Global Recession and Shopping Malls

[uplana]

Do you think that worldwide recession might have hit swanky shopping malls across the globe. Shopping online is a good alternative of saving money in the period of ecenomic slowdown. What are your views?

 

[jb100]

The recent economic recession has hit almost all industries across the globe.Shopping malls are not spared.Of course Online stores are least affected.I do agree we can save money and time through online shopping.But the effect of slow down is felt every where.

 

[colin]

Hello


The vital signs are not good. Even before the recession hit, consumers had developed mall fatigue, and the classic enclosed shopping mall was in decline. More than 400 of the 2,000 largest malls in the U.S. have closed in the past two years. The last new major mall in the U.S. opened in 2006, and only one big mall is scheduled to open this year—the troubled Xanadu mega-mall in Rutherford, N.J. (See below.) With some 150,000 retail stores projected to fail in the U.S. this year, more mall closings are imminent. Mall mainstays such as Mervyn’s department stores, Linens ’n Things, and KB Toys have already disappeared into bankruptcy, and mall vacancy rates topped 7 percent last year, the highest level since 2001. “It’s an absolute disaster,” says Howard Davidowitz, an investment banker specializing in retailers. “What a mall represents is discretionary spending, and discretionary spending is in a depression.”


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