Why you almost never see a clock at the mall
Why you almost never see a clock at the mall
Retailers, casinos, and grocery stores use a trick called temporal distortion to make you forget about the real world.
I always kind of assumed that was why big stores like Walmart never have any windows except at the entrance lol
46That's as much about security and energy costs as it is about anything else
23The casino school of architecture or leisure design style. That's why being at one hotel/casino/cruise/mall feels like being at any other. And it's so hard for those places to actually differentiate or posses an unique brand.
8Windows cost money and take up valuable display shelf space.
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because i almost never go to the mall?
29Because it’s hard to have a clock in something that that doesn’t exist anymore?
20Meh. Malls seem to be trying to come back. Apparently some magical population has not only disposable income, but also enough to waste on but just overpriced, subpar things, but enough to waste on way overpriced things to pay mall rent prices
8Is this an American thing? Malls have never gone away and have always been full all my life.
4They exist in the US but a lot of them are dead or dying. Among other things they have failed to innovate in the face of e-commerce so people can buy the same things without leaving home barring any other draw
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Outside of the US where it's pretty common with large clocks in malls. Every mall I've been in in several European countries has had one or several large clocks, often being a central point of the mall.
14But if you look at it the mall's manager will come and look at you angrily.
2Aren't many malls in the EU actually train stations tho?
-4what? no.
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The longer you stay, the more you spend
I feel like this works the other way around for me. If I am there for longer, I start doubting the stuff I put in my cart. If I am there for even longer, I start checking online only to find that I could even get it considerably cheaper elsewhere, so I put it back... and never end up buying it from elsewhere anyway, because I had all the time to decide.
13That's because people like us are on budgets, formal or not.
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It's basically The Backrooms but you can buy things.
9Also the same for casinos and bars. Didn’t consider it for the mall though!
7Fucking VR casinos are going to make so much money if/when they are implemented
5Home casinos already exist. They're called mobile games.
8Yea, that's as well as browser slot machines. So predatory, it's really disgusting. But what they were talking about at the end of the article goes way past any of that.
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Same thing with pubs/bars.
4At the mall, you have the option of a watch and/or phone.
But yeah, remove that and it can be maddening ~ particularly if you have no real distractions
3They don't have clocks in casinos either so you don't notice the time.
As if shopping with your wife wasn't fun enough. "Yes dear, you look fantastic in that. No, we don't need to go to try the first one on again."
Besides teens can't tell the time on a clock with hands.
-1Spoken like someone who has never talked to someone under the age of 25 since he was one himself
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