Malls

Shopping Malls Aren't Dead for the One Percent

HuffingtonPost.com | Alice Hines | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Sears, Luxury Spending, Dead Malls, Kmart, Mall at Short Hills, Taubman Center, Income Inequality, Luxury Goods, Wage Gap, Malls, Beverly Center, Commercial Real Estate, Shopping Malls, Upscale Mall, Business News

In a still-ailing economy, shopping centers are the latest incarnations of the widening wealth gap. Indeed, go to a luxury mall owned by Taubman C...

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The Death of an American Tradition

Vivian Weng | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Ecommerce, Online Retail, Pop Up Stores, Virtual Shopping, Pop Up Shops, Virtual Shopping Malls, Shopping Malls, Malls, Business News

It's no secret that the relevancy of the American shopping mall has plummeted with the rise of e-commerce, but the question still remains: What will happen to the vacant shells that previously housed America's most beloved stores?

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The Mall Of Big Dreams, Few Shoppers

HuffingtonPost.com | Alice Hines | Posted 12.23.2011

Read More: Valiotis, Art Gallery, Condos, Real Estate Boom, Unemployment, Urban Decay, Paterson Nj, Manufacturing, Center City, Malls, Recession, Business News

PATERSON, N.J. -- On a Saturday in mid-December, one of the busiest shopping days of the year in a nation famous for insatiable consumption, the Cente...

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The 8 Germiest Places In The Mall

Posted 11.25.2011

Read More: Mall Germs, Holiday Shopping, Video, Malls, Sick, Germs, Healthy Holiday Shopping, Healthy Living News

By Cari Wira Dineen During the craziness of the holidays, the last thing you want is to get sidelined with a cold, flu, stomach bug -- or worse. ...

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Bing's New Feature Will Help Shoppers With Smartphones Navigate Crowded Malls

The Huffington Post | Megan Hess | Posted 10.04.2011

Read More: Bing, Maps, Shopping, Microsoft, Bing Maps, Bing Mall Maps Mobile, Malls, Microsoft Bing, Technology News

Microsoft's search engine, Bing, announced on Wednesday that the company's mapping service has added floor plans for about 400 shopping malls to the B...

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The Casino Next Door: How Gambling Snuck Into The Mall

BusinessWeek | Felix Gillette | Posted 06.24.2011

Read More: Gambling, Casinos, Money Laundering, Malls, Economy, American Economy, Business News

Inside a one-story building on the edge of a strip mall in Central Florida, Joy Baker calculates the sum total of her morning bets. It's almost noon, ...

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Going on a Book Tour? Dream Big or Stay Home

Melanie Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Dreams, Waldenbooks, B. Dalton, Malls, Book Tours, Readers, Alice I Have Been, Bookstores, Melanie Benjamin, Hickory Farms, Books News

After publishing my first book, I packed my bags, used up all of my husband's Marriott points, and hit the road -- only to experience what many authors had experienced before me.

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Chicago Debates -- The Malling of Chicago

Edward Lifson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Architecture, Urbanism, Malls, Thanksgiving 2010, Shopping, Black Friday, Suburbs, Walmart, Debate, Chicago, Development, City Planning, Chicago News

Is Chicago becoming the "Suburb of the Century" in the twenty-first? Are big box retailers eating up our neighborhoods? If you care about our city, be a part of the debate.

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Modernism, Fresno and the Future of a City's Heart

Charles A. Birnbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pedestrian Malls, Modernism, Modernist Landscape Architecture, Urban Revitalization, Urban Planning, Fresno, Architecture, Retail, Malls, Fulton Mall, Garrett Eckbo, Arts News

The face of US post-war urban planning was irrevocably changed with the opening of Fresno, California's Fulton Mall, in 1964.

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Will Barnes And Noble Closings Leave Landlords In The Cold?

startribune.com | DON JACOBSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barnes and Noble, Barnes, Book Publishing, Bricks and Mortar, Landlord, Chain Stores, Shopping Malls, Tenant, Booksellers, Malls, Downsize, Bookstores, Books News

As a "bricks-and-mortar" business in a bookselling world that's rapidly adopting digital downloads, fears are creeping in that a new Barnes & Noble ow...

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When Did it Become Cool to Shop With Mom?

Catherine Moellering | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shopping With Parents, Mall, Materialism, Shopping, Intermix, Shopping With Mom, Generation X, Malls, Generation Y, Style News

When I was a teenager, the thought of going shopping with my Mom seemed about as fun as taking the SATs. Nowadays, tons of teens are shopping alongside their moms willingly and cheerfully.

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Losing that Mall State of Mind

Jane Minogue | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Layoffs, Ipod, Cobra, Apple Stores, Shopping, Shopping Malls, Malls, Russians, Recession, Healthy Living News

The recession hit us at the end of 2007 and it's been a long time since I've shopped at my local mall.

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Aging And Abercrombie

Irene Zutell | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Ageism, Aging, Abercrombie and Fitch, Clothes, Malls, Moms, Mom Jeans, Shopping, Fashion Trends, Healthy Living News

Now that I'm over 30...okay 35, okay 40, if you must know, I'm learning all about the horrors of ageism. And never is that more rampant than at the lo...

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Mallrats Return: More People Flock To Malls...But Just To Hang Out

New York Times | Stephanie Rosenbloom | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mall Walking, Food Court, Mall Rats, Mall Food Court, Shopping Mall, Malls, Mall Shopping, Style News

For more than a decade, malls have donned the trappings of community centers. Mall owners installed free or low-cost amenities like jogging routes, re...

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Empty Malls

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: US Economy, Malls, Teenagers, Political Cartoons, Cartoon, Politics News

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Paul Blart: Mall Cop. More Real Than Reviewers

Douglas MacKinnon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rob Schneider, Holiday Shopping, Entertainment, Kevin James, Economy, The New York Times, New York Times, Malls, Shopping Mall, Adam Sandler, Christmas Shopping, Shopping Malls, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Film, Movies, Entertainment News

How dare we derive pleasure from a movie that elitist reviewers writing for a minute collection of fellow elitists have deemed prosaic, unimaginative, and beneath them.

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Wisconsin Mall Brawl Sees Three Arrested (VIDEO)

MSNBC/Local News | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Consumer Confidence, Video, Malls, Shopping, Brawls, Mall Brawl, Home News

Three men were arrested when a brawl broke out at the Mayfair Mall in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin the day after Christmas. Local news reports: The big-tim...

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Determined, Young Israelis Make The Hard Sell To Christmas Shoppers

Wall Street Journal | ILAN BRAT and MIRIAM JORDAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mall Kiosks, Malls, Holiday Shopping, Business News

At malls across the country, shoppers are being besieged by a determined crop of salespeople: young Israelis who man mobile carts and have a no-holds-...

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Is the American Shopping Mall Dead?

Newsweek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Consumer Spending, Financial Crisis, Depression, Consumerism, Malls, Finance, Economy, Business News

There's something growing in the New Jersey Meadowlands, the marsh just nine miles west of Manhattan--and it isn't the gentle ferns that the bucolic n...

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Sales, Dollar Plunge; Oil Soars

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.S. Retail Sales, Consumerism, Weak Sales, Retail, Retail Sales, Shopping, Weak Dollar, Recession Fears, U.S. Consumers, Commerce Department, Recession, Credit Crunch, Consumers, Mall Sales, Malls, Business News

WASHINGTON — Oil hit a record high, the dollar sank again, and consumers stopped buying pretty much everything. Stocks kept gyrating, too, on T...

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Retail Retrenchment Hurts Malls

AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Going Out of Business, Shopping Malls, Shopping, Retailers, Malls, Discounts, Business News

The signs that smaller retailers are struggling are unavoidable at malls across America: "Going out of business" sales at many Wilsons Leather stores....

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Al-Qaeda's Notes For Planned Mall Attacks

236.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Al Qaeda, Al Qaeda Intelligence, Al Qaeda in Malls, Malls, Home News

The FBI is warning that al-Qaeda may be preparing a series of December attacks on U.S. shopping malls in Los Angeles and Chicago, according to an inte...

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