Several Shopping Centers In The US Suburbs Have Become Ghost Towns.

< p > 1977, the famous American horror film director George Romero A. specially created a shopping mall to be a creepy ghost town in order to make films. The shopping mall was full of empty shops.

But over the past 30 years, all of this has become a real reality in some shopping centers in the suburbs of the United States.

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< p > recently, American artist Cerf Lawless launched a photo album entitled "black Friday: the collapse of the American shopping center", showing the appearance of the American shopping centers which are now on the brink of desolation, just like a ghost town.

Since the last century, the prosperity of shopping centers has made "Shopping Mall" a part of American classical culture.

But according to a recent survey report by CoStar Group, an American real estate analyst, 15% of the shopping centers in the United States will be closed down in the next 5 years. "The rule of shopping centres for people's consumption will end in 50 years".

The analysis shows that the causes of this phenomenon include economic depression, < a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp" > online shopping < /a > rise, environmental changes in shopping centers, and the emergence of new urban shopping malls.

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< p > > black Friday: the collapse of the American shopping center shows the appearance of the American desolated shopping centers, now isolated in a deserted suburb, surrounded by weeds and patches in the empty hall. The elevator has long been closed, and the windows are broken, and the collapsing ceiling seems to collapse at any moment.

The most interesting thing is the Randall Parke shopping center in Ohio, because it used to be the largest and most luxurious shopping mall in the country. It is the place for countless American families to meet on weekends, and its prosperity even represents a shopping culture.

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< p > "we all remember the good time spent in these shopping centres."

Lawless said, "remember when I was a kid, I used to go to those huge shopping centers.

I remember eating cotton candy under the escalator. I remember the sound of laughter in the shopping mall, everyone laughing and running, and the sound of fountains coming from everywhere.

When I meet Christmas, I go there to take pictures with Santa Claus.

Later, I found my first job there, and I think the building of Lee Randall Parker mall is beautiful.

It used to represent the United States at that time.

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In addition to the destruction of shopping centres, these photos of < p > Lawler have a deeper implication: "they are symbols of the decline of the US economy."

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During the 50 years from 1956 to 2005, P was the golden period for the development of shopping centers in the United States. During this period, over 1500 large shopping malls sprang up across the country. Since 2006, there were no new shopping centers in the United States. Up to now, there are still over 1200 shopping centers in the United States, but a large part of them are being abandoned in the suburbs.

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< p > people even built a website called Deadmalls.com to record the current situation of a large shopping mall in the United States, which is now deserted.

A picture shows that once the shopping paradise is now depressed as if it were a classic scene in a zombie movie.

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< p > in some other shopping centers, the space that shops closed will be utilized by educational, medical and religious facilities.

Economist Ryan Mccullou said that it is at least positive and innovative to reutilize these businesses.

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< p > analysts say that the exit of the core shops of < a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp" > shopping center < /a > often has a great impact on the whole shopping malls.

In 2010, Sears, a retail giant, shut down a total of 305 stores because of the financial crisis. Penney Company also said it would close 33 stores nationwide. These core stores used to undertake the task of Attracting key customers in shopping centers.

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< p > and according to The International website, the decline of American shopping center entity space is closely related to the rise of cyberspace in twenty-first Century.

Figures from the National Retail Association show that the number of online shopping in the United States increased by 14% in 2013, while the total retail sales in the whole country increased by only 3%.

Last September, a total of over 120 million shoppers flocked to the online shopping mall, setting a record of $1 billion 460 million.

"As more and more businesses move to the Internet, the physical retail space we need is getting smaller and smaller."

Tim Vosto, a researcher at the Adam Smith Institute in London, asserts that online shopping indicates the demise of physical shopping centres.

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The change of < p > a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp" > shopping environment < /a > is also a factor.

In 2007, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, has a 35 year old clover shopping center closed.

This shopping center flourished in the 70s and 80s of last century and was the main place for family and friends to get together.

"But in 90s, everything changed. Most of the main customers of the four leaf clover were women. These women began to stay away from shopping malls because of changes in the environment, because a lot of idle young people began to gather here."

The former management of the four leaf Shopping Center said that from then on, teenagers often saw baggy trousers, girdle with decorative chains and wandering in shopping malls. "People are afraid. They will say that teenagers are gangsters."

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< p > at the same time, with the decline of traditional shopping centers, the boutique shops rising in the city center are rising.

These businesses, which are the same as the physical stores, continue to thrive.

Mike Kuhlau said that from 2009 to 2013, the number of luxury stores increased by 14.6%.

Outlets is also expanding. In the current economic situation, in 2013 alone, the United States still opened 11 outlets outlets.

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The P high-end food supermarket has exquisite interior decoration and even entertainment facilities. This unique novelty attracts consumers again from the online shopping to these new shopping malls.

"They can provide people with goods that they can't get on the Internet."

Michael Dutt wrote in the book "new guidelines for retail industry", "consumers are tired of the same commodity, so" experimental "is very important now.

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Howard Davidoviz, P, a national retail consultancy, predicts that within the next 10 years, shopping centers in the United States will disappear by half.

"The whole world is still in the consumption boom."

BBC reporter Jonathan Granci said, "it's just the tide coming and going. Maybe after a while, it's just like we can't understand what the ancient Egyptian temple is for, and all these shopping centers are only of archaeological value."

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