Your City's Mall Photo Challenge: Who's in?

[AlMutebi]

Upload at least 10 photos of businesses in your favorite city mall.

Many times am in malls and its something i find very interesting. I get to see lots of people, each visiting for something that’d be interesting to know.

I also enjoy checking out cool fashion designs. Yeah… i can afford some and of course the discounts have been very helpful

One of those malls i have spent some time is Burlington Mall, in Burlington Massachusetts and being that Clarks is one of those brand i like, it comes to #1.

2. Banana Republic

3. Disney

4. Chico’s

5. Team Spirit

6. The Cheesecake Factory

7. GameStop

8. Lego

9. Godiva

10. Pottery Barn (Kids)

11. Sur La Table

12. Gap

Not the best camera and angels!

@OSAMA , @KarenVChin you’re in?

[KarenVChin]

@AlMutebi , looks like you are definitely experienced American shopping mall life! What do you think? Is it like what you imagined? Any similarities with what you find in Uganda?

As for me, I do most of my shopping online now. Rarely, do I physically go to a mall. It’s the new American way of shopping - at home, any time of day or night!

So, I don’t have 10 photos to share. I do have recently a new store that I was curious to visit. They opened one in my area - Amazon Books (yes, Amazon is opening retail, brick and mortar stores slowly across America!).

It was crowded. There was a Peet’s Coffee inside.

They had all of Amazon devices - Kindles, Echo, Alexa, Fire, etc. - to play with and ask questions from very helpful Amazon sales staff.

Of course, there were books, including a Children’s Books and Toys area.

@MahabubMunna @ErmesT @OSAMA @FaridTDF @YK1001 @U-royFelixA @SanyaOdare , to help out AlMutebi and make his challenge interesting, what is your favorite city or town’s shopping center (mall) and what foreign country have you visited that impressed you with their shopping centers?

Cheers,

Karen

[deeppancholi]

hey, great idea @AlMutebi all the photos are amazing!

[MahabubMunna]

thanks a lot @KarenVChin for invite me . extremely sorry to say i haven’t any picture in my country mall specific shop . but few pic are in a mall just share 2

[U-RoyEmeka]

@KarenVChin @AlMutebi Nice one guys. The malls in Nigeria are pretty big but nothing to compare with colossal imposing sizes of the malls in the US.

United States is indubitably my favorite country to shop in the world. My favorite bookstore in the States is the Yale Bookstore in New Haven, CT.

I can never get bored in the US cause all I need to do is go to any of the shopping malls. Some of these shopping malls will take you the whole day to go visit all the outlets in it.

[AlMutebi]

Hi @KarenVChin , thanks for inviting more guys! It’s really becoming more interesting and i believe i’ll learn a lot from it.

Ahh, for the malls, there’s not much difference from Ugandan Malls apart from the huge discounts i usually see and take advantage of.

I’ve never seen 50-60% discounts in Ugandan malls. It’s only like 10-25% that I’ve seen.

About shopping online, #### i messed up one time and my nikes went to another address. Good they were returned and i was refunded.
For the Amazon store, i think it’s a clever idea. People like me who like to see and meet new people would find it very interesting
going to a physical store.

[AlMutebi]

Thanks @iDepp and i can’t wait to see your photos

[KarenVChin]

You’re welcome @AlMutebi . From my understanding, I hear many foreign tourists love to shop in America - for the big sales, huge variety like what @U-royFelixA stated, and great return policies.

From my experience shopping overseas vs what I can get here in the States, we definitely have more sales - things usually go Half Off in a couple weeks if you can wait - and more items to purchase, lots of inventory!

For Amazon to start opening retail, brick and mortar stores, is going against trend. The funny thing is where this new Amazon Books store is located the old Barnes & Noble store closed up two blocks away two years ago because people were buying books online a la Amazon or going to the e-reader route (Kindle). While I was in Amazon, I could overhear shoppers around me talk about this fact!

Cheers,

Karen

[OSAMA]

I like this topic @AlMutebi actually am thinking to make WW Mall Meetup :-))))

I will share mine sooooon :-)))))

[OSAMA]

Very nice POV bro @AlMutebi I think in malls this is what we want to see :-)))

A photo from best walking POV

[Jomo]

Recently moved back to the UK after 25 years in the US so I haven’t had to chance to really explore the local shopping scene but I have had fun exploring the seaside town of Southport. Here are the local amusement arcades near to the Promenade. Love all the bright lights, bright colors and loud sounds coming out of the doors to attract visitors to inject their money into the local economy. No discounts here.

[AlMutebi]

Hi @Jomo ! Those are some very colorful and interesting places. They remind me of some streets in San Francisco and thanks very much for sharing. Waiting on your exploration…

[NareshDarji]

Nice pictures and great idea bro @AlMutebi

Great thinking @OSAMA

WW Mall meetups!!! Awesome.

[ShafiulB]

@AlMutebi Nice topic…

I would like to participate here tomorrow…

Happy Guiding!!!

[NarenChandra]

Here are my mall collection , There was a Rolls Royce exhibit happening in Forum Mall Hyderabad and i managed to click few snaps .

@iDepp @AlMutebi @ShafiulB @NareshDarji @Jomo

[FaridTDF]

Es interesante el hilo que plantea @AlMutebi , pero me gusta mucho el análisis que realizas @KarenVChin , mi escasa experiencia en Shopping por el mundo está enmarcada por supuesto en los de Argentina, particularmente los de Buenos Aires, que son los más grande del país, pero en la mayoría de las provincias (estados en los que se divide el pais) tienen un Shopping o paseo de compras . Para comenzar podría decir que, comprar todo por internet o el llamado e-Commerce, es verdad es próximo paso en el mundo pero en particular en Argentina está medianamente desarrollado, tenemos dos grandes que dominan todo que es Mercado Libre y Deremate.com pero por más que esos sitios se mueven muy bien, en Argentina ir al Shopping es ir a pasear y mostrarse o ir al cine y comer, en todo momento del año están llenos y con muchas personas en sus pasillos, yo creo que eso no cambiará mucho, por más que se desarrolle el e-commerce, es un tema social y a menos que la gente no desee verse más eso no ocurrirá jajajaja. .

Por otro lado esta la estética, la manera de hacerlos y la manera de decorar las vidrieras, en Argentina tiene una forma Argentina de hacerlo, diferente a otros lugares, es complicado decirlo, el sentimiento que tengo al recorrer las tiendas es muy particular, me gusta verlos, admirar cómo dispusieron las ropas o los productos que venden, en el único lugar que tuve el mismo sentimiento es un Shopping de Roma en Italia , Estababa de paseo por allí y deseaba pasar por un Apple Store jejejeje

Los De Santiago de Chile en Chile , son diferentes, son lindos pero les falta algo para que me sienta conmovido, por lo menos es el sentimiento en el Sky Center a diferencia del Parque Arauco. Como sea, son estilos diferentes, creo que en realidad lo que no me sienta bien son las grandes tiendas con muchos productos uno alado del otro (amontonados…) sin separación de ninguna clase y nadie que te atienda para preguntarte qué deseas, son estilos por eso supongo que me gusta más el estilo Argentino.

Otro estilo es el de Panamá , un poco más simple por lo menos para mi gusto, las estéticas son simples, un detalle los pisos no combinan con las paredes jejejeje…es bueno destacar las ganas que le ponen a la navidad, muy decorados y formas muy vistosas. Lo bueno de los Shopping de Panama son los buenos precios que tienen.

Y el ultimo lugar que conozco es en Colombia , grandes amplios sin gente y con un bombardeó de las entidades bancarias que me llego a sorprender, lindo pero sin atractivos que me conquistase

En algún momento quiero conocer los de EEUU, Londres, Alemania, Japón y Hong Kong para tener una visión más completa de todos los lugares del mundo.

Álbum de Shopping en el mundo

Saludos Farid.

[KarenVChin]

@FaridTDF , thanks.

What I find interesting when I shop overseas - Europe, Asia (China, SE Asia, Japan, Hong Kong) - compared to America is that in America we have incredible return policies. If you buy something here, you can return it with a receipt up to 6 months with no questions asked. Some nationwide stores, like Nordstrom or Home Depot, it can be a year or forever as long as the merchandise shows up in their system. And if you don’t have the receipt, you will either get store credit /gift card at the current price.

Costco, which is warehouse shopping, you don’t even have to have a receipt. As long as you have the credit card you charged the merchandise on, you can return it at the price you paid.

Electronics (computers, phones, TVs, video games, etc.) are a little more difficult, but in most cases, you can return as long as you don’t open the box without any penalties.

In Argentina, do you have return policies?

Cheers,

Karen

[FaridTDF]

Buen punto @KarenVChin , lamento decirte que de lo bueno que es la estética y las vidrieras en Argentina, los sistemas de canjes y reemplazos no son tan buenos como los que tú comentas, creo que eso es un punto débil tanto en el comercio electrónico, e-commerce como en las tiendas reales. Supongo que con el tiempo eso cambiara y mejorará, de todas maneras tiendas electrónicas como AliExpress (China), está creciendo y ofrece mejores cosas que Amazon que no comercia muy bien todavía en Argentina.

Saludos Farid

[KarenVChin]

For online shopping here, free shipping and free returns are two must-haves for any e-commerce site needs to have in order to succeed. We, Americans, are too spoiled with how Amazon and other online retailers have trained us.

Unfortunately, it is killing brick and mortar stores, especially local “mom & pop” stores and our shopping centers (aka malls). We are becoming a society of online shoppers, instead of visiting and hanging out at stores and malls. Many major retailers have gone bankrupt because of this.

Cheers,

Karen

[FaridTDF]

Es una pena leer eso @KarenVChin , me refiero al segundo punto de tu diálogo, yo personalmente creo que eso con el tiempo se revertirá, el hombre es un animal gregario y social, regresará de una u otra manera a la tienda del barrio a otro tipo de lugar para reunirse y mirar solo mirar a otras personas que es lo que hacemos desde hace más de 4000 años en las plazas de cualquier ciudad del mundo antiguo al actual. Jajaja esto es pensar en voz alta jajaja.

saludos Farid.