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WookieMan
2021 Sep 9, 5:13am
WookieMan
2021 Sep 9, 5:13am
ohomen171 says
Don't want to turn this into an EV debate, but this is exactly why EV's are dead to the vast majority of people.
We've also all known malls are dead. Bezos killed them.
Also, why wouldn't you have fully charged before going to the mall to get a charge? That's like leaving the house with the gas light on and waiting for AAA to bring a can of gas. 70 minutes is time and money if you make it. I'll fill up my tank once it hits half talk. I need 400 miles and 5 min fuel up. Until that happens EVs don't work for my needs.
I am getting a golf cart for tooling around town in the next week. So I'm kind of getting into the EV market. Replacing the lead acid batteries with Lithium Ion. Holy shark taint, f'ing expensive. But they should last a decade with no maintenance. So if I keep it for 10 years it averages out to about $16-17/mo for the batteries. Not sure what the electric bill will look like, but probably only use it March to October.
I had one hour and ten minutes to wait while the car was charging.
Don't want to turn this into an EV debate, but this is exactly why EV's are dead to the vast majority of people.
We've also all known malls are dead. Bezos killed them.
Also, why wouldn't you have fully charged before going to the mall to get a charge? That's like leaving the house with the gas light on and waiting for AAA to bring a can of gas. 70 minutes is time and money if you make it. I'll fill up my tank once it hits half talk. I need 400 miles and 5 min fuel up. Until that happens EVs don't work for my needs.
I am getting a golf cart for tooling around town in the next week. So I'm kind of getting into the EV market. Replacing the lead acid batteries with Lithium Ion. Holy shark taint, f'ing expensive. But they should last a decade with no maintenance. So if I keep it for 10 years it averages out to about $16-17/mo for the batteries. Not sure what the electric bill will look like, but probably only use it March to October.
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clambo
2021 Sep 9, 6:17am
Malls are a nightmare unless it's somewhere upscale.
Otherwise it's appalling to see the zombies with kids looking to buy shit they couldn't afford in the foreign piss hole they immigrated from.
My only satisfaction is seeing them shuffle into an Apple store.
Thanks for paying me my dividend, wage slaves.
Otherwise it's appalling to see the zombies with kids looking to buy shit they couldn't afford in the foreign piss hole they immigrated from.
My only satisfaction is seeing them shuffle into an Apple store.
Thanks for paying me my dividend, wage slaves.
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zzyzzx
2021 Sep 9, 7:32am
zzyzzx
2021 Sep 9, 7:32am
Louis Rossman has been doing videos on how vast part of NYC retail space is unrented, and has been for years.
I really think that Malls would be alive and well if they had Walmart / Target / Costco / Sam's Club / Home Depot / Lowes / Kohls / grocery store as anchor stores.
Seriously what mall would not be booming if it didn't have those anchor stores, and maybe a Dollar Tree, USPS Post office open late, an auto parts store, a Harbor Freight, etc. as tenants in between (I.E- places people actually shop at). The mall format is fine, its the fact that they can't get decent anchor stores (who prefer to own instead of rent) that killed the concept.
I really think that Malls would be alive and well if they had Walmart / Target / Costco / Sam's Club / Home Depot / Lowes / Kohls / grocery store as anchor stores.
Seriously what mall would not be booming if it didn't have those anchor stores, and maybe a Dollar Tree, USPS Post office open late, an auto parts store, a Harbor Freight, etc. as tenants in between (I.E- places people actually shop at). The mall format is fine, its the fact that they can't get decent anchor stores (who prefer to own instead of rent) that killed the concept.
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Automan Empire
2021 Sep 9, 8:06am
Automan Empire
2021 Sep 9, 8:06am
zzyzzx says
I've had his vids come through my recommended for algorithmic reasons I don't understand. Yesterday I watched him walk through a cracker boxy souvenir shop, on a street full of construction and ground floor vacancies. Foot traffic was sparse. Looked like nothing in that store you couldn't pick up online for under $20. All the merchandise crammed together, yet perfectly organized and faced like the clerk has 95% of their shift to have to fill with busywork. The rent was $13,000.00 PER MONTH! Without cash to burn or launder, I don't know how or why that store exists.
Louis Rossman has been doing videos on how vast part of NYC retail space is unrented, and has been for years.
I've had his vids come through my recommended for algorithmic reasons I don't understand. Yesterday I watched him walk through a cracker boxy souvenir shop, on a street full of construction and ground floor vacancies. Foot traffic was sparse. Looked like nothing in that store you couldn't pick up online for under $20. All the merchandise crammed together, yet perfectly organized and faced like the clerk has 95% of their shift to have to fill with busywork. The rent was $13,000.00 PER MONTH! Without cash to burn or launder, I don't know how or why that store exists.
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Robert Sproul
2021 Sep 9, 8:24am
zzyzzx says
This is a *!!BILLION DOLLAR IDEA!!* right here.
I really think that Malls would be alive and well if they had Walmart / Target / Costco / Sam's Club / Home Depot / Lowes / Kohls / grocery store as anchor stores.
Seriously what mall would not be booming if it didn't have those anchor stores, and maybe a Dollar Tree, USPS Post office open late, an auto parts store, a Harbor Freight, etc. as tenants in between (I.E- places people actually shop at).
This is a *!!BILLION DOLLAR IDEA!!* right here.
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NDrLoR
2021 Sep 9, 8:32am
NDrLoR
2021 Sep 9, 8:32am
zzyzzx says
anchor storesThe Richland Mall at intersection of Waco Dr. and Hwy. 6 in Waco opened in 1980 with J. C. Penney and Sears at either ends and Dillards in the middle. Dillards has taken over Sears old space and I'm wondering how much longer Penney's will hang on. In between are countless Indian run kiosks. Both of the two books stores that were there have been gone for decades and of course the Radio Shack. The mall doesn't even have video security for the parking lots, which I guess is a commentary on an earlier, safer time or simply a time of lower technical expertise.
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clambo
2021 Sep 9, 9:25am
The Capitola mall has a Target in it.
The mall mostly attracts Mexicans and their spawn.
Walmart and the rest probably prefer not to squeeze into a mall and pay rent to the mall owner.
The mall mostly attracts Mexicans and their spawn.
Walmart and the rest probably prefer not to squeeze into a mall and pay rent to the mall owner.
"It was a ghost of its former self."
One-half the shops and a major department store (J.C. Penney's) were gone. One of our old hangouts-The Elephant Walk Restaurant was gone. Foot traffic was light. There were murals on many walls bravely depicting new shops coming in the future. I did find a decent sandwich shop Ike's.