It’s been years since I’ve been in a proper mall. I was in an open-air shopping center this summer. It has a Macy’s and a couple of other shops. Does that count as a mall? If not, I really cannot remember the last time.
About two weeks, if you define “the ever-expanding maze of enclosed retail-lined pedestrian tunnels, bridges, and spaces linking and underlying many of the major residential, commercial, and institutional buildings in the central business district of Toronto” as “a mall”.
Most malls seem to have evolved from enclosed shopping centers to just groups of stores in the same parking lot around here. I haven’t been in an enclosed mall in 20 years or so, I think. However, I do go down to the shopping center that’s a couple of blocks away from me, though I tend to just park at the store I want to shop at, go in, get my stuff, and then go to another shopping center, rather than go to another store in the same shopping center.
I’d argue that Target and WalMart have become minimalls in their own right. You can get a wide variety of merchandise, and the Target, at least, generally has a fastfood restaurant, an optical center, a beauty salon, and other specialty stores inside the Target building.
Yesterday I was in the mall. The mall has it all! 
About two weeks. Once I get back home (Wednesday), my wife and I will go to the mall every morning and walk for an hour in a climate controlled environment. The mall is about a mile away. I am funny this way. I hate shopping but I like being around people, so I enjoy malls, especially when the stores are still closed (but the food court is mostly open).
When I go downtown (Montreal), I mostly stick to the underground city (basically wall to wall malls) and there is a path through that gets me nearly to my office at McGill. With the snow and cold, this is the only way to go.
Eh. The closest one is 100 miles away. And I don’t go. When visiting folks back east my wife and I will kill time in a mall when waiting for movie or something, but I sure don’t ever go to one to go ‘shopping’. I abhor ‘shopping’ and get most of what I need online.
We drove through an open-air mall last Wednesday to get to a JC Penney store. Before that, probably about 2 years. I just don’t like to shop. If I have to go to a store, it’s in and out as fast as I can.
My Lenscrafters is in a mall too. That’s the only reason I ever go to that mall anymore.
It’s been about six years since I’ve been to a real, indoor mall to eat & shop. I loved going to Lubys and then stroll the mall. Lubys closed in 2005 and there’s really no need to go to that mall anymore.
I remember when malls were fun. They had places cooking fudge and the smell was so fantastic. You could grab ice cream. Lots of things. Now there’s nothing but clothing stores in the malls.
Three, maybe four days. Love shopping. I would go more frequently if I had a better mall to go to because the one in my small town is lousy.
Most sizable Malls have food courts, presumably with ice cream.
But I do kinda remember them having more ‘fun’ stores when I was a kid and less clothing. I guess part of it is the types of stores that I like are becoming obsolete. Arcades have largely died out. With Waldenbooks and then Borders going under, mall bookstores seem a lot less common. Radioshack has basically devolved into a cellphone store. I don’t think Gamestop and the like sell PC games anymore, and even if they did I’d still buy from Steam anyways.
Now its all Hot Topics and Baby Gaps as far as the eye can see.
I buy damn-near everything from Amazon. What I don’t buy there I buy from Walmart.
It has been a while, but no more than a few years.
Over a year ago…went with someone I was dating…we walked through the mall…usually hit the small Hallmark store for my Jingle Pal for my mother…do most of my shopping at Walgreens since it is right next to my work and I don’t drive…
I work in a mall. Granted, not a big, huge, successful, busy mall, but a mall nonetheless. So…it’s been 24 hours.
So the “other things” you do just never involve shopping, or you frequent only stand alone concerns for whatever that means?
And what about strip malls? You don’t even go to strip malls?
“I don’t go to the mall” is the new “I don’t watch tv.”
I was in a mall yesterday.
I guess I’m in a mall once every few months. I don’t love shopping, but I don’t hate it either. Sometimes you just gotta buy stuff, and sometimes that stuff is at a mall. There are several malls that are convenient to where I live, so it’s not like I have to go out of my way to get to one.
Really? Does that mean I can go back to watching TV now?
I don’t go to malls because I don’t have any use for things that are likely to be sold in malls. The malls only coincidentally give me the creeps.
Two hours. I may go again tomorrow.