We have our fast food joints and discount mall stores like Costco.
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So how will steampunk show up in mall stores this year?
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Mall stores likely will find increased pressure to draw customers.
Consider the fates of the more middle-market mall stores.
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The dolls have been around for over 25 years (originally sold by mail order) but now, as a subsidiary of Mattel, you can have the whole American Girl experience by walking into any number of mall stores in the country.
It also says it is working on a universal log-in system for its mall of stores.
If you don't have time or the stomach to brave the mall, stores themselves will pick out what you should buy.
Meanwhile, the nation's retailers had a strong start to the holiday shopping season, according to results announced Saturday by a national research group that tracks sales at mall-based stores.
It also is facing the ongoing closure of hundreds of stores by mall stalwarts such as Sears Holdings Corp.
On Friday, the private-equity giant on Friday acquired Colonie Center, an Albany shopping mall with about 113 stores and 1.3 million square feet of space.
Some people pick up part-time jobs around this time of year: plenty of places need seasonal workers, from stores at the mall to apple orchards.
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The comparison pales, when one thinks that specialty stores in a mall carry a much broader or deeper assortment than a small boutique-like shop in a J.
In Milton Keynes, on the edge of the enormous modernist mall full of bright chain stores, there is a flea market with stalls selling Afro-Caribbean and Asian foods.
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He redefined the creation of a specialty department store and compared it again to a 1.2 million square foot mall that would have 100 stores plus anchor department stores.
Millions of people are milling about in shopping mall parking lots waiting for the stores to open.
Mall owners predict that it wouldn't be difficult to replace Penney stores in the best U.S. malls, such as Aventura Mall in Aventura, Fla.
The mall had been abandoned by several department stores long before Hurricane Katrina.
JCPenney treated analysts to a tour of a remodeled store last week, showing how the chain means to reinvent its stores into a mini-mall of boutique shops with specialty and exclusive merchandise.
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Second, our exact location is shown on the map, which means that Google can find out which stores we have visited in a mall, or which areas of a museum have drawn our interest.
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And at Illinois' Park Forest Mall, near Chicago, Sears and other big stores were razed about 10 years ago to make way for a Main Street thoroughfare that includes a town green, residential units and a series of smaller stores.
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In other cases, mall owners could restructure the space to house several smaller stores.
Many of us know The Sharper Image best as a purveyor of massaging lounge chairs (which makes their stores a must-stop location in the mall), a chronic pusher of ozone generators, and as a perennial favorite in SkyMall catalogs as we bide our time on the redeye.
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Often, when a mall starts to lose shoppers, major tenants such as department stores leave.
Sciscione said he will return to the mall soon to check in with the managers at the clothing stores and turn in his applications.
The greater challenge, many mall owners and analysts say, would be to replace Penney stores in average and subpar malls, where Penney, like Sears, has hundreds of stores.
For a more proletarian shopping experience, try Aventura Mall (19501 Biscayne Boulevard), which has more than 250 stores, including Bloomingdale's and Macy's.
My holiday mall walks showed strong traffic and shopping bag conversion at a number of stores and I was not alone in observing that.
Possibilities include Penney selling some of its stores and leasing them back, or Penney selling some to mall owners who intend to raze them and rebuild them for other tenants.
The latest to open: The Dubai Mall in the United Arab Emirates, a mini metropolis featuring 1, 200 stores, a 22-screen movie theater and a five star hotel.
And, instead of being linked to a single online store, like Amazon, it uses a "mall" concept, designed to allow users to choose from many different online stores, though only two are available now.
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