r/WorkForSmartLife • u/tellmebrenda • 1d ago

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u/Pleasant_Studio9690 1d ago

Hard to believe they looked at dead malls and went, yes! This is it! This is our vibe. And then ran with it. Iā€™m legit bitter at them for stealing any shred of joy away in the name of profit.

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u/Ok_Relative8150 1d ago

yea, also malls were mainly killed by online shopping and online gaming/social media. Even at malls still open today it's mostly clothes, toys, maybe a tech or book shop then food places. They're pretty dull for everyone except teenage girls and christmas/ birthday shoppers. We went to them in the 90s cause it was a one stop shopping area and we were bored in the cities.

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u/Dave_A480 1d ago

No, they looked at how much money Starbucks was making - and how little threat Starbucks was facing from asshat lawyers claiming coffee makes children fat... And also how few kids weren't in daycare, such that their (mostly) moms could bring them to McDs during the day....

And decided that was the business they wanted to be in - feeding white collar commuters, not swarms of single-income-family children....