On Sat, 7 Jan 2017 09:27:34 -0600, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote:

On 1/6/2017 11:21 PM, wrote:
On 06 Jan 2017 03:41:11 GMT, Puckdropper
puckdropper(at)yahoo(dot)com wrote:

Ed Pawlowski wrote in
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What value? Liability for rent I can see but the era of the mall is
over.

Going back some years we used to go to the mall a couple of times a
month to shop, maybe have lunch or at least a snack. I bet it has
been 3 years since I set foot in a mall, but less than a week since I
made a purchase on line. Sales on line are up 17% last year according
to NBC news.

Amazon also lets me place orders in my underwear. Macy's frowns upon
it.

Malls are now all about the shallow side of the human: cell phones,
clothes, etc. The stores that capture and captivate your attention are
rare. There used to be a Radioshack in every mall (you've got questions,
we've got cell phones!), as well as a KB Toys. Some still have
bookstores, but even they are going to standalone stores.

In Houston we still have a few malls that you would dare step foot into
but the enclosed shopping concept is loosing favor to the large strip
centers. The problem with malls is that you don't know where to park
and you cannot walk directly into the store you want to go to. A mall
is like going to Ikea.

Again, I think the difference is weather. In the North, mega-malls
are still popular because one can get out and walk in the Winter
without freezing. In the South, this isn't a problem even in the
Summer.

Don't understand your Ikea reference. We have a store but parking is
trivial. It's all in the basement levels of the store (two levels of
parking and two of store). We've only been there twice in the five
years we've been here (don't like driving on the streets in large
cities) but we just happened to be there a couple of weeks ago.