We’ve seen some comments asking if this video was sponsored by Netflix or Stranger Things. It was not! We were inspired by the upcoming release to do a video about dead malls - and so we talked about the show in the video. WIRED will ALWAYS indicate when any of our videos have been sponsored - both in an onscreen title card as well as in our description box. Thanks for all your feedback!
@chillpaintings5 жыл бұрын
I don't want malls to close! :-(
@rulindachatt5 жыл бұрын
If it wasn’t an ad for stranger things Netflix just got a bunch of free advertising. Just watched this with three other people who all simultaneously laughed about heavy handed the obvious Netflix sponsorship was.
@gobblemeswallowme15 жыл бұрын
2x speed
@GratiaCountryman5 жыл бұрын
One mall where I live, Ballston Common, has been torn down and converted to a traditional business district called Ballston Quarter.
@Larou65 жыл бұрын
S T R A N G E R T H I N G S. You have to know that when you repeat something over and over again, it sticks inside the head of people. If you want to share information, dont repete stuff even if you like it. You need to understand the weight of your words on people. I think it was so far related plus, it was taking us out of the real message of the video. It may not have been sponsored but you use the show to give exposure to your content so it is all the same. You can not say it is not sponsored because you really just are the sponser of netflix in this story. I'm angry because what you do is usually alright but not this.
@AngryKittens5 жыл бұрын
Meanwhile, malls in the Philippines are thriving and typically gigantic, for one simple reason: air con. P.S. That means AC in Americanish. (-‸ლ)
@necrokochou5 жыл бұрын
lol true. palamig muna lmao
@damedesuka775 жыл бұрын
Yep, same here in Indonesia. It's super hot all day all year round, the only place people could hang around comfortably with friends/family is well, the malls. That's why some mall are even decorated to emulate the looks of an outside location (a hanging garden, some European highstreet, a row of fancy cafes, and so on) Malls in the western countries are super plain looking in comparison.
@GabTheAce5 жыл бұрын
Same in Mexico hahaha
@pad9x5 жыл бұрын
yup. in places with less than ideal climates, malls are still a sort of town square place.
@iloveporkandchicken47185 жыл бұрын
Well not 4 long
@nataliaardoise77565 жыл бұрын
Turn them into apartments. Keep most of the retro mall chic, add more plants and indoor pools. People would appreciate the aesthetic.
@LouisSubearth5 жыл бұрын
You'd probably have to turn mall grounds into mixed use, but it's completely possible. Though I'd use the whole mall land and build a superstructure, replace the parking lots with one or two multi-story parking buildings, and build a vertical city instead.
@starzzzy225 жыл бұрын
Yes! I've said a thousand times that old malls could be apartments or even schools depending on how the building is re-imagined. I hate to see these large buildings sit empty. It just seems so wasteful.
@LouisSubearth5 жыл бұрын
@@starzzzy22 It doesn't seem wasteful, it is wasteful. We dedicate way too much space for suburban development that could be used in different ways such as agricultural, nature reserves, parks, etc.
@eddgrs91935 жыл бұрын
Have you seen Dredd (2012) ?
@LaFemme5605 жыл бұрын
A huge multilevel neighborhood. Brilliant.
@z.deutch13345 жыл бұрын
*Reasons:* Online shopping convenience People are busy working Middle class income shrinking Social media & social isolation Online gaming, Netflix, Uber Eats Minimalism Demographic changes Lower suburban investment
@rachelc.54634 жыл бұрын
You got it! All of the above.
@smokescreen21464 жыл бұрын
@@rachelc.5463 Wrong, malls in low income suburbs are thriving. Can't try clothes online. Social media sucks. Online gaming overrated.
@beepboop35404 жыл бұрын
Yes. One more reason is that so many more people, particularly younger generations are rejecting capitalism and are also generally underpaid and have little to no expendable income
@richardmadden87424 жыл бұрын
@@beepboop3540 Also they can't borrow like they used to do.
@factsvsfeelings53234 жыл бұрын
Smoke screen yes you are wrong. Clothes can be returned online gaming is suceeding (That is just a fact) your likement of it is irrelvant
@SamVillano5 жыл бұрын
Legit thought I’d clicked on the wrong video with that intro about stranger things
@merdelune95 жыл бұрын
S. V. Villano same! And I haven't even seen the show
@nibirue5 жыл бұрын
Same!
@SolarControlFilms5 жыл бұрын
ditto
@Moepowerplant5 жыл бұрын
Almost thought it was an ad.
@Andres23K5 жыл бұрын
Moepowerplant it is an ad
@tedsomerville5 жыл бұрын
Malls could be community centers with gyms, libraries, studios and galleries like the SESCs in Brazil. So much potential.
@One-Headlight5 жыл бұрын
Except for the people who want to turn them into churches. America has too many churches...
@CJ-im2uu5 жыл бұрын
A closed mall in the midwest became. HS after a tornado took out the HS. Mini malls have been turned into ES schools.
@subtitledEN5 жыл бұрын
@@CJ-im2uu what's HS and ES? (I'm not American)
@johnwang99145 жыл бұрын
The professor describes what could be done with these malls at 7:27. If the neighborhood is thriving with high employment, they build apartments on top of the malls and keep some shops turning them into a more modern downtown. If the neighborhood isn't thriving which it usually isn't, community uses such as schools, churches, community centers or just referencing them back to parklands and wetlands. I suspect we won't see a lot of changes till autonomous vehicles whether in private vehicles, ride hailing services or PRT removes the need for large parking lots as removing the parking lots recovers a lot of real estate. Ultimately, what path the mall will take would be the most profitable for their owners despite what we would like to see.
@BodaciousWench5 жыл бұрын
MrZaz3 high school.
@laurav84324 жыл бұрын
She said a quarter of US malls will close in 2022.. that was probably achieved in 2020
@overthecounterbeanie4 жыл бұрын
Hey she said *by* 2022 so she's still technically right!
@marcello42584 жыл бұрын
no one knew corona will accelerate the faith back then... haha
@martainroth25884 жыл бұрын
I was going to say the same thing.
@Tampa01234567894 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@dw99323 жыл бұрын
Well actually it’s been like this since the mid 2000s
@oneryanalexander5 жыл бұрын
40% of Americans have no savings and live paycheck to paycheck. Wages have been flat for decades while the cost of living has risen. Could be a factor.
@nicolewilkin46965 жыл бұрын
Yes this is the major factor. Wages for most Americans peaked in 70-80s the hey-dey of the mall. They even said malls were starting to falter in the 90s -before online shopping boomed to what it is now. Then folks saying their malls are doing fine are all located in thriving coastal cities not the economically depressed majority of the country. Then other comments are saying malls are taking off in Asia/china.... again places where their middle class buying power is clearly booming. Over saturation and online shopping are minor factors, but average americans losing buying power is clearly the major player.
@BuffdaddyJamal5 жыл бұрын
Wages can't increase with the nonstop flow of immigrants into the country, legal or otherwise. "Jobs Americans won't do" more like jobs Americans aren't willing to do for slave wages, while on the other hand 3rd world migrants will do those jobs (not well) for a fraction of the cost.
@foxbodyblues67095 жыл бұрын
Buffdaddy Jamal ^^^ truth ^^^^
@robertgronewold33265 жыл бұрын
@@BuffdaddyJamalWages keep being capped though. According to inflation, the minimum wage should be about $20 an hour now, in accordance to it's value when it began. Which means your average college educated person should be getting about $40 to $50 an hour. We've tried to hold back inflation with our own wages for so many decades that it's now hitting us all really hard. I know you can't just keep printing money and giving more and more in paychecks, but it's become much to low for your average American to just live day to day.
@TristanisAwesome1235 жыл бұрын
I was really disappointed they didn't address this in the video. Another factor I would point to is the decay of American suburbs. I don't have any statistics off the top of my head, but I remember reading that suburban homes are losing value, suburban poverty is increasing, and suburban infrastructure is falling apart. Since the prosperity of suburbia is what fueled malls in the first place, its decay is bringing about their end. I wish they would have brought that up in the video because I think it is important for Americans to know that the American Dream is not what it used to be and that the future of this country isn't suburbia and mall culture but cities and main-street economies.
@publicguy16645 жыл бұрын
Biggest reason malls are dying you completely forgot, c'mon Wired, you're smarter than that. *THE DEATH OF THE MIDDLE CLASS* is the biggest reason.
@KotsarisGR5 жыл бұрын
She didn't forget. Everyone knows that capitalism and the destruction of the lower classes is to blame. They will never say it because their sponsors/owners won't like that.
@okamijubei5 жыл бұрын
Sweet mother of Celestia, you're right
@cuzz635 жыл бұрын
Its not true. The internet is killing retail, not just malls.
@TristanisAwesome1235 жыл бұрын
And to be more specific, the death of the suburban middle class whose prosperity fueled the growth of malls in the first place
@cuzz635 жыл бұрын
Baby Boomers are dying off.
@gn26654 жыл бұрын
Host: “A quarter of malls will close by 2022” COVID19 March 2020: “hold my drink”...
@potatopotatoeOG4 жыл бұрын
It's been held
@denelson835 жыл бұрын
Old malls never really die… They just get de-mall-ished.
@marieblade06135 жыл бұрын
🤭🤭🤭
@AngelPandaEarth4 жыл бұрын
This is something my brother would say... ...if he was interested in dead malls.
@Pau_Pau94 жыл бұрын
Or s-mall-er
@jimdavis23854 жыл бұрын
I'll groan a bit, but that was clever.
@jakaalatas89384 жыл бұрын
*_ba dum tss_*
@ronalcasid38445 жыл бұрын
I believe Amazon has turned a couple malls into distribution centers. Is that ironic?
@minecraftminertime5 жыл бұрын
No. Amazon is taking over.
@tdreamgmail5 жыл бұрын
Amazon stretches its tentacles far and wide consuming everything in its path. Distribution centers act as gestation pods to give birth to new plagues
@mcrettable5 жыл бұрын
@@minecraftminertime Governments really need to put a ceiling on these companies. It gets out of hands and absurd.
@femmeNikita275 жыл бұрын
What strikes and shocks non-USA citizens probably is seeing those large, empty building and at the same time watching and reading about USA citizens living inside their cars, or at hotel rooms payed by the hour or even on street due to huge rent prices they cannot afford and seeing those well-preserved buldings which are no longer being used, empty, habitable, occupying huge part of public space and simple left there to rot and serve no purpose. To many people living outside of USA looking at something like this seems plain crazy. Not to mention that USA version of capitalism tends to lecture the rest of the globe on democracy and efficiency. How on earth is this democratic or efficient? It's just the most irrational waste of money, public space and raw materials anyone can ever imagine. Knowing that in some cities money has to spend to treat certain diseases simply becuase people live on the streets out of poverty and later on seeing a location like this that could actually house such people to at least lower social cost of certain diseases spread due to access to toilets and possibilty to wash hands more frequently really can leave many people worldwide speachless. Yes, there are dead malls in Europe for example. And guess what? They are being repurposed. They are not left empty, locked down to rot. People use them.
@campkira5 жыл бұрын
It don't matter.
@mugglescakesniffer39434 жыл бұрын
Amazon is eyeing those malls for distribution centers.
@benjamins76644 жыл бұрын
you were right!!
@kathryncarter61434 жыл бұрын
I bet
@LazyPirate84 жыл бұрын
Why can't amazon turn those malls to a premier amazon center so people can buy stuff and hang out, like a mall.
@antoniobrooks11133 жыл бұрын
@@LazyPirate8 that would mean a corporation actually cares about the joy of its consumers, would never happen. That’s why malls are dead and gone
@may.d.a.y5 жыл бұрын
im blown away that they ignore the glaring fact that the demographic malls were designed for just cant freaking afford to spend the money to keep them open
@thetman00685 жыл бұрын
Ikr? Not to mention all the stuff sold in malls these days is disposable crap.
@Drazer0125 жыл бұрын
And most malls ( at least around here) are 95% clothing stores with nothing interesting in them at all.
@Ripplenator5 жыл бұрын
Malls located in more up-scale places where people (still) have money are doing well. Malls located in economically depressed places are not doing well or are closing.
@wulfone59615 жыл бұрын
Everyone ignores that.
@fghghgvh5 жыл бұрын
The same demographic that buys the newest iPhone every year and the Supreme brick that was literally an expensive brick with the name Supreme on it?
@4000Wiggins5 жыл бұрын
This feels more like a Stranger Things advertisement. She keeps bringing it up when there really is no need to.
@xensonar96525 жыл бұрын
Maybe that's what inspired the video.
@patrickqin5 жыл бұрын
Wired gets more clicks/likes if it taps into the Stranger Things fans
@Ryan-pg1tw5 жыл бұрын
If she wants to she can do it
@invalidcode5 жыл бұрын
@@patrickqin but they really missed chance to put stranger things in the thumbnail or the title.
@campkira5 жыл бұрын
Netflix money...
@TheHigherVoltage4 жыл бұрын
Malls are dying largely because the middle classes' disposable income is vanishing.
@kylehill36434 жыл бұрын
What they have been doing is turning htem into ugly strip malls. In Bend Oregon they had a really nice mall Mountain View Mall and now it's this ugly strip mall. Keizer Station is this weird figure 8 thing where you have to drive all over the place and you never know which side your going to be on either so chances are you have to DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN!!!!
@kylehill36434 жыл бұрын
Liberals were trying to make it be like Southern Europe without the right climate nor demographics. They just did their knee circle buzz words and partying instead of their homework or they'd have realized this and immediately halted these projects. The ZCMI mall suffered the same fate in SLC Utah though they did an ugly remodel before tearing it all down.
@kylehill36434 жыл бұрын
ZCMI used to be a VERY unique mall with gold elevators in a basement hallway. I was very little so only have vague memories but I remember the ZCMI mall was in two buildings so you'd go either outside or an underground hallway with these gold elevators. The mall was eventually remodeled and looked like any other big city mall before being torn down. We went in April for my birthday and it was SO cold going between the buildings at night.
@metalox884 жыл бұрын
Obamacare wiped out a lot of money people made during a year.
@TheHigherVoltage4 жыл бұрын
@@metalox88 huh? hows that suppose to make sense?
@sadmancho5 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: The mall in the show is the Gwinnett Mall in Duluth GA. It is a dying mall in real life.
@lyriccaraphernelia5 жыл бұрын
FACTSSSS
@LazarusSlade5 жыл бұрын
Huh...kinda like Duluth GA. Itself. Both are dying. So quaint.
@Fstop3135 жыл бұрын
Really. I remember that mall. That's sad.
@neya2925 жыл бұрын
Dang.
@KinzuNight5 жыл бұрын
Last time I was in that Mall it looked like a great place to film a zombie apocalypse because it was so abandoned. It does have a great Korean Mega Mart, but that's about it now.
@MashiroShiina5 жыл бұрын
US: Malls are dying ASIA: Malls are everywhere
@ChrsLee785 жыл бұрын
NJ: Our malls aren’t going anywhere.
@WordsofHarmony5 жыл бұрын
Christopher Lee NYC just opened Hudson Yards
@ChrsLee785 жыл бұрын
American Dream Mall is opening in a few months at the Meadowlands. That thing is supposed to be just slightly smaller than the Mall of America.
@insaneone43695 жыл бұрын
Thank you Bill Clinton.
@lameduck16905 жыл бұрын
@@WordsofHarmony Hudson Yards isn't a mall.
@mceggalds58534 жыл бұрын
I wish I was a teenager in the eighties messing around with my friends and having fun. :/
@hazelwood552 жыл бұрын
That's what killed the malls.
@dbrice715 жыл бұрын
How about low cost apartments with parks and a grocery store? Perfect use for a dead mall.
@Kiwionwing5 жыл бұрын
Yes I agree even in New Zealand some are dying Make them into small compact towns. High security, able to walk around day or night
@goyod65 жыл бұрын
They repurposed an abandoned mall in Philadelphia and turned the 2nd and 3rd floors into micro appartments. The first floor is coffee shops,boutiques, and restaurants
@Moepowerplant5 жыл бұрын
Kiwionwing morton A 21st century Catal Huyuk (however it's actually spelled in Turkish).
@Kiwionwing5 жыл бұрын
@@Moepowerplant lost me Could you explain Saliden was last Turkish global leader And he was Kurdish
@lilyl.67155 жыл бұрын
Moepowerplant oof I haven’t heard that name since my ninth grade western civ class
@emmabrook96915 жыл бұрын
Is it called THE MALL because instead of going to one store you go to THEM ALL
@gaurav_bora_5 жыл бұрын
lovely
@TheStarBlack5 жыл бұрын
No
@gaurav_bora_5 жыл бұрын
@@TheStarBlack okay
@pj123xyz5 жыл бұрын
Makes perfect sense
@SurprisinglyDeep5 жыл бұрын
(Insert laugh track)
@geslinam97034 жыл бұрын
It scares me, this whole social media loneliness thing. At our Christmas gathering last year I went to see what the kids were doing...when I was young, me and my cousins would be outside or in the basement playing, or sitting around talking and laughing...I listened outside my niece’s bedroom door, nothing but dead silence...I opened the door and all 8 of them were piled on the bed - each one absorbed in their cell phones. Not talking, not interacting...just looking at their phones. It’s so odd.
@jessykapop5 жыл бұрын
It’s because the rents are too expensive for small retailers and consumers are sick of big Corp.
@sleepyearth5 жыл бұрын
@stryfetc1 Amazon is basically small retailers under one big corp. P.s. what i meant is that Amazon is an online shopping mall. It has almost the same concept as a physical mall.
@seraphthecreator5 жыл бұрын
Have you seen the S&P price? Big Corps have never had it so good
@CC-si3cr5 жыл бұрын
@@megaswenson Good Lord! Who hurt you? I have never had an aggressive experience in a mall with young undesireables.
@daneclark31615 жыл бұрын
@@megaswenson - That sure sounds racist to me...
@DJ_Force5 жыл бұрын
Yes, no one likes Big Corp! No wonder Apple and Netflix and Facebook and Google are almost bankrupt.
@PillowEgg5 жыл бұрын
80's: Malls killing small stores. 2010's: Online shopping is killing malls. Malls are being converted to warehouses.
@TheUtuber9995 жыл бұрын
Except online shopping isn't really what's killing malls. It's the lack of disposable income.
@TaushaTW5 жыл бұрын
Online shopping keeps getting the blame. By the time you pay shipping you should have gone to the store.
@Laladust5 жыл бұрын
And hospitals. I'm not American. But I'm married to one and spend part of the year in the states. The mall directly near our house in the states was torn down and rebuilt as an extension to the local hospital. I swear there's 12 different extensions to this one hospital in this one town that's not big enough to be called a city. It's borderline suburbs. More people are getting sick.
@Michael-lc8yl5 жыл бұрын
next: VR shopping kills physical shopping
@effexon5 жыл бұрын
when did malls become huge? journalists are comparing and almost laughing how tiny 80s malls were... with size comes cost and risk. Even now every mall has to be the biggest in the country etc. Nobody is really thinking how to get shops. And same year they are building several malls in same city. Which already has many. So I cant anything good word for it, just MLM comes to mind.
@stevej.14284 жыл бұрын
What really wasn't covered was the fall of large retail chains like Sears, JCPenny, Macy's, etc. that bookended many of these malls and were their primary source of income before leaving. If you could get all inclusive box stores like Walmart and Target to take over the empty retail space these stores left behind, Malls would probably survive much easier, but these "buy everything you need here" retail giants are anti-mall by design, and want you only shopping in their stores for everything, so it wouldn't benefit them to give you an option of buying something there, and then walking down the corridor and getting something at another nearby retailer.
@laurasmith10784 жыл бұрын
Our Targets are all in malls.
@jamesmedina20624 жыл бұрын
Laura Smith Yes I have seen one Target connected to a mall but Walmarts are gigantic and simply too big to be attached to a mall
@DAatDA4 жыл бұрын
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@dandeleon27644 жыл бұрын
Target and Walmart even sell food now too. You can buy clothes, electronics, toys, toiletries, ect. Remember when Amazon used to just sell books? Lol, these companies have become monopolies.
@stephanierando34774 жыл бұрын
Agreed. Also what wasn't discussed was why the former anchors failed. Online shopping had very little to do the failure of anchor stores. Crippling debt is the major factor in that. The death knell for malls happened in the crash of 2008, after 30 years of mergers and acquisitions, major department stores couldn't afford the debt they acquired making those mergers. Department stores began to close, and with their closure, malls were left with huge amounts of square footage and nothing to put in those stores place. Even if you could get someone in there, the costs to re open a dead anchor space is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
@TidOwObiT5 жыл бұрын
*WIRED:* "Malls are dying" *Philippines:* Laughs in Filipino
@TidOwObiT5 жыл бұрын
BUGZES ...but Visayans love malls too
@EvaUnit_015 жыл бұрын
1234coolman malls are thriving in the Philippines and are the de facto hangout for EVERYONE. It’s a tropical climate & AC is free at the mall
@terrygoh80175 жыл бұрын
Malaysia also tag along😂
@cheesecakelasagna5 жыл бұрын
Relatable, have a nice day.
@AllTheArtsy5 жыл бұрын
Just goes to show that our social and financial situation is about 30 years behind
@notYisan5 жыл бұрын
why not convert them into offices, daycare, learning centers and food court rolled into one?
@merdelune95 жыл бұрын
Albert Budi check out Landmark Mall redevelopment in Alexandria, VA. The city actually asked the community for input what to do with the space. Also, the mall served as a set last year for the upcoming Wonder Woman movie
@insaneone43695 жыл бұрын
Because that's job creation. They don't like job creation in this country. The democrats and republicans decided years ago that if we have the luxury of a constitution and human rights we therefore do not deserve stable jobs nor a substantial economy. Noam Chomsky breaks it down in Requiem For The American Dream. Free online!
@cycoekiller1195 жыл бұрын
Did you mean: Singapore malls
@rifter0x00005 жыл бұрын
zenubi One of the malls shown in this video was turned into a school.
@areyoujelton5 жыл бұрын
Have you heard about our lord and savior, Stranger Things?
@blondthought51754 жыл бұрын
The only reason I miss malls is because my life was better back then. It's a nostalgia thing.
@MajorGeneralVeers5 жыл бұрын
Correction: Why malls in the US are dying. It would be more informative to compare American malls to Asian malls.
@cristiangamboa20375 жыл бұрын
Americans have no idea that the rest of the world exist.
@KaguyaHimex5 жыл бұрын
I'm actually finishing a year abroad in Japan, and one of the things that shocked me as an American is that... Malls are very much NOT dying here. Every mall I've been to has been packed, usually without any empty storefronts.
@MajorGeneralVeers5 жыл бұрын
@@KaguyaHimex Also malls in Asia have higher quality stuff in general.
@merchantfan5 жыл бұрын
@@MajorGeneralVeers I think that's part of it- if I go to the mall and most of the stuff there is junk, I won't want to go back. Half the time it's super hard to find basics and half the shirts for women will have weird frills sewed on them
@JosephDeLosSantos-t3m5 жыл бұрын
true, here in Asia, wherever mall you are, it's packed with people, even on a holiday
@robjef6225 жыл бұрын
I'm only 21 and I still remember how when I was a kid the malls in my area used to be jam-packed all the time and were places people went to hang out. Now it's practically a vacant ghost town. All of that chatter, footsteps, and laughter has been replaced with complete silence. It's quite sad, really.
@Shablimbles5 жыл бұрын
I'm 18 and I remember when malls were packed
@marygreenway4855 жыл бұрын
Part of why I don't like the mall now is that it's so empty. If I'm there shopping alone without friends or family, it's almost disturbing.
@Cyberspine5 жыл бұрын
50,000 people used to live here. Now it's a ghost town.
@nahimiYT5 жыл бұрын
I'm 18 and they are still packed. It depends on the city and the mall itself really.
@chelsey87375 жыл бұрын
Yeah same. Im 17 and i remember being 8 9 10 and spending 8 hours at the mall shopping and eating. It was always packed and always fun. Now they are a little creepy bc they are so silent
@danzigvssartre3 жыл бұрын
1970: Knock down the trees, build a mall. 2020: Knock down the mall, plant some trees.
@ihavenoideawhatimdoing43 жыл бұрын
2022: knock down the trees and build flying cars
@TreeLobsterGuy5 жыл бұрын
I was really interested in the topic of the death of malls, but that lady just kept bringing up stranger things and it felt more like an advertisement than an intellectual conversation. Why was stranger things even involved in this video???
@racafritz4 жыл бұрын
Angelic Boy Um, it takes place in the 80’s.
@RawloftheDead4 жыл бұрын
I know right?
@_Bosley5 жыл бұрын
This feels like a Commercial for Stranger Things. That could've been left out..... unless they were a secret sponsor?
@qsqzqz5 жыл бұрын
Bosley did you even watch it? They hardly speak about stranger things after the first few minutes
@RefinerSimilitude5 жыл бұрын
It seems to me like they were using the show's popularity to create more interest in the topic. The vitality most malls enjoyed in the time the show portrays is also relevant and may help some younger folks understand the changes malls have undergone too. They symbolism drawn at the end of the vid was nice too. It takes me back to my high school AP English classes.
@noodles12915 жыл бұрын
Bosley I think it was just a ploy for views
@kevinbooth-5 жыл бұрын
@Vulas Helefaren no... it's really not...
@JoanieTiVi5 жыл бұрын
More so the opposite. Everybody is talking about stranger things so they use that hype for their video.
@chrisjohnell26854 жыл бұрын
I literally buy everything online now. Malls to me are just a hangout spot for kids.
@wlonsdale14 жыл бұрын
Most people don't play video games on their basement
@no404 жыл бұрын
......and thus malls need to have interactive places for the youth to be preoccupied with.
@rockycomet45874 жыл бұрын
The mall in my town is the hangout for twenty and thirty year olds who live with their parents.
@user-dv2hc8zt3o4 жыл бұрын
Kids don't even hang out at the malls anymore.
@MetalMarauder4 жыл бұрын
Kids don’t hang out at malls much either
@hcblue5 жыл бұрын
No one: WIRED: Here's why malls are dying… Everyone: oh, cool, I wonder if it's online shopping! _click_ WIRED: btw, Stranger Things season 3 will have malls. Malls will be in Stranger Things season 3. Stranger Things feature malls in season 3! OMG won't season 3 of Stranger Things be so exciting? Everyone: 😒😒😒
@Lilapurple1115 жыл бұрын
Best comment
@randomcharacter65015 жыл бұрын
This is exactly what happened 😂
@adondriel5 жыл бұрын
I mean, I LOVE stranger things, but yea... it seems kinda... irrelevant to the topic at hand to force ST3 into this video, when the only connection is that "it has a mall in it"
@areyoujelton5 жыл бұрын
She is the only person I have ever seen that excited for a show with a mall.
@goodolarchie5 жыл бұрын
Let's try to shift the conversation back to Stranger Things™, featuring David Harbour as the lovable Jim Hopper
@Jen-cj2br5 жыл бұрын
I stopped going to the mall because the aggressive sales people at the kiosks made me too anxious
@Happinesstoyou5 жыл бұрын
Jen absolutely!! I was going to say the same thing!
@davidlericain5 жыл бұрын
Me too. I stay clear and will never go back.
@robertgronewold33265 жыл бұрын
Oh god yes. I remember last time I was in one, a man was forcing this expensive face cream at my mom, and would not take no for an answer until I literally dragged her away. I miss the days of malls just having art and phone stalls in the middle of them.
@PrimiusLovin5 жыл бұрын
Yes, those can be very annoying, some really believe they can sell you anything!!
@jahrules86745 жыл бұрын
Tell em "GTF outta my face."
@jameswatson50114 жыл бұрын
Malls were the social media of there day before the internet. There is a sharp decline in the suburban middle class. Why couldn't these old malls be retro fitted as living space?
@UzumakiNaruto_4 жыл бұрын
@Johnny Tramain I live in Toronto and up here all the major mall owners here are pouring in hundreds of millions of dollars to renovate and expand many malls in the city. Seems like malls at least in some parts of the world are still thriving and plenty of people aren't abandoning them which is good.
@microbios85864 жыл бұрын
Living space? No. Suburban shopping malls are not aesthetically pleasing. They are almost always big boxes surrounded by a sea of parking lots next to highways. Nobody wants to live in such a soulless place.
@mzamroni5 жыл бұрын
Robin Sparkles says let's go to the mall today
@Amigps015 жыл бұрын
The mall close to where I live is *thriving* so I can definitely see how it depends on location.
@BralonThompson5 жыл бұрын
Same here the mall where Im at has a huge parking lot and is letting resturants build on the outskirts of it.
@lordharambe46535 жыл бұрын
Aren't upscale or high end malls thriving? I know malls in tropical countries are thriving all because they have AC and outside is very hot.
@tychay5 жыл бұрын
Assuming you are in the United States, unless your area experienced explosive growth (downtown city, new exurb in a growing metropolitan, etc.) that mall probably canibalized one to three other malls that serviced the same area that were there 15-30 years ago (as alluded to in the video). Also the malls today are nothing like the malls of the 1980's and 1990's. Not only were they insanely crowded pre-cell-phone gathering places and town squares like in the movie "Mall Rats." Today's malls, even busy ones, are optimized for spending money. For instance, the mall in the show Stranger Things had carpet in the hallways! Modern malls use marble to reflect as much sound as possible which drives your subconcious self to enter an (often carpeted) store with softer music and signatures scents.
5 жыл бұрын
i was understanding that the mall where you live, closed, lol.
@cantthinkofaname50465 жыл бұрын
Malls in huge cities seem to be thriving
@frankdalla4 жыл бұрын
Too much merchandise in one place with too little money in ones pocket.
@icecreamforcrowhurst3 жыл бұрын
But it’s not just too much merchandise, it’s BAD merchandise that nobody wants.
@JasonB8084 жыл бұрын
Covid-19. Malls were dying but I am the nail in the coffin.
@squamish42444 жыл бұрын
And this was before the pandemic. Crazy.
@DarrenEggleston5 жыл бұрын
Other cultures and countries have old ruins, castles and temples. Abandoned buildings are the ruins of our young culture.
@Mathew19_265 жыл бұрын
Hundreds of abandoned buildings in the suburbs, and thousands of abandoned people on the streets... If only there was a way of connecting the dots.
@007Julie5 жыл бұрын
1234coolman I know right? Very insightful.
@007Julie5 жыл бұрын
Dylan Nanayakkara if only. The government and powers that be, would never allow it.
@Mathew19_265 жыл бұрын
@@007Julie Sure, it would cost money to relocate them in the first place, but, if they got the homeless back on their feet and contributing in the economy, the government could enjoy greater tax revenues and the "powers that be"... well they could enjoy a more robust economy. It seems like a win-win-win to me.
@NinetooNine5 жыл бұрын
Your right.. But you need to mention Stranger Things to get more likes!
@kevinvasquez69795 жыл бұрын
This video did not need the Stranger Things plug
@heyborttheeditor16085 жыл бұрын
Kevin Vasquez yeah, you think they paid for it? That’s a weird product placement
@muche63215 жыл бұрын
Interesting, I looked at it the other way; them trying to tap into the Stranger Things hype to teach the fans something about the history and the future of malls.
@CC-si3cr5 жыл бұрын
100% agree! This woman is some sort of super fan of that show. She talked about it for a full minute before the real meat and potatoes of the topic started. Then closed the video with saying she hopes the professor tunes in for the new season. Ugh! So annoying!!
@OMGWTFLOLSMH5 жыл бұрын
I've never seen the show and so I skipped past that part. Seemed like a plug to me.
@BrandonEsparza045 жыл бұрын
I just started the season and so I thought it actually fit really well. I liked the connection
@njm32114 жыл бұрын
Malls didn't sell anything I wanted as a mature adult. Many neighborhoods could no longer support them due to flattening incomes and thus the advent of Walmart, Dollar Tree, etc..
@jamesedinger49564 жыл бұрын
I agree...malls never offered me anything I wanted once I left my teen years
@Johnnybomb13 жыл бұрын
@@jamesedinger4956 Even during the heyday of the American mall (80s-90s), the stores were mostly for teenage girls, young women, and families. If I had to take a guess, you're a single male without children, right ? If so, it makes perfect sense why you wouldn't shop there. lol
@sdgsdsdgsdg5 жыл бұрын
I'm confused. Is there a mall in stranger things
@darith7705 жыл бұрын
Chris Sanchez Gwinnett place mall in Georgia
@SurprisinglyDeep5 жыл бұрын
In the upcoming 3rd season, part of the plot is a mall opening up in the small town that previously never had a mall
@user-xg6zz8qs3q5 жыл бұрын
LMAO can’t you tell he’s joking!? Anyways, YES
@EpicKate5 жыл бұрын
HAAAA!
@gregsaltis16615 жыл бұрын
You're confused? I missed the Stranger Things stuff. MUST .... LEARN .... TO .... FO .... c .... u ....
@jog53414 жыл бұрын
Every county in every State in the USA needs Assisted Living Centers and all of these Malls could be refurbished to help with the huge shortage of beds issue for the elderly and upcoming baby boomers.
@jonsumner13824 жыл бұрын
plus I could see that could bring back some of the culture. Living near each other if done right the could spear on culture in that community. Around me a lot of old schools are being turned into senior senior living facilities
@CaptApril1234 жыл бұрын
That would be ironic..the teenagers that used to hang out at the malls in the 1970's and 80's end up literally retiring in them..
@rataflechera4 жыл бұрын
The baby boomers. The generation that was born with the suburbia, grew up to make the malls and now would get into those repurposed malls as ALC. Kind of looks like some tale to be told.
@celticandpenobscot86583 жыл бұрын
Also: affordable housing for young families, such as they are.
@markopolozoomanitty65744 жыл бұрын
The irony of dead malls emptiness is the energy they once held.
@yourbossismyslave34094 жыл бұрын
Yep. Another irony is seeing shopping carts, the emblem of consumerism, being used to transport the worldly goods and\or waste of underclass street people
@jacekicksass3 жыл бұрын
Good point. It's the contrast of 'then vs now' which I find so fascinating... it's hard to put my finger on it
@dismemberedlamb91042 жыл бұрын
Turning these into apartments would be dope
@taylorbarnett11995 жыл бұрын
Well you kind of forgot that the stores are becoming way too expensive for their competitors and the products are becoming less and less valuable and quality. Why spent $80 on a t shirt at a mall
@MikeBNumba65 жыл бұрын
Bingo. The price of jeans is always $50. Even on some of the clearance racks.
@rifter0x00005 жыл бұрын
Definitely. Overpriced merchandise which was probably a symptom caused by the consolidation of malls under 2-3 corporations who all started raising rent and squeezing store owners.
@my2cents495 жыл бұрын
Where I live a crappy pair of mall jeans that fall apart is $80 or more
@greg52995 жыл бұрын
Also movie theaters in malls are expensive. I can go to a theater in a mall and spend $20 dollars on a ticket or go to an independent theater and spend $8 on a ticket
@areyoujelton5 жыл бұрын
Have any of you heard that stranger Things series 3 will have a mall?
@shiina_mahiru_90675 жыл бұрын
Meanwhile shopping mall in Hong Kong still popular, I don't think you can find a vacant mall there
@trashtvinternational5 жыл бұрын
Raymond Chan it’s because AC
@AnimationAirlines5 жыл бұрын
shopping malls are boring looking. they are not dying but they are very plain and dull.
@Tiriikran5 жыл бұрын
It’s because they are convenient, but most things are overpriced and the stores are extremely repetitive. Personally I don’t really like malls in HK.
@AnimationAirlines5 жыл бұрын
@@Tiriikran i agree with the repetitve
@KotsarisGR5 жыл бұрын
Working class in China have money. US working class do not have money. It is that simple.
@yulawah4 жыл бұрын
Godam high renting is the cause. Why bother to open a business when it is a clear sign of lost. The transition is inevitable
@elenachao70805 жыл бұрын
People need to come visit the malls in Asia, or Taiwan at least, and I'm sure malls in Mainland Chinese major cities are astounding too. Always lively and full of people.
@crowcopper43695 жыл бұрын
Also Spencer, we can't overlook the fact that online shopping is what is really reducing that human traffic at these malls and I am afraid its never going back. If you can shop virtually for anything with a few clicks on your phone why do you have to drive anywhere. Its simply an evolution in commerce and the culture is adapting to it. Malls can be repurposed for other things to better the human condition.
@jakedee41175 жыл бұрын
The One World mall in Chengdu city Sichuan province is the largest enclosed space ever in the history of history. It's interior atrium is 13 stories high it has a water park and it's own metro station.
@bradzillabrave68565 жыл бұрын
This is what city planners and planning students like myself are dealing with as well! Such a fascinating subject
@effexon5 жыл бұрын
What everyone seems to miss, is what it feels like to be in mall, are you welcome, how aggressive are they trying to get your money etc... Even city officials dont like to talk about these stuff, then money is wasted a lot when mall is deemed failure. What I'm interested also, what happens to all the concrete in urban areas, when they demolish and build new huge constructions. I heard sand is not infinite supply (needed for concrete a lot).
@stinkleaf4 жыл бұрын
I lived through the death of downtown to the malls. I remember the ARCADES. Then the mall died and our downtown became a new mini-metropolis. Condos, restaurants, shops and etc.
@GodsMan5004 жыл бұрын
Official cause of death: Amazon
@olebeezie56534 жыл бұрын
Horrible selection was a major contributing factor. I cut my teeth in retail during the eighties. It was all about "Fashion Merchandising" to increase sales back then. I worked in Fine Clothing, Women's Shoes, Sportswear, Major Chains and even Sam's Club. The selections they have now now just have me scratching my head and asking "wtf are people wearing???" They don't compare at ALL to the kinds of clothes and things that were desireable back then. Problem with Malls in the US is the same with everything else: they don't cater to the end user. It's more exciting shopping at a 5 Below or Dollar Tree 😇😅😅
@davidhutchinson52334 жыл бұрын
It's a little more complex than that.
@billcotman54734 жыл бұрын
Walmart & Target
@celticandpenobscot86583 жыл бұрын
Real cause of death: a short-sighted public.
@paul2019.3 жыл бұрын
Because youths today think clothe shopping is boring. Amazon is only a little bit of the reason because a lot of things are more expensive on there
@cbarbs82775 жыл бұрын
Contract: "Mention at least 1 minute worth of Stranger Things" Wired: *Forcefully mentions Stranger Things at the beginning and end to make a video that is otherwise completely unrelated*
@val_barbell5 жыл бұрын
C Barbs maybe it was just the inspiration for this girl to make the video
@val_barbell5 жыл бұрын
also this topic has really already been covered by tons of youtubers too. there’s a guy who also did a special on all the kmarts closing too
@BianaBee5 жыл бұрын
"Why malls are dying" dude, I live in Canada and the malls are packed.
@markflierl16245 жыл бұрын
Are you serious? Not in California where I live. Maybe people go to the malls to get out of the cold.
@emko3335 жыл бұрын
yea so0o true, we build malls in the middle of nowhere and they still get packed... even build a massive mall next to another massive mall
@markflierl16244 жыл бұрын
@@mermaidcattt No. I'm telling a Canadian that people go to malls in Canada to get out of the cold. Maybe I just phrased my response wrong. In California, malls are not packed.
@SirKolass4 жыл бұрын
They're talking about US malls fucktard
@ieatgremlins4 жыл бұрын
Mark Flierl Then the video should have said American malls. Malls in South America and Asia seem to be doing well too.
@publiusvelocitor46684 жыл бұрын
When your local mall gets a baseball card trading store, that's like coughing up blood as a sign that you need to see a doctor.
@bvansenu4 жыл бұрын
One of the department stores being turned into a church is like stage 3.
@icecreamforcrowhurst3 жыл бұрын
Ours just LOST a base card trading store! So what does that say?
@dr.christopherrounds87585 жыл бұрын
This video is narrated, formatted, and presented in an incredibly annoying fashion
@SeanMcGartland5 жыл бұрын
It's the fake interview format that is annoying to me. The pasting of the video onto that laptop, especially.
@Miquelalalaa5 жыл бұрын
Christopher Rounds Oh well 🤷♂️ I enjoyed it. It’s a good way to present information as well as symbolic concepts.
@edmccall3904 жыл бұрын
A smaller mall could be converted into a community college, or apartments.
@jimmyalonzo8595 жыл бұрын
Turn Deadmalls into Vaporwave clubs
@8BitDarkNESsR3v145 жыл бұрын
y e s
@lashabezhashvili32494 жыл бұрын
M A L L - C H I L L
@DJ_Force5 жыл бұрын
One thing no one mentions is that media was a significant portion of mall space. Books and magazines about your favorite stars, lots of movie and music stores, and of course a theater. These businesses were hurt or destroyed by the internet.
@AStageForTheKingdom5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, they should have compensated by turning the vacant department stores into live theatres for musicals, plays, operas, concerts, etc, with smaller vacant retail spaces turned dance studios and rehearsal spaces and whatnot, and lots of places for audience members and performers to eat, hang out, etc.
@paulw72814 жыл бұрын
Malls do better In hot climates, free air con for poor & security
@kbs12124 жыл бұрын
The destruction of the middle class. No disposable income. There’s your reason, Wired.
@garyh44584 жыл бұрын
No. If that is true then explain how online shops are so successful.
@mikelouis93894 жыл бұрын
@@garyh4458 Percentages.
@jamesmedina20624 жыл бұрын
Gary Harper Its a combination of internet research allowing you to easily compare prices and then the shopping for an item to buy the cheapest used or new item gave people more options and better prices. When I went to a mall I did not even have a cell phone. A mall is a network of stores. Now the internet is the virtual network.
@rockycomet45874 жыл бұрын
@@jamesmedina2062 Yeah, malls are ridiculously expensive. I've never bought anything at a mall for full price. Online and thrift is the exact same thing for a fraction of the cost.
@kbs12124 жыл бұрын
Rocky Comet Totally agree.
@willardSpirit5 жыл бұрын
Why malls are closing? Old people will probably blame millennials. With their stagnant wages and sky high student student debts
@Gina2313295 жыл бұрын
Willy Wong It really has nothing with millennials being losers or unsuccessful or failing to launch and more and more of them living with Mommy & Daddy. No, Millennials have actually made no changes in this world, good or bad. They are simple the victims of the decisions the big government and elite corporations make.
@anetajohnson84465 жыл бұрын
Iv just read most of these reasons, and there "all valid!"
@thebigsad94635 жыл бұрын
It's not that hard to understand... Online shopping is taking over
@ilove29295 жыл бұрын
Yeh, too many blablabla at the beginning before really getting into the architecture part
@AQGOAT245 жыл бұрын
Clearly you didn't watch the video, they mentioned it
@MrYourDry5 жыл бұрын
@@AQGOAT24 Could you book mark when they do? This video is pretty garbage and seems like the research is really weak.
@pteppig5 жыл бұрын
@Enmity the Kindhearted amazon is just a logistics provider. You can open your own shop online at amazon, ebay, or other local clones of that or just open a normal web shop. Its easier than ever for small businesses to reach customers, while not havin to afford high rent in some mall or even city
@shammydammy26105 жыл бұрын
That would be true if online shopping was the majority of shopping. It's not.
@Sergeant_Fury4 жыл бұрын
I have always felt that the mall was a substitute for the village square, where people of all ages interacted. That some have been redeveloped as actual town centers for the surrounding suburbia is a healthy sign. Suburbs are dreary places that have no heart, which is a social gathering point. Suburbs have none of the advantages of a town and none of the advantages of being out in the country. If you don't have a car in the suburbs, you are as good as dead.
@jamesmedina20624 жыл бұрын
Eugene Pomeroy very well put
@geoffreyharris59312 жыл бұрын
The guy who created them wanted them to be like downtowns.
@Sergeant_Fury2 жыл бұрын
@@geoffreyharris5931 If they redeveloped the stores on the upper floors as apartments, they would, I believe, make a comeback. In Europe, lots of people live above the shops they own and operate.
@tylerboro48122 жыл бұрын
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@HansVonMannschaft5 жыл бұрын
This woman has no idea what she's talking about, and it's not really her fault, it's yours for asking the wrong person. This is like talking to a cartographer about why the South lost the Civil War. It's just not their place to say. You should have interviewed a sociologist who actually knows what they're talking about. This is a very well studied field, it's just not the field a bloody architect has studied.
@MsZooper5 жыл бұрын
Daniel Bazinga lol KZbin comment section experts out in full force
@-Devy-5 жыл бұрын
@@MsZooper That's one thing that'll never die out.
@thisistotallyfine5 жыл бұрын
Why pay gas and drive to the mall, when you can just click a few buttons on Amazon? I will be done ordering on Amazon before starting up my car.
@AlexaBellaMuerte5 жыл бұрын
"Newspaper headlines..." me: what newspapers? Lol those are dying too!
@Food4thought12345 жыл бұрын
OMGOSH, the way she keeps trying to push Stranger Things into the Narrative is cringe worthy. Not to mention most of the question sound like a 3 year old wrote them.
@DouglasLambert5 жыл бұрын
I love that this video is just a simple video of an expert explaing a thing, no BS, besides the Stranger Things plug...
@christiangeiselmann5 жыл бұрын
Yes. But I find the laptop lid blocking the sight to the presenter unpleasant.
@leslijones44433 жыл бұрын
The malls were huge in the early 60’s, through the 70’s and 80’s.
@camodude78815 жыл бұрын
Malls died because they’re all the same, and boring. People love variety
@MrOnlyforcommenting5 жыл бұрын
People are moving to online shopping where you can get great discounts and it ships to your doorstep.
@MNightbirb5 жыл бұрын
@@MrOnlyforcommenting that would kinda of make people mor lazy...
@daved4525 жыл бұрын
@@MNightbirb if you're lazy you're lazy. I'm guessing most people aren't shopping around for exercise
@robertm39515 жыл бұрын
Strip malls are even worse in that regard
@MariaElena-rc9hy4 жыл бұрын
So things people do with dead malls: 1) Downtownization: Putting street grids. Ground level retail. Appartments and offices up above. 2) Office space, Medical uses, Educational uses, churches. 3) Re-greeners. 4) Zombie paintball. I love the variety!
@TangledNana4 жыл бұрын
One more thing at play in the 80's: materialism, the more the better! Big box stores and the economy we're huge factors in the decline of malls. Also, the last 20 years have shown a gradual but definite shift in the younger generations thinking. Many have realized (thank God) stuff doesn't equal happiness. Now it's more about paring down and getting out there living life, traveling, living a quality life, living responsibly. Naturally, malls are getting left out of the equation. Those abandoned building structures could be repurposed in so many ways to help improve the communities they are located in, if only people with money and vision would invest in them.
@HeartSunYoga4 жыл бұрын
Totally true!
@ceoofmemes19672 жыл бұрын
I would disagree. People in the 80s definitely thought more is better but thats not to say this generation thinks any different. the shift is that it's no longer more is better, it's more expensive is better. that's the difference. no one wants to go to Macys and buy a shirt for $20 that has no logo attached to it. they want to go to more high end stores and blow money there. i would argue zoomers are even more materialistic than previous generations and this is exactly why luxury brands have just exploded in popularity. more isn't better, more expensive is better.
@TangledNana2 жыл бұрын
@@ceoofmemes1967 Yeah, point taken. I have to agree with you at least in part while still acknowledging the shift that has slowly taken place in the lives of many towards minimalistic living, off grid living and the nomadic lifestyle.
@TheSultan14702 жыл бұрын
Lame comment
@lisxsales5 жыл бұрын
The historical part was really interesting. As a future architect myself, I love me some architecture/architectural content any time and if comes along with pop culture references, sign me up.
@juliawilson90895 жыл бұрын
i live for it, i'm in the same boat
@marjoriemorris58495 жыл бұрын
Word! I love architecture, history, architectural history, and historic architecture. Totally my jam as well!
@johnbongornio25855 жыл бұрын
Because of online shopping accessibility, privacy and the lack of clothing sizes. It’s not just architecture, not really the main/only issue
@caligulalonghbottom26295 жыл бұрын
I dont think architecture has a damned thing to do with it period. Nobody cares wha the shops look like, its online shopping, point blank. In smaller towns with less access to shopping, malls will continue to be fine.
@juliustheillustrious77275 жыл бұрын
@@caligulalonghbottom2629 Thats gotta be the least intelligent post of this comment section. The architecture and design of a building plays a big part in its success.....
@sukikwan37865 жыл бұрын
Architecture is not only the aesthetics of a building, but is more often a manifestation of the zeitgeist of a specific time period/culture. The commentary of an architectural professor is very appropriate because they study how/why a building typology came to be and why it is no longer appropriate for the culture today.
@juliustheillustrious77275 жыл бұрын
@@sukikwan3786 Plus the layout of a buliding heavily influences consumer behaviour, which is something that good mall architects carefully study and plan for, which wasn't always the case with those malls.
@GlizzardWizard333 жыл бұрын
Turn the malls into affordable housing!!
@MsSphinx915 жыл бұрын
Our downtown mall was torn down, and after a while they put in a city commons. People love it. There's events and concerts there all the time.
@justinedse33142 жыл бұрын
Wouldn't happen to be city center would it?
@halfvolley112 жыл бұрын
what kind of downtown ? Chicago or some A B C city downtown
@maga62524 жыл бұрын
Amazon and streaming services are making malls and movie theatres obsolete.
@silviasteeve4 жыл бұрын
between online shopping taking away the need to even go to places like malls, and the social media actually turning us into more antisocial groups, they are just unfortunately not "needed" in the same way they used to be.
4 жыл бұрын
Boomers and X-generation are getting old. We don't want to walk half a mile to buy a trinket.
@Drobium774 жыл бұрын
but they are more likely to than millenials or gen z
@PetePuebla5 жыл бұрын
People watch abandon mall videos cause it brings a sense of nostalgia. It's not about basking in death.
@okamijubei5 жыл бұрын
Likely they're very sad and scared what will the future turn into
@PetePuebla5 жыл бұрын
@@okamijubei the future is changing and malls are becoming a thing of the past, like Blockbuster Video.
@egyptmachine5 жыл бұрын
Exactly, also it’s the you don’t know what you have till you’re gone deal.
@clintonflynn8154 жыл бұрын
Actually, no, Im basking in the death of the malls.
@honestytoafault4 жыл бұрын
malls are dying because of walmart and target. Macy's buying up all local dept stores. Macy's is an overpriced walmart rude retail employees/retail stores that don't value their customers.
@Hboogie1824 жыл бұрын
Malls are dying is because of Amazon. The new generation of people buys everything online. Why go out of the house when you can have everything delivered to your doorstep. Automation is where the future is heading.
@Lifeinsam5 жыл бұрын
Common ideas for dead malls -museums -Homeless shelters -warehouse -grocery stores -satellite stations for colleges - multi purpose faculties
@reapersovereign73745 жыл бұрын
I haven’t been to mall at all in my adult life because I’m too broke.
@yoleeisbored4 жыл бұрын
lol same.. i thrift shop.. i like saving by wearing used clothes. maybe ill treat myself to ross or tjmaxx
@icecreamforcrowhurst3 жыл бұрын
You can still walk around. Some people use them for exercise.
@billyfulks55875 жыл бұрын
I think this lady is interviewing her future self.
@rawnily4crazee5 жыл бұрын
Could also be the quality of clothing and fast fashion. I’m so sick of my clothes lasting a year. People would rather pay for high quality stuff with longer life spans.
@JAG2145 жыл бұрын
If you want better quality clothing at lower prices then the internet is the way to go
@wlonsdale14 жыл бұрын
@@JAG214 that's hilarious!
@JAG2144 жыл бұрын
@@wlonsdale1 How so ?
@michaela38914 жыл бұрын
Most people that shop- a lot, only need their clothes to last a single season- as they'll be onto newer styles the next year. Those buying "exprensive" longer-lasting items... only shop once every couple years. They're not going to keep doors open.
@charlycomments4 жыл бұрын
“So like what’s this obsession about dead malls?” *Retail Archeology has entered the chat*
@ReevansElectro5 жыл бұрын
Turn malls into schools and colleges. The US of A dearly needs education. Just look at who they voted for in 2016.
@TiberianFiend5 жыл бұрын
You must mean "brainwashing facilities," because if you think people need to be "educated" because of their politics, what you really mean is "re-educated," as in, brainwashed.
@ramonramosbautista65185 жыл бұрын
Tiberian Fiend Everyone is brainwashed
@sasquatchhunter865 жыл бұрын
Yeah the majority voted for Hillary. Bunch of idiots. The other side wasn’t much better either.
@ReevansElectro5 жыл бұрын
@@sasquatchhunter86 And then there is you: you didn't vote at all. Education helps us all vote better.
@sasquatchhunter865 жыл бұрын
Robert Evans I voted for Gary Johnson. Marginally better than the others.
@jimd3855 жыл бұрын
....and one day, something will replace Amazon.
@campkira5 жыл бұрын
Maybe a place you can do a walk around thing that sell like in amazon...
@Feliciatanktop5 жыл бұрын
campkira Amazon has physical stores
@rachaelhopko26065 жыл бұрын
Replicators a la Star Trek
@insaneone43695 жыл бұрын
What??? Because 3D printing is sending people to prison. Not sure how the government is gonna control that. Unless we come under a fascist regime and personal computers become illegal.
@anetajohnson84465 жыл бұрын
Shopping on Mars?
@louissoliz25084 жыл бұрын
In my city 2 malls close because too many thugs just hung out and started trouble selling dope and stealing so they scared the consumers and they went other places
@johnnytocino93134 жыл бұрын
What city is that? That has been happening all over.
@PinkAgaricus4 жыл бұрын
I feel like Northridge would be another. (...and all of the other failing Northridge malls. The "Northridge Curse".)
@louissoliz25084 жыл бұрын
Johnny Tocino San Antonio Texas
@Roemilo5 жыл бұрын
Or you could ask Dan Bell. Someone who produces some of the best dead mall content with great research.
@celladoor96965 жыл бұрын
Yes!!!👏👏👏
@TheSafeSquad5 жыл бұрын
This video is trash, for many reasons. The biggest reason is not collabing with Dan.
@rifter0x00005 жыл бұрын
misstwinpeaks Nice. I go check his videos and it's just a loop of ads, some Jenny Jones story and some crazy woman laughing. Clickbaited by Wired - Rickrolled by Dan Bell. Great job.
@areyoujelton5 жыл бұрын
rifter rifter I think you didn’t watch enough of his stuff lol Dan Bell is the king of dead malls.
@JAG2145 жыл бұрын
Or you can ask Retail Archaeology, Ace's Adventures or even Bright Sun Films
@MashiroShiina5 жыл бұрын
Mall In Philippines: So how many malls would you like? SM MALL: YES
@rosea23503 жыл бұрын
When I went to malls in the Middle East I was amazed at how packed they were! I actually felt like I was going back in time to when I grew up when people loved malls.
@halfvolley112 жыл бұрын
cause those malls are far more entertaining and glamorous than we have
@okrajoe5 жыл бұрын
Internet & Netflix are bringing out the end of boredom - shopping (and so many other things) people used to do just to get out of the house...
@whoahanant5 жыл бұрын
The malls near me are always bustling. Also who cares about Stranger Things why do you keep continuously plugging it? Just plug it in the beginning it feels so off kilter to throw Stranger Things in with dying malls. 🤣 I get it was probably a promo or something but geezus.
@karmicobsession16365 жыл бұрын
because they want people who like stranger things to click on the video c
@robertm39515 жыл бұрын
@@karmicobsession1636 The Google algorithm will bring this up when people watch any KZbin videos about Stranger Things. I am sure I got this, because I follow videos about dead malls
@MrChristopherGuest4 жыл бұрын
There is a candidate for president talking about this, Andrew Yang. #yang2020
@SonyDjuana5 жыл бұрын
Need to connects malls with public facilities like bus / train stations. It'll survive for sure.
@chris44365 жыл бұрын
i agree! a mall near me has stops for 3 buses, and a trolley stop. thats the only reason why my friends and i are even able to go, as we dont have cars. kids still love the mall, we just dont have access to them.
@beth87755 жыл бұрын
Public transit always has stops at major shopping locations, but not every city has a decent network of public transit. Cities/government in general would have to actually focus on policies to promote the middle class, but they only want to focus on thise who are already wealthy. It's a case of capitalist values being self-destructive.
@chris44365 жыл бұрын
@@beth8775 thats very true. our transit system is barely decent, but thats because i live in an area where it 100% needs to be. as in, theres no "rich people" to focus on. i cant imagine what its like in large cities, or upper class areas
@beth87755 жыл бұрын
@@chris4436 I live in an area that's pretty rural, so mass transit doesn't really exist. Our towns aren't big enough to need or support it. Our sporadic cities (small cities really) are largely full of people to whom the concept is kind of foreign, so what systems they do have are not functional enough for people to be content using them.
@noobbotgaming21735 жыл бұрын
@@beth8775 America hates public transportation. America wants everyone to drive that's why public transit is deliberately underfunded. If America continues at the rate of underfunding public transit by the middle of the century public transit will be dead and relegated to NYC.
@94JAVS5 жыл бұрын
Was that whole conversation faked? It was really weird guys...