The Importance Of Shopping Malls

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Shopping malls have become meeting places, similar to town halls in the old west. Malls are where people go to explore and experience everything retailers have to offer while indulging in their own personal sport of acquiring different products. The question of what malls bring to society has been questioned for years do they promote rapid consumerism or a life of luxury. Victor Gruen, the inventor of shopping malls, saw these centers as a source of community similar to his homeland in Europe. Most malls represent a safe and controlled nature of human development and leisure. In the following article, I will be discussing the security preventions that shopping malls of today provide. I will also be discussing the enhancements in structures …show more content…

Not of their passions, or careers or struggles, but of themselves. The perfect examples of this expressionism are the invention of the selfie. Millennials are constantly photographing and logging themselves into everything that they do. Shopping malls are taking the traditions of the photo booth and giving them slight upgrades. Photo booths in certain malls around the world are becoming more technologically advanced and have configured a way to not only take a photo in the booth like traditional mall photo booths but now clients can upload their pictures from the mall photo booth to their own personal social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat right there at the mall versus receiving a hard copy of the …show more content…

Places such as coffee shops and lounges have been included in the structures of these malls to give consumers a more comfortable feeling of relaxation. Instead of shopping and leaving people are more enticed to sit back and relax. Enjoying a meal and a cup of coffee while shopping has become a time consuming yet enjoyable process for most shoppers. It's suggested that the longer a person stays the more money they are bound to spend. Mall managers and scientist are not attempting to manipulate the consumer but more so enhance their shopping experience. There's also a sense of creativity and connectivity found in calming environments such as coffee shops that establishments like shopping malls are trying to bring to the shopping

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