Shopping Malls
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Coogan: High-end experiential retail is the only way modern malls survive
“I feel like that has been the secret to success with the modern mall. There's a lot of malls that have sort of mid-tier or low-end retailers where it is actually pretty comparable to shopping online. You go in, there's no one that's really going to talk to you…”
Poddar: Malls must curate tenant ecosystems or risk dead floors
“They have to create an ecosystem. They cannot have five rows of chocolate and ice cream in coffee shops. It's an ecosystem which I've learned, and it's a very hard business they are also cracking. So how do, if I started… They trusted Rare Rabbit, they give a …”
Hertz: UK shopping malls deploy high-frequency sound devices to repel youth
“There's even cases in shopping malls in the United Kingdom, where in order to keep out undesirable youths they emit a very high sonic pitch sound, which only young people can hear a very unpleasant sound.”
Hertz: Some shopping malls use acne-revealing lighting to discourage teenagers
“They also put special lights in the bathrooms of these malls, which expose teenage acne, so that young people won't want to spend time there.”
Jeff Jordan: About 25% of US malls face vacancy rates above 30%
“There's something like a quarter of malls have over 30% of their storefronts vacant.”