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A dead mall, [1] also known as a ghost mall or zombie mall, is a shopping mall that has low consumer traffic or is deteriorating in some manner. [2] Many malls in North America are considered "dead" when they have no surviving anchor store or successor that could attract people to the mall. Without the pedestrian traffic that department stores ...
Another reason for malls shunning windows did have something to do with the merchandising, Burt Flickinger, retail expert and managing director of retail consultancy Strategic Resource Group told CNN.
GNC closed over 900 stores in 2019, including between 300 and 400 of the chain's 800 shopping mall locations, which have been particularly hard-hit by declining foot traffic at malls overall. [146] Godiva Chocolatier closed all of its North American retail locations in 2021 after the chocolate company faced a decrease in sales and foot traffic ...
Research published by global retail analyst IHL Group in 2019 suggests that the so-called retail apocalypse narrative was an exaggeration, with "more chains that are expanding their number of stores than closing stores.” [7] That year, retailers in the United States announced 9,302 store closings, a 59% jump from 2018, and the highest number ...
Amazon, which has done as much as any company to bring about the demise of shopping malls in the United States, has now come full circle by buying up struggling malls and turning them into...
We’re talking about the shopping mall, the after-school hangout of tweens and teens everywhere, which has not-so-quietly dwindled from 2,500 sprawling clusters of stores nationw.
What happens to "zombie" commercial spaces and, in particular, those dead shopping malls? Is your local "zombie mall" the masked, serial slasher in your hometown's struggle for economic recovery?
Deadmalls.com is an independent non-profit website featuring shopping malls in the United States that have failed or are in the process of failing. The site features nearly 450 listings of dead or dying shopping malls, many with pictures and historical narratives. [1]