you don't have.

I think malls should focus on bringing in new smaller stores from local vendors to try and allow more competition.

Essentially, American malls are getting Asian-ized. Malls in many Asian countries, especially South East Asia, are a place for many experiences, from shopping, to eating out, groceries, movies, entertainment, games, sports, fitness, residential apartments on top of the mall, etc.

3:27 wait how old is this footage if radioshack is in it?

Sure malls may still be alive after their department store limbs are being chopped off, but that doesn't mean they aren't still bleeding out a slow death. Companies stopped being competitive, prices are outrageous, they are killing themselves.

On Asia country all The Mall is huge and survive because they're all ONE STOP SERVICE, people don't have to drive and go difference places to done all things ... in The Mall they include everything you can imagine. they all included ---> multiple Bank + Super Market / Hyper market + Theater + Restaurants + cloths + fun park + Clinics (Skin clinic, Spa etc) + etc.

I work in a dying mall and it’s pretty sad looking at so many stores closed.

The King of Prussia Mall is a higher-end mall just outside of Philadelphia is huge and it’s still growing!

People are getting poorer while department stores offer Amazon products at higher prices. No wonder malls are struggling.

How about we build mixed-use walkable neighborhoods again where residential and commercial spaces can co-exist rather than continuing to build these tacky enclosures of consumerism surrounded by a parking moat?

When Chilean department store Falabella left the Argentinian market, some experts predicted it would be a death sentence to the malls those stores were in. However, most of those malls have not only survived but are thriving in their post-Falabella era. That retail space has been replaced by coffee shops, larger pharmacies, medical services, gyms or more movie theaters. One good example is Córdoba's Nuevocentro Shopping, in Central Argentina.

My local Mall still has Sears, JCPenney and Macy’s opened

Every mall needs to have a residential and hotel space. From what I’ve observed, the ones that don’t are usually empty and have very little foot traffic.

I like being able to try on my clothes before buying but malls are still on the decline for the most part.

5:33 No way do 40% people visit a mall every two weeks, right? Unless the mall happens to be where you get your groceries, I guess.