re: Macy's to close Esplanade Mall location by year's end

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Man, as a kid, I remembered their being 6 malls in Nola

Esplanade
Lakeside
The New Orleans Centre
Oak wood Mall

And I know there were two others, just can my out my finger on them

Eta:
Jax
Canal Place
River walk

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Do you even Lake Forest Plaza, bro?

I'm surprised it took this long. As others have stated the Esplanade was the shite back in the day. But demographics shifted in that area and it's been on a steady decline even before Katrina.

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Also, Target would do well to admit their sales are down because of their social engineering finally and beg the public for forgiveness. They sell the same shite as Walmart with a smug attitude at a higher price. My wife asked me to get something from the clearview Target and I walked out quickly because they don't/can't afford to staff more than 3 cashiers during Christmas and the line is 20 deep.

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Target has self-checkouts now, and for some reason nobody uses them. It is awesome to self-checkout while the suckers are waiting in line at a staffed checkout.

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hat's going to happen to all of the millions of square feet of retail space in this country that are going to be vacant in the next decade because of the internet? What a world.

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they become churches

Belle Promenade
Galleria (always sucked as a mall though)
Clearview mall.

(+ those you mentioned) I think the East had a mall too.

I remember I once one a year's supply of chicken from Chick fil a for getting 1st place in a 4H competition, but only redeemable at the Belle Promenade. (1991, I was ten, I raised chickens in my garage and won Jefferson parish and got 12th in state in BR)


I never went there one time.

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The Walmart self-checkouts suck. My complaint is that when I go thru the normal checkout it seems a 50/50 proposition that there will be a problem where the person has to turn on the light and call for help. If thats the way it is then I NEED THE REAL PERSON.

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SAMs self check-outs are the GOAT. I wish everyone had their system. A hand held scanner and easy to use interface.
It's the only thing Sams has over Costco.

Clearview has a terrible design (most stores face mall's interior) and it's location restricts access from most cars. Target is struggling, Sears is selling itself piecemeal and movie theaters are another dying business. The only stores with any activity are the external facing stores (Zea's, BBB) and they don't funnel you into the interior mall.

I understand the 18 and under rule now, keeping out trouble makers at movies is a big focus now, especially in Jefferson Parish. I was attending a movie after Christmas at the Elmwood palace recently and JPSO cleared out the entire movie theater during the show. When multiple police entered the exit doors and the main entrance at the same time, I thought we were all going to die until they hit the lights. They and the manager said they were shutting it down due to "security (gang?) concerns" and gave everyone vouchers for another movie. As it's a gun free zone, I'm never going back.

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Neighborhood Walmart is even worse

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really? a few months back i was contemplating transferring to one of these, the new one they just built in Prairieville, but after thinking about it i decided against it... both Sam's in BR had spots open up, and i got one of those....

the biggest thing was going back to a place with a drive thru... frick that shite... those things ruin pharmacist's lives... i swear to god...