Word: malling
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...first glance, there are still plenty of signs of the good life to which this nation of 320,000 had grown accustomed. The parking lot of Kringlan shopping center in Reykjavík is filled with sparkling Audis, Range Rovers and Mercedes. But inside the mall, bleary, blond-haired Icelanders pace the floor like zombies going through the motions of their former existence. "How can I rest easy knowing that everything I've saved all my life is gone?" asks a red-eyed advertising consultant dressed in a woolly cardigan and slippers as he sits in the food court...
...HITACHI, JAPAN The Mall is Closed For Taira Kamoshida, the founder and the owner of a successful dry-cleaning chain in the small Japanese city of Hitachi (pop. 195,000), the bad news hit like a bolt from the blue. On Sept. 26, Kamoshida was told by his management office that Hitachi's main shopping mall was closing its doors - and one of his dry-cleaning shops located there was instantly out of business. "There was no sign at all of the closing down," says Kamoshida, 63. "On the contrary, my store finally started to break even and was even...
...first glance, there are still plenty of signs of the good life to which this nation of 320,000 had grown accustomed. The parking lot of Kringlan shopping center in Reykjavík is filled with sparkling Audis, Range Rovers and Mercedes. But inside the mall, bleary, blond-haired Icelanders pace the floor like zombies going through the motions of their former existence. "How can I rest easy knowing that everything I've saved all my life is gone?" asks a red-eyed advertising consultant dressed in a woolly cardigan and slippers as he sits in the food court...
...Well, for a while we had an ongoing discussion about whether or not I was going to get Botox. He's a doctor so he's always concerned. He considers that a medical procedure; I was making the argument that something done in a mall next to a Cinnabon can't truly be dangerous. But just between the two of us, he thinks of me as a youthful person. I guess that makes me feel more youthful. I hardly ever do complain [about my age] because I think that's one of the things you should not do. But when...
...seems to be playing on the mall speakers all the time. Yup. Him and Michael Bublé. Luckily, the soundproofing in the units is really good...