Word: malling
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Some Americans, and certainly the banks, don’t see a need for tighter regulation of credit and/or debit cards. If people can’t stop themselves from spending money at the mall, they should have to suffer the consequences, even if the shape those consequences might take is never entirely clear. That’s one theory. Another line of reasoning: Much of what governs people’s behavior when it comes to credit and debit cards are poorly designed rules, which allow things like overdraft services to systematically take advantage of people?...
...best club - keep going until the following afternoon. There's always a risk that gentrification will spoil the vibe. One of the biggest haunts in the early 1990s was Tresor, a subterranean space near Potsdamer Platz. The club shut down when the area was turned into a giant shopping mall. The Love Parade, an annual techno festival that drew as many as a million people to the streets of Berlin every summer, took place for the last time there in 2006 because of a dispute over who should pay for picking up the mounds of trash. "There's a difficult...
...innards of the two-story metal structure have been gutted to make way for smooth concrete floors, diamond white walls and racks of clothing from Icelandic retailer, Nikita. Just a year ago, the same building was being readied for demolition. In its place were plans for an ultramodern shopping mall stretching several blocks across the capital's commercial district. Then came the crash...
...recently “The Departed.” In each of these movies, there is a clear reason why Boston is crucial to the plot—Harvard, MIT, police brutality. But consider these movies: “Bride Wars,” “Paul Bart: Mall Cop,” and“Pink Panther 2.” Believe it or not, each of these movies (and many other box office bombs like them) were also recently filmed in the greater Boston area...
When I reported my failure to Lauren Weber, author of In Cheap We Trust, she told me my whole plan was faulty. "Stay away from Ikea, stay away from the mall, stay away from Costco," she said. "How often do you walk in and walk out with 50 pounds of M&Ms?" She said some other useful stuff after that, but I was already out the door to go to Costco to buy a 50-pound bag of M&Ms. (See 10 things to buy during the recession...