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Anyone still go to the mall?

I go just about every week. All the malls from my childhood are either closed or on there way out which sucks but there is a mall still open about 20 mins or so from my house. It only sucks because I don't have the same connection with it as I did the other malls since I never went there as a kid. It is what it is tho. It's always packed there so I guess I can't complain. I got some interesting stories from that mall XD.

might end up going today.


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Reply by z0mbalex [X....x]

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i love going to the mall! i live in the uk tho so we don't have hot topic <\\\3 but hmv and game r cool


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Reply by Charlie&Wolfie

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Kind of! I can't drive so my options for a mall are either long bus ride or long bike ride so it's not like I go that regularly, but I love going whenever I can! Usually if there's a special event or a movie or something.


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Reply by Aurora wolf

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Honestly hot topic isn't what it use to be. I mostly go to spensors. It's way better my opinion. Never heard of those other stores though. I wonder if they will ever put a hot topic across the ocean


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Reply by Aurora wolf

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Your malls have events?! Thats awesome. The malls by me stopped doing cool stuff years ago. I'm kinda jelouse lol


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Reply by Lowfe

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I still go fairly often, the only reason I don't go more often is because of transportation. A few days ago though I was at the mall with one of my best friends for 7 hours and we had a great time just hanging out


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Reply by Aurora wolf

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O cool what kind of stores do you go to at your mall?


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Reply by _3v1e_

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Yeah i do! i was to young to be in the emo/scene scene when it was sorta popular, but im unpleased with hot topic. Just 3 days ago one of the studs on my belt broke off, and im kinda pissed about that. Also all the malls by where i live are crappy.


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Reply by Aurora wolf

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Dude I don't even bother with hot topic. It's so watered down. It's like diet spensors lol. Haven't been to that mall in about 3 weeks. I wanna go this week but I'll be super busy:/ I've been going to to the mall.by my house which isn't the best mall lol it's probably gonna close by the end of the year


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Reply by Bennett

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i love the mall. Tbh by me its all i can rlly do esp with friends >~<


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Reply by Aurora wolf

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Wow really? I thought I lived in a small town. I mostly just go to hang out but every once in a while I go and get cloths and shoes and whatnot. It's a great place to wander around until they close. There is an arcade attached to it too



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Reply by xxRebellious_Emmaxx

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Yes. I've been a mall rat throughout my entire life. Hell I even wrote an essay about how much I enjoyed going to the mall as a 5 year old in kindergarten (which should probably tell you a lot about me as apparently, most little kids are the complete inverse and hate going to the mall).  

I visit the mall at least once a month, if not more often. Even if I don't end up buying anything while I'm there, I just enjoy the experience of getting dressed and going out to a mall for some reason.


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Reply by Aurora wolf

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I'm the same way. I love going yo certain stores and hang out with friends. I friends with alot of the employees at the stores I go to so that always fun to catch up and hang out with them too. To be honest I usually don't buy anything besides like hi-chews or a shirt here or there. I got shoes last time I was there a zumiez. It's so much more fun to go to the mall than to go online



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Reply by per0x1de pr1ncess

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ughghhh a lot of malls have truly lost the allure... everything has gotten worse. there's one near me i'm lucky it somehow still feels very early 2000s. the vibes are dirty, dingy, there's a hot topic and a spencer's...... i miss being turned loose w my friends to buy the stupidest clothes of all time


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Reply by Aurora wolf

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That's how the mall is by my house. The roof leaks the stores all mostly moved out because the owner is an ass. The inside of the mall hasn't changed a bit since I was a kid but it's now just a haunting shell of it's prior self. Is yours empty?



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Reply by niki_ki

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I rarely leave the house, but sometimes I go (when I go outside) to the shopping center. I meet friends at or near a shopping center


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Reply by Aurora wolf

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Malls are a good place to go skateboarding at



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Reply by xxRebellious_Emmaxx

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There's a dying mall pretty close to me (about a 30 minute drive or a 1 hour bus ride, further away from the one that I usually go to closer to home that seems to be doing alright in direct contrast to the dying one).

I visit that one sometimes (as I have all throughout my childhood), though it feels like a ghost town nowadays compared to how it did 10 years ago (hell, it was still less vacant 5 years ago compared to now). There are a lot of store vacancies, only 3 restaurants at the food court (where hardly anybody goes nowadays), not many other people walking around, and hell, they even shut down the water fountains that used to be by the elevators on the 1st floor. It feels a lot different walking in there now compared to how it did during my childhood and it's sad to think about.

I've taken my digital camera and captured some photos and videos of that mall for future reference if/when the ongoing retail apocalypse finally sends that mall all the way into its grave, as it already has with plenty of other malls across the US since the 2010s. The COVID-19 pandemic also didn't help here as that was yet another driving force in the retail apocalypse (and seems to have been the final nail in the coffin for many already dying businesses that were struggling prior to March 2020).


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Reply by Aurora wolf

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Very true the mall that I mentioned is going up for auction this month and I hope someone buys it and is able to revamp it. It's got alot of potential. I'm going for a tour of all the closed shops probably Saturday so I can't wait for that


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