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Subject: Gen Z are saving Shopping Malls
Written By: mc98 on 06/29/19 at 9:44 pm
They're not just an online generation after all. It's actually true though, I went to my local mall yesterday and there were plenty of teens and college aged people there.
https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/news-opinion/gen-z-is-making-the-mall-cool-again
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/2019/04/30/millennials_killed_shopping_malls_gen_z_revived_them_41604.html
https://marketingland.com/gen-z-shoppers-offer-new-hope-for-the-mall-261422
https://www.icsc.org/news-and-views/icsc-exchange/gen-z-shoppers-find-physical-stores-way-cooler-than-e-tail-icsc-study-finds
https://thecrux.com/articles/millennials-tried-to-kill-the-american-mall-but-gen-z-might-save-it
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gregpetro/2019/04/05/shopping-malls-arent-dying-theyre-evolving/
Subject: Re: Gen Z are saving Shopping Malls
Written By: BornIn86 on 06/30/19 at 2:38 pm
Makes sense. Malls are the best places for teens to hangout at.
Subject: Re: Gen Z are saving Shopping Malls
Written By: 2001 on 06/30/19 at 3:26 pm
If you've been reading the "People stopped going to the mall in 2008" thread you would realize it's me who's saving the mall
Subject: Re: Gen Z are saving Shopping Malls
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/19 at 1:09 pm
It's people of all ages that are saving the shopping malls!
I have done my bit too!
Subject: Re: Gen Z are saving Shopping Malls
Written By: exodus08 on 07/02/19 at 1:11 pm
I still go to malls. ???
Subject: Re: Gen Z are saving Shopping Malls
Written By: Howard on 07/03/19 at 3:04 pm
I still go to malls. ???
What is your experience of the mall today?
Subject: Re: Gen Z are saving Shopping Malls
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/19 at 3:07 pm
What is your experience of the mall today?
I may be in one over the weekend.
Subject: Re: Gen Z are saving Shopping Malls
Written By: exodus08 on 07/03/19 at 4:18 pm
What is your experience of the mall today?
It feels the same like it did 10 years ago
Subject: Re: Gen Z are saving Shopping Malls
Written By: wixness on 07/03/19 at 5:49 pm
I think that the increasingly negative perception of social networks for causing drama and being intrusive regarding privacy might have played a part in this. In my experience, I think it's too soon to call, at least where I live here in the UK.
Subject: Re: Gen Z are saving Shopping Malls
Written By: Howard on 07/04/19 at 7:28 am
It feels the same like it did 10 years ago
What about 30 or 40 years ago?
Subject: Re: Gen Z are saving Shopping Malls
Written By: exodus08 on 07/04/19 at 12:52 pm
What about 30 or 40 years ago?
20 years ago yes! not sure about 30 or 40.
Subject: Re: Gen Z are saving Shopping Malls
Written By: Howard on 07/04/19 at 2:18 pm
20 years ago yes! not sure about 30 or 40.
Back then 30 or 40 years ago, people were shopping in malls more often then they do now.
Subject: Re: Gen Z are saving Shopping Malls
Written By: mach!ne_he@d on 07/05/19 at 11:51 am
Yeah, I haven't noticed any mall around here getting more active, but I do hope that this is accurate. The thing I dislike more than anything about this decade is the number of malls and major stores being closed due to the rise of online shopping. Plus, with downloading stuff like video games being bigger, buying actual copies of stuff looks like it's going out of style too, which I also dislike.
Subject: Re: Gen Z are saving Shopping Malls
Written By: Howard on 07/05/19 at 1:34 pm
Yeah, I haven't noticed any mall around here getting more active, but I do hope that this is accurate. The thing I dislike more than anything about this decade is the number of malls and major stores being closed due to the rise of online shopping. Plus, with downloading stuff like video games being bigger, buying actual copies of stuff looks like it's going out of style too, which I also dislike.
That's the world we're living in these days, stores are closing because of online shopping and I think online shopping is winning over instead of going to a store itself because people think it's quicker and faster. My Father shops for bathroom toiletries such as shampoos, mousse, toothpaste and body wash soap just to name a few.
Subject: Re: Gen Z are saving Shopping Malls
Written By: 2012emo on 07/06/19 at 6:11 am
Yeah, I haven't noticed any mall around here getting more active, but I do hope that this is accurate. The thing I dislike more than anything about this decade is the number of malls and major stores being closed due to the rise of online shopping. Plus, with downloading stuff like video games being bigger, buying actual copies of stuff looks like it's going out of style too, which I also dislike.
out of curiosity, why do you dislike that?
Subject: Re: Gen Z are saving Shopping Malls
Written By: mach!ne_he@d on 07/06/19 at 11:25 am
out of curiosity, why do you dislike that?
Because I like to own actual copies of the stuff that I buy. That might mostly be because I grew up during the '90s and early '00s, when downloading video games wasn't a thing and you actually had to buy a copy of the game, but I've always preferred it that way.
Subject: Re: Gen Z are saving Shopping Malls
Written By: Howard on 07/06/19 at 2:48 pm
And what are the past generations saving? ???
Subject: Re: Gen Z are saving Shopping Malls
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/19 at 4:03 am
I may be in one over the weekend.
...and I was!
Are all generations saving the malls?
Subject: Re: Gen Z are saving Shopping Malls
Written By: Howard on 07/09/19 at 7:29 am
...and I was!
Are all generations saving the malls?
some generations might be shopping online.
Subject: Re: Gen Z are saving Shopping Malls
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/19 at 7:31 am
some generations might be shopping online.
I find it to be the younger generations that shop online, I am still old hat and prefer to shop in the shops.
Subject: Re: Gen Z are saving Shopping Malls
Written By: Howard on 07/09/19 at 2:06 pm
I find it to be the younger generations that shop online, I am still old hat and prefer to shop in the shops.
I'm the older generation and I once in a while go mall shopping but overall, I shop online.
Subject: Re: Gen Z are saving Shopping Malls
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/19 at 2:08 pm
I'm the older generation and I once in a while go mall shopping but overall, I shop online.
...to get the feel of the item you are about to purchase online?
Subject: Re: Gen Z are saving Shopping Malls
Written By: 2012emo on 07/30/19 at 12:10 pm
i just wish we were saving the planet instead of shopping malls :/