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Re:Can the American mall survive? by tablespoon on Monday September 12, 2022 @10:13AM (#32810578)
> Would anything of value be lost if it didn't?

Yeah: online shopping is terrible, especially for clothes. If shopping malls die, your options will be online or driving all around town between strip malls and the like.

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Re:Can the American mall survive? by omginternets on Monday September 12, 2022 @12:14PM (#32812509)
The choice isn’t between malls and the internet. There are plenty of brick-and-mortar stores in, say, town centers.
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Re:Can the American mall survive? by caradine on Monday September 12, 2022 @12:56PM (#32813100)
Or living in a walkable city, or advocating for walkable areas in your city/town.
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Re:Can the American mall survive? by tablespoon on Monday September 12, 2022 @03:29PM (#32815555)
> Or living in a walkable city,

So, basically: be rich or make worse tradeoffs in other areas?

> or advocating for walkable areas in your city/town.

Doubt that would happen in any reasonable timeframe, with any amount of certainty. In the mean time, I still have to buy clothes.

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