I went to the Mall yesterday. The one I went to was Mapleview in Burlington. Whenever we drive by that Mall, I still see the original farm with old-style greenhouses on the vast grounds that are now parking lots.
That would be more than a year and a half since I'd been in a mall or most retail stores. There are many kinds of places that we haven't been in since March 2019.
Malls and corporate office towers are very similar - shining granite and marble floors and walls in neutral colours. Everything so clean and entirely impersonal. The 'death of the shopping mall' has been in progress for years with the drop in revenue continuous. Before February 2020, the drop in revenue per square foot was 42 per cent. But then the pandemic came along.Malls may not be going down yet.
I was there just as it opened at 11:00am and left just before 12:30pm. It started to fill up as the 12:00 hour approached. The people that were there seemed impatient to get started with normal again. Both young and old were there. There were quite a few 'super seniors' out for a look-see walk in the stores. Yes, everyone was out for a stroll in the Mall. Will this be part of a new normal? What will the social environment be post-2019 pandemic? Will Malls remain part of it? I ask this as it is my generation that experienced the rise of the Malls.
Let's enjoy some of the shopping/mall jokes of the past.
What is cheaper and more effective than a psychiatrist? Going shopping at a mall.
I saw a man with one arm shopping at a second hand store. I told him “you’re not going to find what you’re looking for.”
An atheist comes into a mall And there is no parking spot, so he says "God, if you give me parking spot, I will convert myself and become Christian". Two minutes later he says "Nevermind I found one"
I fell asleep at the mall today... I was counting customers leaving the Apple store
There's a lot of fun in playing spin-the-dial on images with Flexifly - our Floyd Elzinga montage image has a few variations today.
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