Word: malls
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After Arlene Vinson's favorite boutique in her hometown of Brea, Calif., went out of business a few years ago, her husband Norman--perplexed about what to give her for Christmas--decided that about 20 of the $50 bank-issued gift cards sold at their neighborhood mall would be the ideal gift; she could redeem them at any store in the shopping center. But nearly six months later, when Arlene tried to buy a $20.50 blouse with $2.50 in cash plus a gift card with $18 of unspent credit, the sales clerk said it couldn't be done, citing...
...hard to remember a time when CATALOGUES were "refreshing." But before the Web, mail-order shopping was a breakthrough, releasing consumers from the grip of the mall, as this TIME cover illustrates...
...largest mall shows our progress as a society." FU YUEHONG, general manager of the New Yansha Group on the company's completion in Beijing of the biggest shopping mall in the world...
Part of what I find overwhelming at the mall is how utterly blatant American consumerism is. The mall doesn’t even pretend it is about necessity items. And maybe we should be grateful for that: Your local mall (that is probably now owned and renamed by a giant corporation) is very upfront about its mission. It exists to glorify consumerism—and to include you in that project. So while I wove in and out of oncoming foot traffic making mental lists of what I “refuse...
After some urging from the maternal units, I left the mall that day with a pair of pink Velcro shoes. Displayed on their very own glass shelf, they called out to me from above the fanlike arrangements on the tables. So I blurred the line between “kind of want” and “kind of need” and we drove away with a new pair of shoes. Three months have passed, and I’m looking at them right now, cozied up inside their sleek box and patterned tissue paper. The receipt sits...