deadcatbounce ,
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They don't have clocks in casinos either so you don't notice the time.

As if shopping with your wife wasn't fun enough. "Yes dear, you look fantastic in that. No, we don't need to go to try the first one on again."

Besides teens can't tell the time on a clock with hands.

AVincentInSpace ,

Spoken like someone who has never talked to someone under the age of 25 since he was one himself

lntl ,

because i almost never go to the mall?

M137 ,
@M137@lemmy.world avatar

Outside of the US where it's pretty common with large clocks in malls. Every mall I've been in in several European countries has had one or several large clocks, often being a central point of the mall.

Plopp ,

But if you look at it the mall's manager will come and look at you angrily.

delirious_owl ,
@delirious_owl@discuss.online avatar

Aren't many malls in the EU actually train stations tho?

funkless_eck ,

what? no.

olav ,
@olav@theweird.space avatar

@kinther

At the mall, you have the option of a watch and/or phone.

But yeah, remove that and it can be maddening ~ particularly if you have no real distractions

Yokozuna ,

Fucking VR casinos are going to make so much money if/when they are implemented

Mr_Fish ,

Home casinos already exist. They're called mobile games.

Yokozuna ,

Yea, that's as well as browser slot machines. So predatory, it's really disgusting. But what they were talking about at the end of the article goes way past any of that.

billwashere ,

Because it’s hard to have a clock in something that that doesn’t exist anymore?

Maeve ,

Meh. Malls seem to be trying to come back. Apparently some magical population has not only disposable income, but also enough to waste on but just overpriced, subpar things, but enough to waste on way overpriced things to pay mall rent prices

billwashere ,

I actually miss malls… especially the arcade and the food court. And I miss the 80s. Well not so much the 80s but actually my youth, I mostly miss that. Fuck I’m old.

But honestly I had a lot of fun hanging with my friends in the mall. My kids never really got that.

Maeve ,

Arcades were fun. Asteroids and space invaders until my hands felt like concrete blocks. I was glad when pool tables were added. Youth really is wasted on the young. Mine was, anyway.

olav ,
@olav@theweird.space avatar

@billwashere
@Maeve @til

Parents dropped you off with $10 and/or allowance money and disappeared for a couple hours. Good times

billwashere ,

Exactly!!!

olav ,
@olav@theweird.space avatar

@billwashere
If you think about it, it was pretty safe. Plenty of adults and rent-a-cops around if anybody tried something shifty.

Also, food court and a movie dates :D

Maeve ,

Nah, I didn't get money from parents. I had a job though and it was good times.

olav , (edited )
@olav@theweird.space avatar

@Maeve
@kinther @billwashere @til

Roughly ages 13-16. Some point in the latter I got a job and a shitty Toyota Tercel

billwashere ,

Same… job and a shitty Toyota Celica here…

olav ,
@olav@theweird.space avatar

@billwashere

The Celica had a bigger back seat, if you know what I mean

billwashere ,

In high school, no I didn’t. 🤣

delirious_owl ,
@delirious_owl@discuss.online avatar

Wouldn't malls be cheaper rent? They're high density.

Maeve ,

Not from what I've read. I'm sure there are risks to be considered.

Auduras ,

Yeah around me I see they are trying to reinvent themselves. Usually have other entertainment options (movie theaters, bowling, arcade) or restaurants (true "sit-down" restaurants, not the food courts) attached to them now. Where before they were solely filled with retail stores.

Maeve ,

The malls where I grew up had sit down restaurants, with beverage licenses. One made a fabulous blue concoction (coricou) akin to Texas tea.

jol ,

Is this an American thing? Malls have never gone away and have always been full all my life.

olav ,
@olav@theweird.space avatar

@jol
@billwashere

They exist in the US but a lot of them are dead or dying. Among other things they have failed to innovate in the face of e-commerce so people can buy the same things without leaving home barring any other draw

jol ,

I guess this is related to the fact most Americans live in suburbs, so driving 40 minutes to the mall seems pretty inconvenient.

user224 ,
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

The longer you stay, the more you spend

I feel like this works the other way around for me. If I am there for longer, I start doubting the stuff I put in my cart. If I am there for even longer, I start checking online only to find that I could even get it considerably cheaper elsewhere, so I put it back... and never end up buying it from elsewhere anyway, because I had all the time to decide.

Maeve ,

That's because people like us are on budgets, formal or not.

WhatsHerBucket ,
@WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world avatar

Also the same for casinos and bars. Didn’t consider it for the mall though!

TWeaK ,

Same thing with pubs/bars.

FollyDolly ,
@FollyDolly@lemmy.world avatar

It's basically The Backrooms but you can buy things.

MrJameGumb ,
@MrJameGumb@lemmy.world avatar

I always kind of assumed that was why big stores like Walmart never have any windows except at the entrance lol

metallic_substance ,

That's as much about security and energy costs as it is about anything else

dustyData ,

The casino school of architecture or leisure design style. That's why being at one hotel/casino/cruise/mall feels like being at any other. And it's so hard for those places to actually differentiate or posses an unique brand.

Anticorp ,

Windows cost money and take up valuable display shelf space.

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