Do you still visit malls?

WHAT DO YOU DO WHILE AT THE MALL?


I STOPPED GOING WHEN PHYSICAL MEDIA STORES WENT EXTINCT.

I love malls, even if I am not looking to buy a specific item. I love window shopping, browsing through stores, eating at the food court. I probably go once or twice a month, sometimes more, sometimes less.

I do for occasional purchases. But, without Sony or Suncoast around, Malls are just about food and apparel.

Yes. Not on a regular basis, but if I don't have to buy something online, I try not to. Because of winter being so sucky here, I would prefer to go to a mall to one of those "retail centres" where all the entrances are outside. In winter they aren't really walking friendly, so if I want to wander from store to store, I have to drive.

Sure.

They're still popping where I live.

I usually get my bagels from a bakery in a nearby mall.

I also buy bleach to rinse my eyes for every time I find a new Kowalski picture.

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Only to walk through them to get where I'm going. Does that count as visiting?

The last time I was in a mall (the Bangor Mall in Maine) was in 2015, and I was only there to kill time until the movie I went to see at the Bangor Mall Cinemas (which isn't actually a part of the Bangor Mall; it's a separate building that's close to the mall) started. That was also the last time I watched a movie in a theater, and it sucked wicked hard (Disney Wars: The Force Awakens).

I used to go to the Bangor Mall a lot, despite it being about a 45-minute drive from my hometown. When I was a kid in the '80s we often went to Bangor on Friday nights. And when I got my driver's license in the early 1990s I drove to Bangor a lot, usually taking my friends Corey and Ian along, and sometimes my cousin Mike too. We would usually play pool at a place called Top Spot (which was in Bangor, but not at the mall) and play arcade games at Space Port at the mall, as well as just walking around the mall looking for chicks.

Once I got a PC and internet access in 2001, the incentive to go to Bangor for anything at all was greatly diminished. Items I used to only be able to find at stores in Bangor could easily be found online, and Space Port was either gone, or, if still hanging on by a thread at the time, it no longer had any of the '80s and early '90s games that I cared about.

Only when its absolutely necessary. Sometimes I pickup Doordash orders from the Food Court. For Personal Shopping I only went inside my local mall once in the past year and that was to get my router replaced from my internet provider. I hate the mall and its nothing but a magnet for crime and low lives.