Even the lower level of the Macy's wing, home to the highest concentration of closed storefronts, seemed decently busy on this visit. It's interesting to see that there was a Go Calendars open here on my March visit -- I thought their stores were typically pop-up/seasonal operations. Even this permanent store looks like a rather low-budget setup!
I remember when a calendar store opened up in a lesser-traveled corridor at my local mall in around the mid 1990s. It was such an oddity that we had to stop in it just to see if the store was for real, lol. It was around that time that I started to notice that while the mall was still doing really well at the time, and still does, there were parts of the mall that had gotten to a point that they were pretty much not capable of being leased to any sort of national retailer.
ReplyDeleteIt appears this calendar store is not just a calendar store so maybe they do enough business throughout the year, but I suspect the mall didn't want an empty space in such a prominent spot and so they allowed a 'hidden corridor' type store to take that prime spot until that spot can be leased. If that happens, the calendar store will go away or will go to some undesirable spot at the mall.
Interesting! This mall's layout is simple enough that there aren't any "hidden" spaces, but for whatever reason (I really have no clue why), this area does seem to be the mall's dead spot.
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