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Originally Posted by miketoronto
Joking a side this is what makes malls and sadly many of our inner city retail districts boring now, because it is all the same stuff.
I remember growing up that yes regional malls had chain stores. But they also had an interesting little collection of unique mom and pop restaurants and stuff.
The big regional mall near my house had this amazing family run restaurant that was a local institution to go to. Sadly it closed when the family retired.
But now the malls don't have that anymore. Its all Milestones, Jack Astors, etc. Nothing unique.
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Mainstream shopping in Canada today overwhelmingly consists of spending significant amounts of time purchasing foreign crap that is not really needed from mass chain merchants who sell much the same foreign crap (distinguished only by marketing and "image"). I'm convinced that the only reason many people still go to malls and big box outlets rather than buying on-line is that they really don't have any worthwhile activities to occupy their rather mind-numbing lives. It's sad and even rather disturbing, actually, especially as the economy would probably collapse if people stopped doing it.
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