• @MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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    464 months ago

    I always kind of assumed that was why big stores like Walmart never have any windows except at the entrance lol

    • @dustyData@lemmy.world
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      84 months ago

      The casino school of architecture or leisure design style. That’s why being at one hotel/casino/cruise/mall feels like being at any other. And it’s so hard for those places to actually differentiate or posses an unique brand.

  • billwashere
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    204 months ago

    Because it’s hard to have a clock in something that that doesn’t exist anymore?

    • Maeve
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      84 months ago

      Meh. Malls seem to be trying to come back. Apparently some magical population has not only disposable income, but also enough to waste on but just overpriced, subpar things, but enough to waste on way overpriced things to pay mall rent prices

      • billwashere
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        234 months ago

        I actually miss malls… especially the arcade and the food court. And I miss the 80s. Well not so much the 80s but actually my youth, I mostly miss that. Fuck I’m old.

        But honestly I had a lot of fun hanging with my friends in the mall. My kids never really got that.

        • Maeve
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          84 months ago

          Arcades were fun. Asteroids and space invaders until my hands felt like concrete blocks. I was glad when pool tables were added. Youth really is wasted on the young. Mine was, anyway.

      • WhoisJohnGalt
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        14 months ago

        Yeah around me I see they are trying to reinvent themselves. Usually have other entertainment options (movie theaters, bowling, arcade) or restaurants (true “sit-down” restaurants, not the food courts) attached to them now. Where before they were solely filled with retail stores.

        • Maeve
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          14 months ago

          The malls where I grew up had sit down restaurants, with beverage licenses. One made a fabulous blue concoction (coricou) akin to Texas tea.

      • @delirious_owl
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        14 months ago

        Wouldn’t malls be cheaper rent? They’re high density.

        • Maeve
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          14 months ago

          Not from what I’ve read. I’m sure there are risks to be considered.

      • olav
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        54 months ago

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        They exist in the US but a lot of them are dead or dying. Among other things they have failed to innovate in the face of e-commerce so people can buy the same things without leaving home barring any other draw

        • @jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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          44 months ago

          I guess this is related to the fact most Americans live in suburbs, so driving 40 minutes to the mall seems pretty inconvenient.

  • M137
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    144 months ago

    Outside of the US where it’s pretty common with large clocks in malls. Every mall I’ve been in in several European countries has had one or several large clocks, often being a central point of the mall.

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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    134 months ago

    The longer you stay, the more you spend

    I feel like this works the other way around for me. If I am there for longer, I start doubting the stuff I put in my cart. If I am there for even longer, I start checking online only to find that I could even get it considerably cheaper elsewhere, so I put it back… and never end up buying it from elsewhere anyway, because I had all the time to decide.

    • Maeve
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      34 months ago

      That’s because people like us are on budgets, formal or not.

    • Mr Fish
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      84 months ago

      Home casinos already exist. They’re called mobile games.

      • @Yokozuna@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Yea, that’s as well as browser slot machines. So predatory, it’s really disgusting. But what they were talking about at the end of the article goes way past any of that.

  • olav
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    34 months ago

    @kinther

    At the mall, you have the option of a watch and/or phone.

    But yeah, remove that and it can be maddening ~ particularly if you have no real distractions

  • deadcatbounce
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    -14 months ago

    They don’t have clocks in casinos either so you don’t notice the time.

    As if shopping with your wife wasn’t fun enough. “Yes dear, you look fantastic in that. No, we don’t need to go to try the first one on again.”