Everyone loves shopping whether it’s looking for a new dress or a gadget. Shopping can be done in numerous places, but I think the most common place would be the mall, I personally love going to the mall its relaxing to me. The Wolfchase Galleria is one of my favorites, it’s located in Cordova on Germantown Pkwy near Bartlett. This mall is always busy just on a normal day not just on the holidays. Wolfchase has over a hundred stores, food court, and movie theatre, along with a new addition the Cheese Cake Factory restaurant. With so many things going on inside the mall your day will never be boring. The Wolfchase Galleria is a big social site for everyone with many events happing. It was on a Friday when I decide to go to the mall to look around and to observe what’s going on. First, I drove down highway 64 to get to the mall. As I approach the left turning lane, I notice the traffic. I got to the mall lot and the traffic was terrible as usual. I’m sitting at a stop sign for about 8 minutes just trying to …show more content…
One stop was at Macy’s. I went in Macy’s downstairs first where the makeup and purses are. I walked to the Coach purses, it was much traffic right there until I walked to the clearance purses. It looked like it was Black Friday, those women was on a treasure hunt. The women seem excited about the sale the purse. I was getting ready to leave until a perfume sample was handed to me. The lady was very loud and excited about the new fragrance. My last stops where Victoria Secret and Journey’s. Victoria Secret was crowed just like all the other stores. I saw two men waiting outside the store holding shopping bags. The store lines were extremely long, and it was kind of warm inside the store. My last stop of the day was Journey’s the shoe store. It wasn’t so busy, but it was some teenage boys already in the store taking picture of some boots. I looked around for a few minutes and
The Warringah Mall is partially in Beacon Hill on Warringah Road, and where many locals go to shop for clothing, accessories, and more. Some of the shops in this mall include The Body Shop, Swarovski, ANZ, and Strandbags. Free Wi-Fi, valet parking, a kids’ indoor play area, and concierge services are part of the mall
The Uptown Shopping District is a popular location for shopping and dining. Well-equipped with over 60 stores and restaurants, those who are visting are sure to find something that will picque their interest. Additionally, Fort Walton's Downtown is known for its arts and entertainment. The area is also home to a number of unique shops and resturants. The walkable arts district also offers a number of stores that offer antiques and collectable merchandise.
Wolf Lodge Steakhouse is everything the name would indicate - delicious steaks, ski lodge atmosphere and friendly faces. For the perfect date night, try the classic 34-ounce "Sweetheart" steak dinner for two. It is a center cut top sirloin served with fresh bread, soup or salad, fresh seasonal vegetables and choice of potato. Other steak options include filet mignon, New York strip, ribeye and porterhouse. For a unique starter, go for the Rocky Mountain oyster. Hint, these don't come in a shell. Ask the Wolf Lodge Steakhouse server about these delicacies.
The socioeconomic significance of malls is seen through visual culture, where the mall has become a place to meet up with friends and family, on any day of the week – weekends being the busiest. Hence “the mall has become a centre of life, where the most memorable moments, holidays and birthdays are spent, dinners are held all under one roof” (Stokrocki 80). In Toronto the two largest malls I explored were the Toronto Eaton’s Centre and Yorkdale Mall – both of which included over 200 stores, eateries, rainforest cafés, and a movie theatre. However what was evident about these two malls apart from the rest included anti social behaviours despite families being grouped together. Although people were together, the sense of togetherness was plastic just like the manikins of store displays. It appeared as though families were shopping just as an excuse to go out as a “family” even though children, teens and adults would disperse into the stores of their choice and meet up at the end for a takeout meal, contacting each other through their phones. In addition to this observation included the fact that families shopping with other families or family friends were more of an exploitation of social and economic class. People being able to spend at stores like Michael Kors, Coach, Tory Burch, Abercrombie & Fitch, Lululemon, Kate Spade and many more, without worrying about going over budget meant being affluent. What really needs to be questioned is the idea that if these people spend at
Twenty minutes in I decide to change my destination in the mall. I decided to go into stores specifically high end stores without shoes. I went into Armani Exchange. Inside the store, everything was very pricey with high quality. I believed that it would be a perfect place to test out how the employees and customers would react. In Armani Exchange, there were a couple of people that looked like there were in the upper class. One woman looked at me and scoffed whereas her husband was looked at me in curiosity. I felt like they were talking about me. They would casually whisper and look up and down at me while trying to give me direct eye contact. A few minutes later, an employee came up to me asked if I could leave the store. She asked me “Why I wasn’t wearing any shoes?”. But, what surprised me was that she was very kind to me. I assumed that she would be rude and snarky. But, I was wrong. She asked me if “I would like a pair of sandals in the back”. She told me that she had extra shoes. I immediately declined and explained to her that this was an experiment for an assignment. She later on laughed and told me that it was a good one. I proceeded to leave the store. I believe that this folkway worked well because it was something that wasn’t really ordinary in the public eye. I mean that because I went to a mall. Whereas, many people are aware that there are people who do not have shoes most people
A vivid depiction about the mall’s ……………. around it gives the audience the impression of already visiting the mall. The press kit contained a array of details concerning the mall:
During this second observation at Coastal Grand Mall in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, I learned many things. I went to this location on a Saturday night, where it was full of young people. The weather outside was warm, but rainy, so I believe this caused even more people to look for indoor fun, so the mall was packed on this Saturday night.
As we were walking we stopped and waited for the walking signal to mandate us to go. After we crossed we looked around, and could not find our group in the crowd of people walking. We looked across the busy highway and realized that everyone else didn’t cross the road yet. That happened a lot. It took forever to get to the restaurant because everytime we crossed the road we would have to stop and wait for everyone else to catch up. Our group split up at almost every crosswalk.
Hours after driving in the region of the Panama City Beach strip, I decided that we should go back home. Since my friend drove the largest part around the strip, he let all the driving to me. It was around 1:30 am. I was heavy-eyed, but not sleepy enough in order to impair my driving skills. My friend was guiding me the way home since I was not as familiar with it as he was, but some how due to the darkness of the night, I passed the street that I was supposed to turn, and it lead us to about 20 minutes off the schedule we had planned.
It was a hot June day and it has been the hottest I’ve ever felt. At 110 degrees almost everyone looked like zombies withering under the harsh New York sun. The rest of the people were trying their best to wave the heat away with whatever magazine, folding fan, or folder they could find. I was simply chilling inside of an air conditioned city bus. I just got on the bus on Kingsbridge coming from a volunteer service program. However, before I got on the bus I was one of the many people standing at the Kingsbridge stop waiting for the 3 bus. For half an hour, I was trying to hide in the shade from the sun while angrily watching a few ‘NOT IN SERVICE’ buses zoom by. When the bus finally came I practically ran with my metrocard in hand to get
Castleton, Greenwood, Circle Centre, Lafayette, and Washington Square are the many of malls located in Indianapolis who all are found on different sides of town. They are very enormous buildings that have many different stores that everyone in the family will have a place to get things from. The one mall I like the most is Castleton Square because it has a variety of stores and it has majority of the stores that I love shopping at. Castleton is always packed with crowds of people who are noisy and extremely loud with every one holding a conversation with the person on the side of them causes it to be even louder. This mall has a section called The Food Court which consists of millions of food varieties that everyone loved, therefore this part of the mall is almost always packed. The mall was so big that its time consuming to buy outfits especially when you are trying to find a particular item and they do not it in your size or certain color. Like a kid in a candy store, I love going to the mall to shop until I drop not even considering the time at all.
Suburban shopping malls are malls where with a single location shoppers can visit more over hundreds shops all of different kinds, i.e. shoppers can eat, watch movies, dine and walk. Most Americans could hung out here all the entire day and feel much uplifted in spirit by their experience. Suburban regional malls were designed to be a substitute or even a replacement for a city central business district. In 50s such malls were small but today it stands out to be a large malls that can be categorized into eight types, include; Neighborhood centers, community centers, regional centers, superregional centers, fashion/ specialty centers, power centers, theme/
store at the Waterside Shops is designed very well. You enter the mall itself through one of the side walkways from the parking lot or parking garage and you enter all the stores through the inside of the mall. It is set up like a big atrium with water features in the center. You enter the store and they have all the glass counters split up and divided by jewelry item and accessories. The men’s items are all in the same area of the store. In the back corner they have a area where they clean jewelry which customers have brought in to get shined and cleaned up.
Rayzor Ranch Marketplace has a diverse selection of 42 retailers covering an 800,000 square foot lot. The marketplace was established in Fall of 2010. It is located off of Highway 380 and University Dr. in Denton, Texas. Having only been around for 5 years the shopping center appears very contemporary compared to older shopping centers nearby. The parking lots are clean and trash free and the paint stripes are easily visible. The landscape is very well kept and there are potted flowers in the gathering areas. Overall the shopping center provides a refreshing look to the community.
A shopping mall, shopping centre, shopping arcade, shopping precinct or simply mall is one or more buildings forming a complex of shops representing merchandisers, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from unit to unit, along with a parking area — a modern, indoor version of the traditional marketplace.