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ohomen171 says

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.

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.

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.

zzyzzx says

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.

Automan Empire says

Without cash to burn or launder

To launder.

zzyzzx says

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.