One advantage of shopping in person is you can determine the quality of the product you're buying instead of looking at a picture. Especially for clothes. Some clothes delivery comes with hidden damages or defects (holes, loose seams, unfinished threads, etc.) Plus with buying clothes in-person, you can often try it on physically (unless it's in a package or underwear).
It's really sad to see this especially since malls were the place to be back in the day. You could shop, eat and socialize all under one roof. E-commerce really changed the shopping landscape and COVID made it permanent.
As someone who works as a vendor in the malls every holiday season, malls in 2022 did amazing. Last year, it was horrendously bad. Our sales numbers were down in the entire region in all the malls. A lot of the mall staff higher ups believe malls will probably be gone within 10 years.
Malls aren't the same anymore! During my younger years, I really enjoyed going to the mall to buy clothes, grab a bite to eat, & go to the movies! Plus, I absolutely enjoyed visiting the bookstores & record stores!
@@JustRememberWhoYoureWorkingForYeah. The 90s were a much better time, especially to cold approach, but it's getting tough to do that nowadays, since everybody is so vary of everything and scared to socialize.
The internet is what killed most of the malls because nowadays, most people shop online instead of going out to malls. Not to forget Amazon became popular too.
What they need to do is add popular stores young people frequently shop at. Nobody will order online to wait a few days to get their items when they can drive to the nearest mall and pick up the same item in 15 minutes. But the thing is these people don’t adapt to change and don’t competitively compete against online shopping.
It’s actually quite sad to see what's happened to malls across the country. Malls used to be such vibrant and bustling places where people would gather, shop and socialize.
JC Penny's is still in business because a big mall owner wants to keep traffic in their malls! Otherwise, JC Penny's would have went out of business several years ago!
As someone who loves the Dan Bell’s Dead Malls Series, It’s so sad to see malls just left to rot. Like turn them into indoor apartments or something. Have food courts re-open so that the people living in the inside can chill knowing they can just walk without worry of being in traffic or getting out in nasty weather
iirc your suggestion is what malls were intended to be: housing space with separate amenities (stores, fountains, parks, etc) all indoors or partly in/outdoors in a walkable area. i wish that didnt get lost.
You can find living communities like this in Europe I believe. I’ve never been but heard & seen of them. My husband & I want to move there one day ! lol
Believe it or not, there were NO video stores in the malls near me. Those were located in 'strip malls' back in the day. I don't understand why people don't go to the movie theaters anymore though (apart from the ridiculous price). Is streaming on your computer or home television REALLY as good as the big screen and awesome sound system in the theaters?
Its such a shame the malls arent what they use to be. Every holiday season i would just go to the mall with my parents and family then as I grew older i went with friends or a gf and just walk around while holiday music was playing. Sales were everywhere and people were so much nicer. No stress, no worries, just having a good time and enjoying life. What i wouldn't give to go back to those days.😢
You can also thank the owner of the mall. Lots of retailers say these owners really jack up the prices for rent. Its a shame. Im an 80s kid and this was the best way to socialize & get out of the house. Miss those days.
Yeah I was born in the 80's too and I'm missing the 90's so much. Tbh I'm not American and have never been to the US but one of the things that used to make me wish to visit the US as a tourist was precisely your immense malls.
As a teenager, I miss the days my mom used to take me to the mall when I was little. Now the one we always used to go to is dead pretty much. Barely any stores plus crime so hardly anyone goes there anymore.
I'd say the same. Thankfully this one mall I go to is still thriving, I'm unsure how long but I hope it stays like this for at least the rest of my life
Yeah I got robbed too last time I went to the mall. Which is why I stopped going. Sad too because I really used to love it. Also I do think they'd get more customers if they had mobility scooters. My mom stopped going because she can't walk that much with her knee and back problems and she needs a scooter to get around in big shops.
Two keys to making malls successful in 2024: 1) services/experiences over retail (more bowling alleys, bars and hair salons, less expensive stores) and 2) high-density housing MUST be developed on-site (built-in customers). The latter is how it works overseas in places like Hong Kong.
Amsterdam shopping is hot but no malls, little shops, family shops, diversity shops in every street, hardly any cars. No Walmarts or Costcos to drive to, just walk, take your bicycle or public transport the best in the World. Ever been to the 9 streets in Amsterdam this is the most fun you ever have. Than one big store in City center called the Bijenkorf omg every high end brand is for sale, across the Royal Palace, location, location. + a top location the P.C. Hooftstraat only Worlds top brands, again no parking to speak of but booming.
In the late 80', early 90's, Thursday and Friday evening, all day Saturday. The mall was thee place to hang out. Hanging out with friends, people watching, trying to chat up girls. Good times.
It depends on the location as well. The Puente Hills mall, which was shown in the clip, is competing against nearby malls such as Westfield Santa Anita and West Covina. The Santa Anita one recently opened a 99 Ranch Market and is packed on the weekends.
Online shopping is 1 factor, but the other Big factor is the rampant theft & shoplifting at retail stores, that’s scaring lot of retailers & shoppers away…
Crime is down, not up. It *feels* worse than it is because everybody has an HD camera in their pocket. Also, a lot of this retail theft isn't shoplifting, it's insiding.
These people. You can get fired for trying to stop someone from robbing your store. I say theft has gotten really bad. My nearest target was shut down because of that and everything in walmart is getting locked up
The mall close to my home is packed, all the time. However, the owners were smart because they built an entire outdoor area of restaurants, theater, entertainment and a astroturf “grassy” area for families to play or watch an outdoor movie (free) on the big screen. Attached to the old mall, it has truly brought the crowds as the place to be reminiscent of the 80’s.
Not just online shopping causing this, theirs literally nothing of worth inside malls, how many people r willing to drive long hours just to buy overpriced trash?
@@maccoretti51 I'm not from the USA but I just assumed that's what people do, when I went their it was countryside for miles and gas was not cheap ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I wouldn't say there's nothing, since some malls have interesting stores compared to others. But the blame should go to the stores, since most of the stuff they sell is overpriced compared to stores outside the mall. Also the lack of variety in some malls. For example you could find a clothing store with the same items on one end of the mall, and on the opposite you find five stores selling the same things.
I wish we could go back to the way things were from 1960 up to 1990, but especially the 60's and 70's. I was born in 1962 and I miss those days so much that it hurts!
Its not just online shopping that caused a decline in malls, but also rise in thefts & gun violence makes people avoid enclosed spaces. My local mall in NJ had several incidents occurring mostly during the holidays & one of them was a bomb scare. Thieves tried using is as a distraction to rob a Macy's.
I'm in NJ too and nothing like that ever happened in any of the malls near me! The biggest thing was car theft. You must be near Newark or Elizabeth or Hudson Country or someplace like that. Or perhaps near Camden or the Vineland area.
It’s essential for any shopping mall now, to stay in business, is to have entertainment areas such as theaters, bowling, skating, kids playground/games, food court, restaurants..etc. The activities that people can’t do it online or from home!
Yeah, I think so too. It used to be back in the day, the stores themselves could serve that function because they had lots of cool stuff out that you could just hang out and play with, even if you didn't intend to buy anything. But I guess it's just not economically viable to have stores like that anymore.
Yeah when I went to the mall forever ago just to walk around I was very surprised that the movie theater *AND* the RoundOne shutdown;those were the only places dedicated to entertainment instead of shopping.
I hate online shopping so much. You have to wait so long for stuff to arrive, plus nothing beats walking up to an item and feeling it with your own hands in person. Online shopping will never replace that.
Ya'll must not have long patience if you can't wait. I've forgotten I have brought stuff online and have packages coming until the packages show up at my doorstep. That's when I remembered I brought stuff online.
both have their conveniences. I like shopping for clothes, shoes and things like candles and perfumes in the store. I can see, feel and try on the clothing and shoes, smell the perfumes and candles. online is nice when i'm wanting something not available near me
Online shopping is convenient, lots more access to products, and you don't have to get dressed all the time and use gas and go to a long distance just to buy some heaters, but the scammers online is a 3/10 chance and sometimes the quality sucks too
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I miss the mall so much, I'm an 80s baby, so many of my fondest memories were at the mall. I do a majority of my shopping online now, but not really by choice, i developed condition back at the end of 2008 that causes my legs to swell, and in 2016 i suffered a bad fall and now have a bad hip and knee so I'm pretty much homebound except for doctors appointment's, but i would much rather be at the mall, it was the ultimate stress reliever and now i worry that the one mall i have always wanted to visit is going to close before i ever get a chance to go, THE MALL OF AMERICA! I'm only 38 and so far I've lost drive-In movie theaters, dine-in Pizza Huts, Video Stores, and now the Mall.💔
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We only have 1 mall left where I live in CA, you can thank inflation mainly. Who shops at malls now when most of the state is living paycheck to paycheck ? SMH. Inside edition should've mentioned that.
Bro it's hardly inflation at all: The US has lower inflation rates than most of the World (The bigger issue is that wage raises aren't equaling the inflation rate.). Bigger factors include the proliferation of online shopping and increased isolation.
Almost every home or apartment as an air conditioner in Florida. Every building you walk into has and air conditioner. Most vehicles on the road have a working air conditioner. So a mall is not the only place to escape the heat during the summer.@@KC-ed1dj
And they don't allow the Homeless to be vagrants there. They also prosecute shoplifting, etc. So you can actually feel safe at the mall in Florida. Thank you Governor Ron Desantis!!!
i actually went to one today (not to shop) and it was so depressing. That mall was always depressing but it used to be packed with people on the weekends before 2020
Sad, I get that not everything can be had in stores but seeing malls slowly dying is sad. I remember buying CD's in the mid-90's and seeing mobs of teens dropped off by their parents walking around for something to do. The other day it was a ghost town (Solomon Pond Mall, Marlborough, Mass) Remembering what stores used to be where back in the day some still survive.
That's crazy! Had I not watched this video, I would've never known. I live next to an Outlet Mall, and it's busy every day! Especially on weekends, it'd be causing traffic around the area!
@@user-uj5ly1eq5n malls have been dying and closing since the late 2000s and early 2010s. Literally go on UA-cam and type in abandoned malls, you're going to find videos dating back as early as 2008.
@user-uj5ly1eq5n It's not a new revelation, Newsweek declared malls a dying market back in 2008. The fact is online shopping has been taking over rapidly since the dawn of the century, and they were beat down hard by the 2009 recession shortly after. Covid and retail theft just put the final nail in the coffin.
I missed the days where the mall was THE place to go with family and friends. Even if you didn’t buy a lot, it was just refreshing to get out, walk, and socialize with friends.
I would kill to have my mall back- Even if we didn't buy anything, being able to walk around and look at everything, eat in the cafeteria, hang out at the arcade, use the massage chairs, all of it was so fun to do with friends! I especially loved sitting under the skylight while it was raining!
No. People VALUE THEIR LIVES more than shopping malls. Why go be a target of a psycho in a mall with a gun when you can go online and order what you want without trauma, violence, or death....
the thing is people would try on stuff at the malls, then go buy it online and save 5 dollars.... so they use the fitting service and staffing of a store but then do not patron it, and it goes out of business. really sad
My local mall is still pretty highly active and I live in a suburb. Ironically, the Walmart at that mall seems to be the only store that has experienced a massive decrease in shoppers. I'm thinking it's because they totally changed the layout of the store that's been there for 20+ years.
'...Wishing they could go back to the future when there were no ghost malls...' I think he should've said "go back to the past when there were no ghost malls!"
I miss going to the mall so much, id still go if my town didnt take it away decades ago. Shopping, hanging out, midnight game releases, food.. better times man, better times.
Here in jersey it ain’t no different. Covid changed everything, I used to always hit the malls with my boys. Buy some clothes, check some shoes out, get some food but now we rarely go to the mall. Even on my own if I need something I order it online, here in jersey Livingston mall is dead, other malls aren’t so hot either
I actually prefer shopping at the mall compared to online, it's more convenient to try on clothes there. Comparing that to shopping online, then wearing it and returning it if not correct. The worst case is I would need to wait days for the $$ to come back into my wallet/credit card. Might not be a hassle, but if ALL/EVEN MORE malls close, then you're going to wait even LONGER for return processing.
It could be the amount of dangerous activity in the area or in the mall. Such as Fighting, Robbing stores, or any other of violence. The mall near me, is just like that. There’s police monitoring the place everyday!
I have bought several items of clothes online that did't have the right fit, so I had to go thru the hassle of sending them back, it's better to buy clothes from a mall so you can try them on and see if they have the right fit and look.
I like big malls☹ getting lost throughout every floor just exploring. I remember going with my family on the furniture floor and they had all these beautiful rows of beds and you could just lay on them to test them. Fun times. Curse you online shopping lmao
I dont understand why people buy everything online? If it's hard to obtain an item, that's understandable. But when you buy online you pay so much in shipping prices and you have to wait for it to arrive. It's also sad because I remember my mom giving me five or ten dollars when I was younger, and I would go buy things at the mall. Now, a mom just hands their kids the credit card.
i'm in the UK, i can order something from Amazon at say 7pm , and for a lot of stuff will arrive by noon the next day often free shipping. I live in London, if i drive to central london, that's £20+, it's hard to compete with that. I was buying from Amazon when it was just a book retailer (many people forget that)
I don't like shopping online either, especially when it comes to buying clothes, but I'm usually forced to do it. The city where I'm in has so many shoplifters and weirdos, the services at stores suck, overcrowded, and they often don't have what I'm looking for. So those problems could also be reasons as to why so many shop online nowadays.
My father owns a jewelry store in a mall so I have a lot of fond memories growing up visiting him often and even working in one. There’s something so depressing about seeing all those closed shutters…. People’s hopes and dreams were once put in to what lay behind them.
I remember going to the mall as a kid. My mom would take me there for back-to-school clothes shopping, and she'd essentially have to bribe me to do it (clothes shopping gave me a literal headache every time we went). We'd take an hour to get me set for school, and then we'd head over to the mall's bookstore nearby - Walden Bookstore, if y'all remember them. 😅
As someone who grew up in Hacienda Heights, it is disappointing and sad to see that this mall has high vacancy. I spent my junior high & high school weekends there.
You need entertainment, restaurants, high quality and also niche cafés... In Korea we also often have huge pop-up stores like Pokémon, Nintendo, Cookie Run: Kingdom, SpongeBob, Powerpuff Girls, Jurassic Park... anything you can imagine. Make it an experience and give people a reason to visit again
It’s honestly sad cause recently back in March a mall that’s been apart of my childhood closed. It really does hit once something that was so little in your life closes that meant so much and it’s honestly sad to know how everything is being closed over a convenience
my favorite movie theater closed some years ago, but sat empty ever since - until last spring, when the entire remaining standing property was razed which hit me so hard cuz part of me always hoped a miracle would happen & it could've been saved.. 😭
I like shopping in person, especially for clothes and gifts for loved ones.
It's a shame that malls aren't popular and everyone just wants to shop online😢
I too enjoy it and you get to socialize. I actually met 2 of my husbands at the mall.
@@RandalWilliams-rm6hf the one in my town is doing pretty good still, there aren't that many empty storefronts.
I get everything from Amazon.
Everything from pen, ice cream, TV.
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One advantage of shopping in person is you can determine the quality of the product you're buying instead of looking at a picture.
Especially for clothes. Some clothes delivery comes with hidden damages or defects (holes, loose seams, unfinished threads, etc.)
Plus with buying clothes in-person, you can often try it on physically (unless it's in a package or underwear).
You can thank Amazon and COVID for this.
and china
Malls were dying long before covid but yeah, the internet pretty much made malls vulnerable.
my mall closed because Jamal and Tyrone kept causing trouble, so everybody else stopped going
@@MikeG82 Nobody cares about your furry alter egos
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It's really sad to see this especially since malls were the place to be back in the day. You could shop, eat and socialize all under one roof. E-commerce really changed the shopping landscape and COVID made it permanent.
Yea but that was back in the 80's and 90's.
The internet is ruining everything
As someone who works as a vendor in the malls every holiday season, malls in 2022 did amazing. Last year, it was horrendously bad. Our sales numbers were down in the entire region in all the malls. A lot of the mall staff higher ups believe malls will probably be gone within 10 years.
Malls aren't the same anymore! During my younger years, I really enjoyed going to the mall to buy clothes, grab a bite to eat, & go to the movies! Plus, I absolutely enjoyed visiting the bookstores & record stores!
Yeah I miss the 1990's so much 😢
@@JustRememberWhoYoureWorkingForYeah. The 90s were a much better time, especially to cold approach, but it's getting tough to do that nowadays, since everybody is so vary of everything and scared to socialize.
@@EccentricFollowedByMen yeah and the climate agenda is killing everything too
The internet is what killed most of the malls because nowadays, most people shop online instead of going out to malls. Not to forget Amazon became popular too.
It was the 80s for me, but it’s not the same anymore. So many people have bad attitudes these days. It’s not fun anymore.
I hope all malls don’t close down. I love going to the mall 😢
Me too
Not enough apparently 😂
Teenager
Go more often 😆
@@FDR-ww6xzgay old man
What they need to do is add popular stores young people frequently shop at. Nobody will order online to wait a few days to get their items when they can drive to the nearest mall and pick up the same item in 15 minutes. But the thing is these people don’t adapt to change and don’t competitively compete against online shopping.
young people don't buy anything
Or people can order online and pick up at the mall.
Ironically, even back to the future couldn’t of predicted, that malls would be obsolete
It’s actually quite sad to see what's happened to malls across the country. Malls used to be such vibrant and bustling places where people would gather, shop and socialize.
Now scared shtlss everytime going to a mall, fkg looking around going away and back to the car 🥴 fkg sweaty nervous 🙏🙏🙏
Fkg enough said 🥹🙏🙏🙏
JC Penny's is still in business because a big mall owner wants to keep traffic in their malls! Otherwise, JC Penny's would have went out of business several years ago!
In my country they’re still packing with people, reason for that is because of the aircon😂
regular malls were big during the 80s, 90s & early 2000s now its plazas or online shopping
Still does in my town, I’m glad we aren’t victims of cyber world completely.
As someone who loves the Dan Bell’s Dead Malls Series, It’s so sad to see malls just left to rot. Like turn them into indoor apartments or something. Have food courts re-open so that the people living in the inside can chill knowing they can just walk without worry of being in traffic or getting out in nasty weather
iirc your suggestion is what malls were intended to be: housing space with separate amenities (stores, fountains, parks, etc) all indoors or partly in/outdoors in a walkable area. i wish that didnt get lost.
This is a fantastic idea.
That sounds like a brilliant idea.
You can find living communities like this in Europe I believe. I’ve never been but heard & seen of them. My husband & I want to move there one day ! lol
They actually have one of those in Boston MA. It was made from one of the oldest, if not the oldest indoor mall in the U.S.
Same reason why rental places like videos stores dont exist anymore, and why people hardly go to movie theaters. Cause social media ruined everything.
Believe it or not, there were NO video stores in the malls near me. Those were located in 'strip malls' back in the day. I don't understand why people don't go to the movie theaters anymore though (apart from the ridiculous price). Is streaming on your computer or home television REALLY as good as the big screen and awesome sound system in the theaters?
Its such a shame the malls arent what they use to be. Every holiday season i would just go to the mall with my parents and family then as I grew older i went with friends or a gf and just walk around while holiday music was playing. Sales were everywhere and people were so much nicer. No stress, no worries, just having a good time and enjoying life. What i wouldn't give to go back to those days.😢
yes, I don't care what anyone says, the good old days were better !!! now everyone just stays at home and don't socialize anymore :(
@@davidjymNot everyone's like that, I still see people going to malls and socializing.
@@tomboyjessie1352 true, but the percentage is shifting
Wasn't it awesome? I remember that back in the 80's and 90's.
You can also thank the owner of the mall. Lots of retailers say these owners really jack up the prices for rent. Its a shame. Im an 80s kid and this was the best way to socialize & get out of the house. Miss those days.
Yeah I was born in the 80's too and I'm missing the 90's so much. Tbh I'm not American and have never been to the US but one of the things that used to make me wish to visit the US as a tourist was precisely your immense malls.
Me too and I hope malls make a comeback and malls should be more than just shopping. It is just great to get out and socialize.
This
@@TrinhNguyen-sh4fjonly way mall came back is if all online shop banned/die/ban e money
The mall near me has little to no customers. The elevators aren’t even working anymore. 😮😮😮 I go to walk some times, sad.
As a teenager, I miss the days my mom used to take me to the mall when I was little. Now the one we always used to go to is dead pretty much. Barely any stores plus crime so hardly anyone goes there anymore.
We were robbed
@@icespeaker81robbed of time
I'd say the same. Thankfully this one mall I go to is still thriving, I'm unsure how long but I hope it stays like this for at least the rest of my life
Yeah I got robbed too last time I went to the mall. Which is why I stopped going. Sad too because I really used to love it. Also I do think they'd get more customers if they had mobility scooters. My mom stopped going because she can't walk that much with her knee and back problems and she needs a scooter to get around in big shops.
Yeah, I really miss the good old days. A lot of great memories of when I was a teenager. I was only 16 in 1986.
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Bro is going to need to get the squad down there and start searching for any noclips
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I like how they're finally covering issues that's been quite obvious for the last 20 years.
Two keys to making malls successful in 2024: 1) services/experiences over retail (more bowling alleys, bars and hair salons, less expensive stores) and 2) high-density housing MUST be developed on-site (built-in customers). The latter is how it works overseas in places like Hong Kong.
Amsterdam shopping is hot but no malls, little shops, family shops, diversity shops in every street, hardly any cars. No Walmarts or Costcos to drive to, just walk, take your bicycle or public transport the best in the World. Ever been to the 9 streets in Amsterdam this is the most fun you ever have. Than one big store in City center called the Bijenkorf omg every high end brand is for sale, across the Royal Palace, location, location. + a top location the P.C. Hooftstraat only Worlds top brands, again no parking to speak of but booming.
Nope
The answer is keep the riff raff out. But thats racist! Still the truth.
@@leonardoluc6362 Thanks bro, you made me not want to go to NL.
@@leonardoluc6362 yes I remenber when I lived in Germany it's like that, very pleasant & fun & safe. Miss that.
Id 100% live in a apartment connected to a mall
Malls have been dying for more than 15 years now. More people shop online or go to Walmart or Target. This is nothing new
Exactly!
Only in the US
Fax, I went to a mall before and it wasn’t packed at all, there was some people, but the mall was still not packed
@@XandieFireman no, in Europe this is happening too 😢
My local mall has target in Glendale so at least it’s still busy for now
Not in Asia or southeast Asia it's damn crowded here every weekend😅
For all my South FL people know Dadeland Mall, Dolphin Mall, and The Falls would never die out. They’re packed literally everyday lol
In the late 80', early 90's, Thursday and Friday evening, all day Saturday. The mall was thee place to hang out. Hanging out with friends, people watching, trying to chat up girls. Good times.
And beating the meat to fredericks of Hollywood catalogs and JC penny swimsuit section, and star search spokesmodels
How well I remember.................
going outside is dangerous. too many shootings and theft.
I stay in my apartment forever.
Sounds like a fun life you have
You must be real fun at parties
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You can’t live in fear.
"Outside Dowtown LA"? Puente Hills is like a 20 mile drive from DTLA 🤣
“When was the last time you went to the mall?” Today…. It was packed
It depends on the location as well. The Puente Hills mall, which was shown in the clip, is competing against nearby malls such as Westfield Santa Anita and West Covina. The Santa Anita one recently opened a 99 Ranch Market and is packed on the weekends.
i love santa anita mall
Thanks
Competing? It's been dead for over two decades 💀
Ya I just went there lol
Sawgrass Mills in Ft Lauderdale near where I live is also supremely packed, it’s also malls that offer a lot more than just clothing
Malls back then were places to spend time with friends. We enjoy walking around talking and checking things out together although we don't buy much
Good times. Those were the days😎
@@KevinRichards-rk3gp yes.. good old days 🙂
Today people can spend their whole day on a phone. The world is different back then
Arcades and cinemas gone.
@@skycloud4802 yep Xboxes, PSs, & games on phones killed the arcades just like Netflix & Redbox killed the video stores.
I would go to the mall every weekend to play at the arcade from 2004-2007, a few years before everybody became phone dependent. Good times 😌
Yeah the mall I used to go to closed in 2019. But I still went to it in like 2017 but it was like the quietest and most emptiest place ever.
Online shopping is 1 factor, but the other Big factor is the rampant theft & shoplifting at retail stores, that’s scaring lot of retailers & shoppers away…
I have to disagree, crime used to be so much worse back in the 70s/80s/90s when malls were at their peak. Just look at the stats
Watch out, lawsuits and judgments
Scared shtlss I wouldn't say that 🥴🙏🙏🙏
Crime is down, not up. It *feels* worse than it is because everybody has an HD camera in their pocket.
Also, a lot of this retail theft isn't shoplifting, it's insiding.
There's no Rampant shoplifting. That's fake news that stores made up to justify raising prices.
These people. You can get fired for trying to stop someone from robbing your store. I say theft has gotten really bad. My nearest target was shut down because of that and everything in walmart is getting locked up
The mall close to my home is packed, all the time. However, the owners were smart because they built an entire outdoor area of restaurants, theater, entertainment and a astroturf “grassy” area for families to play or watch an outdoor movie (free) on the big screen. Attached to the old mall, it has truly brought the crowds as the place to be reminiscent of the 80’s.
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Baybrook mall ?
Sounds like I wish I lived near you, and that, yes.
Wow that south park episode is becoming a reality
Malls started to become bad when they started telling everyone they could do everything online like Amazon.
The high prices dont help.
You're right about that. That's actually why I rarely ever go to malls anymore. It's not because of online shopping in my case.
I remember the last time I went to my mall, I saw pants that costed $99.99. thought I was gonna have a heartattack.
Even a t-shirt that you can find at ross for 5$ is like 30$ at hot topic spencers or zoomies
This is the real answer, if they lowered their prices more people would go
Not just online shopping causing this, theirs literally nothing of worth inside malls, how many people r willing to drive long hours just to buy overpriced trash?
Why would you drive hours to get to your local mall? 😂
Exactly, a lot of stuff at malls you can find at your local Target or Walmart.
@@maccoretti51 I'm not from the USA but I just assumed that's what people do, when I went their it was countryside for miles and gas was not cheap ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Right, overpriced junk because the rent is too high
I wouldn't say there's nothing, since some malls have interesting stores compared to others. But the blame should go to the stores, since most of the stuff they sell is overpriced compared to stores outside the mall. Also the lack of variety in some malls.
For example you could find a clothing store with the same items on one end of the mall, and on the opposite you find five stores selling the same things.
I wish we could go back to the way things were from 1960 up to 1990, but especially the 60's and 70's. I was born in 1962 and I miss those days so much that it hurts!
Buddy, i grew up in the slums of Cleveland, Ohio. Ive been seeing this site since 2008. Now in Atlanta and that mall NEVER sleeps.
Its not just online shopping that caused a decline in malls, but also rise in thefts & gun violence makes people avoid enclosed spaces. My local mall in NJ had several incidents occurring mostly during the holidays & one of them was a bomb scare. Thieves tried using is as a distraction to rob a Macy's.
Only in the US 😅
You realize crime and gun crime used to be worse back in the day
@@Entername-md1ev Or maybe it is downplayed now and was blown up then...
I'm in NJ too and nothing like that ever happened in any of the malls near me! The biggest thing was car theft.
You must be near Newark or Elizabeth or Hudson Country or someplace like that. Or perhaps near Camden or the Vineland area.
my mall is still packed in my area! many kids and families still go to my mall and it’s a good sight because many like shopping in person!
The average experience for people in the mall is looking, but not buying, then lunch at the food court.
@@bobloblaw2958that’s why it’s fun
Same. I just went to mall few days ago.
yeah two in my area still gets lots of shoppers especially during the holiday season
@@bobloblaw2958 i know everything is expensive nowadays but i see some people buying stuff now and then due to sales that they have!!!
Everybody gangsta till you start hearing heavy rolling sounds approaching you...
Nothing like hard hitting news from inside edition. The mall has been dead since 2006
It’s essential for any shopping mall now, to stay in business, is to have entertainment areas such as theaters, bowling, skating, kids playground/games, food court, restaurants..etc. The activities that people can’t do it online or from home!
Yeah, I think so too. It used to be back in the day, the stores themselves could serve that function because they had lots of cool stuff out that you could just hang out and play with, even if you didn't intend to buy anything. But I guess it's just not economically viable to have stores like that anymore.
Yeah when I went to the mall forever ago just to walk around I was very surprised that the movie theater *AND* the RoundOne shutdown;those were the only places dedicated to entertainment instead of shopping.
You can even do that online now too....uber eats and watch whatever you want
Except take theater out for online streaming, and food court and restaurants out for online ordering.
I hate online shopping so much. You have to wait so long for stuff to arrive, plus nothing beats walking up to an item and feeling it with your own hands in person. Online shopping will never replace that.
But if we’re being honest, it’s more of a façade for online shopping I think it’s more the economy and where we’re at with our money bills come first
Also doesn’t help that everything is ridiculously expensive now, and that brick and mortar stores get robbed to death especially in california.
Ya'll must not have long patience if you can't wait. I've forgotten I have brought stuff online and have packages coming until the packages show up at my doorstep. That's when I remembered I brought stuff online.
The mall in Staten Island, New York is still quite active, thank you very much.
both have their conveniences. I like shopping for clothes, shoes and things like candles and perfumes in the store. I can see, feel and try on the clothing and shoes, smell the perfumes and candles. online is nice when i'm wanting something not available near me
Cool will have to go explore some of the abandoned malls
Exploring with...
Josh
might have to come here
Online shopping is convenient, lots more access to products, and you don't have to get dressed all the time and use gas and go to a long distance just to buy some heaters, but the scammers online is a 3/10 chance and sometimes the quality sucks too
So you don't want to leave your house then? Enjoy!
I agree, eCommerce is King! 🌐︎🌎🙂I also enjoy the online shopping experience! Online shopping allows you to shop exclusive unique items you may not or cannot find in your local retail brick and mortar store, shop or venue. It's fast, convenient and yes you can do it remotely at your fingertips at the click of a computer button or smartphone! I've bought some of my favorite items online from eCommerce companies. : ) 🙂🙃😀😃😄😁
I miss the mall so much, I'm an 80s baby, so many of my fondest memories were at the mall. I do a majority of my shopping online now, but not really by choice, i developed condition back at the end of 2008 that causes my legs to swell, and in 2016 i suffered a bad fall and now have a bad hip and knee so I'm pretty much homebound except for doctors appointment's, but i would much rather be at the mall, it was the ultimate stress reliever and now i worry that the one mall i have always wanted to visit is going to close before i ever get a chance to go, THE MALL OF AMERICA! I'm only 38 and so far I've lost drive-In movie theaters, dine-in Pizza Huts, Video Stores, and now the Mall.💔
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Do you get disability or WFH?
Yes, drive-ins & video stores. Dam I miss those days
24 hour Walmarts, Classic Cartoon Network and Chinese Buffets
In Jesus Name, Amen!!!
We only have 1 mall left where I live in CA, you can thank inflation mainly. Who shops at malls now when most of the state is living paycheck to paycheck ? SMH.
Inside edition should've mentioned that.
Yep, this. I can barely pay my bills and buy food. I haven't bought clothes in years.
Inside Edition is simply more MSM control.
Bro it's hardly inflation at all: The US has lower inflation rates than most of the World (The bigger issue is that wage raises aren't equaling the inflation rate.). Bigger factors include the proliferation of online shopping and increased isolation.
@@romancetips365 same bro.
@Wasserkaktus we must not be talking about the same United States of America bro.
What sucks about this is that I LIKE MALLS! Seeing people not go to them sucks, they're so cool 🥺
Unless you like shopping for clothes or wandering around, there's not much to do at malls anymore.
mostly movies or dining which aren't very unique anymore
Malls in Florida still booming and they stay crowded especially during the holidays.
Because y'all need somewhere to run from that overbearing heat. 😄
KC Yea we do
Almost every home or apartment as an air conditioner in Florida. Every building you walk into has and air conditioner. Most vehicles on the road have a working air conditioner. So a mall is not the only place to escape the heat during the summer.@@KC-ed1dj
And they don't allow the Homeless to be vagrants there. They also prosecute shoplifting, etc. So you can actually feel safe at the mall in Florida. Thank you Governor Ron Desantis!!!
The Mall of America in Minnesota is also still crowded and booming as usual
Inside Edition: when’s the last time you went to a mall
Me: a week ago
9 years for me
One month
my ex hasn’t been to one for 12 years 😭
i actually went to one today (not to shop) and it was so depressing. That mall was always depressing but it used to be packed with people on the weekends before 2020
well idk about u guys but when i go to the mall its gone back to how it was BEFORE covid...
Sad, I get that not everything can be had in stores but seeing malls slowly dying is sad. I remember buying CD's in the mid-90's and seeing mobs of teens dropped off by their parents walking around for something to do. The other day it was a ghost town (Solomon Pond Mall, Marlborough, Mass) Remembering what stores used to be where back in the day some still survive.
That's crazy! Had I not watched this video, I would've never known. I live next to an Outlet Mall, and it's busy every day! Especially on weekends, it'd be causing traffic around the area!
This has been happening for years! Why is Inside Edition only talking about this now?
No this started happening since Covid or retail theft
@@user-uj5ly1eq5n malls have been dying and closing since the late 2000s and early 2010s. Literally go on UA-cam and type in abandoned malls, you're going to find videos dating back as early as 2008.
@user-uj5ly1eq5n It's not a new revelation, Newsweek declared malls a dying market back in 2008. The fact is online shopping has been taking over rapidly since the dawn of the century, and they were beat down hard by the 2009 recession shortly after. Covid and retail theft just put the final nail in the coffin.
Don’t forget inflation, less disposable income, mass shootings in large places, and just being around people is generally unbearable aka Karen’s.
because they were told to now.
Blame flash robbery for this as well
yeah they don't want to admit the diversity they claim to love is what closed a lot of these malls
and covid.
@@MikeG82Here we go🙄
@@jaycensangel.304 saying here we go again proves nothing. Say something useful
lol not really.. more like covid and a weaker economy
I missed the days where the mall was THE place to go with family and friends. Even if you didn’t buy a lot, it was just refreshing to get out, walk, and socialize with friends.
exactly. kids today will miss that social aspect of physical spaces.
@@davidjym No they won't. Malls will be the law and online shopping will be criminalized. Kids will be turned into clones of their parents.
@@stanfordite1 ????
I would kill to have my mall back-
Even if we didn't buy anything, being able to walk around and look at everything, eat in the cafeteria, hang out at the arcade, use the massage chairs, all of it was so fun to do with friends! I especially loved sitting under the skylight while it was raining!
Because nobody has any money .
Uh, the stock market is over 38,000, unemployment is at 3.3%
@@justayoutuber1906lmao, two figures which mean absolutely nothing when it comes to financial well-being
A lot of people have become more lazy too. They don’t want to get up and drive and walk around the mall.
Answer: People value convenience more than what malls offer over the e-commerce experience.
Fr in person shopping is just so fun
No. People VALUE THEIR LIVES more than shopping malls. Why go be a target of a psycho in a mall with a gun when you can go online and order what you want without trauma, violence, or death....
@sparkysmom7149 why do anything when you risk dying for exisiting? Stop fear mongering lol
I simply don't go because of location and it being over priced. I have to choose groceries over clothes
@@sparkysmom7149that’s what happen when you keep voting red.
Lost our mall 20 years ago. The over head costs were too high.
One thing I miss about living in Southeast Asia is all the fancy malls.
I love buying things in person more than online shopping
Same, like when i shop for cloths i like shopping in person than online, and most of the time u dont get what u want when u shop online
the thing is people would try on stuff at the malls, then go buy it online and save 5 dollars....
so they use the fitting service and staffing of a store but then do not patron it, and it goes out of business.
really sad
Prices to rent a space is outrageous!!
The mall sometimes took a percentage of the store's gross receipts.
I literally just went to the mall last week and it was packed lmao.
Which mall is this?
The poor don't go out shopping at the mall, the rich don't go out shopping. Malls were meant for the middle class.
My local mall is still pretty highly active and I live in a suburb.
Ironically, the Walmart at that mall seems to be the only store that has experienced a massive decrease in shoppers. I'm thinking it's because they totally changed the layout of the store that's been there for 20+ years.
Times change. People buy on line, and teenage thugs congregate at malls, making them unsafe both inside and in parking lots.
Nothing to do with it. Teenage thugs were around in the 80s-00s, and crime was worse then.
Times don't change anymore. History is done.
Yes black teens*
@duckmercy11 No, it wasn't. Yes, there have always been thieves and shoplifters, but never as bad as today, and it's only going to get worse.
No middle class, no malls.
It's amazing how lifeless these malls feel with so few people in them.
'...Wishing they could go back to the future when there were no ghost malls...'
I think he should've said "go back to the past when there were no ghost malls!"
Yeah when he said that I was like... **visible confusion** the malls would probably be demolished in the future lmao
It’s a reference to the movie, Back to the Future
@@shontoo6979 Thank you, Captain Obvious, I saw the movie in the theatre in 1985 and various times on VHS after that...!
I miss going to the mall so much, id still go if my town didnt take it away decades ago. Shopping, hanging out, midnight game releases, food.. better times man, better times.
Here in jersey it ain’t no different. Covid changed everything, I used to always hit the malls with my boys. Buy some clothes, check some shoes out, get some food but now we rarely go to the mall. Even on my own if I need something I order it online, here in jersey Livingston mall is dead, other malls aren’t so hot either
50000 people used to shop here. Now it's a ghost town.
Talk about not having social skills....I guess this generation would rather talk to a screen than a person 😔😔😔
Yes. We would.
I actually prefer shopping at the mall compared to online, it's more convenient to try on clothes there. Comparing that to shopping online, then wearing it and returning it if not correct. The worst case is I would need to wait days for the $$ to come back into my wallet/credit card. Might not be a hassle, but if ALL/EVEN MORE malls close, then you're going to wait even LONGER for return processing.
as a teen we ALL go to the mall to hang out with friends and it’s usually packed on the weekends. i live in the east coast of the us
It could be the amount of dangerous activity in the area or in the mall. Such as Fighting, Robbing stores, or any other of violence. The mall near me, is just like that. There’s police monitoring the place everyday!
I have bought several items of clothes online that did't have the right fit, so I had to go thru the hassle of sending them back, it's better to buy clothes from a mall so you can try them on and see if they have the right fit and look.
I like big malls☹ getting lost throughout every floor just exploring. I remember going with my family on the furniture floor and they had all these beautiful rows of beds and you could just lay on them to test them. Fun times. Curse you online shopping lmao
Same
*"50000 people use to shop here,but now is a ghost town"*
A mall here in Glendale AZ was built in 92 and the mall is still booming. It's a great mall
I dont understand why people buy everything online?
If it's hard to obtain an item, that's understandable. But when you buy online you pay so much in shipping prices and you have to wait for it to arrive.
It's also sad because I remember my mom giving me five or ten dollars when I was younger, and I would go buy things at the mall. Now, a mom just hands their kids the credit card.
i'm in the UK, i can order something from Amazon at say 7pm , and for a lot of stuff will arrive by noon the next day often free shipping. I live in London, if i drive to central london, that's £20+, it's hard to compete with that. I was buying from Amazon when it was just a book retailer (many people forget that)
anti vaxxers is why
Pure laziness.
They give better deals online
I don't like shopping online either, especially when it comes to buying clothes, but I'm usually forced to do it. The city where I'm in has so many shoplifters and weirdos, the services at stores suck, overcrowded, and they often don't have what I'm looking for. So those problems could also be reasons as to why so many shop online nowadays.
Because people don’t have enough money for malls and then online shopping it’s cheaper
If I can shop without having to deal with a wild Karen then I'm all in for online shopping personally 😅
Makes me thankful that my nearby mall is still thriving, and friends still chill out over there
My father owns a jewelry store in a mall so I have a lot of fond memories growing up visiting him often and even working in one. There’s something so depressing about seeing all those closed shutters…. People’s hopes and dreams were once put in to what lay behind them.
Personally I only shop online if it's something I can't normally get in stores, like if something's out of stock, unique, etc.
The Mall has always been part of my childhood memories every time when me and my family would go shopping for just hang out.
My local mall only gets bigger every year.... I dont even dare to go near it around Christmas anymore. So this is news to me.
Shopping online is great but so is shopping in person. I highly doubt that all shopping 🛍️ malls will become ghost towns.
I remember going to the mall as a kid. My mom would take me there for back-to-school clothes shopping, and she'd essentially have to bribe me to do it (clothes shopping gave me a literal headache every time we went). We'd take an hour to get me set for school, and then we'd head over to the mall's bookstore nearby - Walden Bookstore, if y'all remember them. 😅
Putting a mall in the middle of nowhere with a giant parking lot will do that
As someone who grew up in Hacienda Heights, it is disappointing and sad to see that this mall has high vacancy. I spent my junior high & high school weekends there.
Malls started going under before online shopping.
COVID was responsible too
I'm guessing Bath & Body Works is so resilient because you can't sample smells online
Geez…the Puente Hills mall.
I still remember being there in 2012 and the mall was PACKED
You need entertainment, restaurants, high quality and also niche cafés... In Korea we also often have huge pop-up stores like Pokémon, Nintendo, Cookie Run: Kingdom, SpongeBob, Powerpuff Girls, Jurassic Park... anything you can imagine. Make it an experience and give people a reason to visit again
It’s honestly sad cause recently back in March a mall that’s been apart of my childhood closed. It really does hit once something that was so little in your life closes that meant so much and it’s honestly sad to know how everything is being closed over a convenience
my favorite movie theater closed some years ago, but sat empty ever since - until last spring, when the entire remaining standing property was razed which hit me so hard cuz part of me always hoped a miracle would happen & it could've been saved.. 😭
I miss the old days
..said every person for the last 500 years
Me, too!
When one place closes inside the mall others follow because of rent and can’t afford to be there anymore
as someone in Luxembourg, *_wtf is going on in America_* 💀