AverageAmericanGuy: Was the STUPID tag unavailable?

Because Apple stores failed miserably.

Actually, you won't find the store at the mall this year, and probably not next year, either,

They almost had me at Free Sushi, but I stopped reading at the line I just quoted.

The only reason I go to a mall anymore is because there is a gyro place and the owner told me he is closing as soon as his lease is over.

I don't even know what a google would cost or what I would do with it if I bought one.

Happy Hours: I don't even know what a google would cost or what I would do with it if I bought one.

A google of what? Marbles? Cheapish. Cars? Expensive-ish.

I guess they're feeling lucky.

poot_rootbeer: steamingpile: apple has done very well creating false hype for their products.

What's the difference between false hype and hype?

The second one doesn't require a permit from the Department of Redundancy Department.

Yeah be careful what you ask for at the Google store.

Customer: Yes, I would like to buy a glass table.
Google: Do you mean like this one?
Customer: Oh, god, no! ::Barf::

The Information Bar could be staffed by young Library Science students who can't find jobs because Google and stupid Fahrenheit 451ish politicians have put librarians out of work. They could do the job they've been doing all along--teach and help people to find quality information in the massive stacks of unreliable information which are constantly produced.

Of course, this might lead to war with the conspiracy theorists, the bananas in pajamas (who already hate Google because they think that it, like reality, is biased against loonies and reactionaries, and so forth, but it would certainly liven up the Mall. Librarians versus misinformation mongers and propagandists of all kinds, including all the other stores. Pitched battles between them--except in the Food Court and washrooms, which would remain neutral territory. Cartoonists and graphic artists filming the action on their cellphones so they can put it on the screen (and even paper) as dystopian comics and comic horror, SF and gag comics.

Benni K Rok: What's a mall?

It's a thing that has been dying since the mid '80s. I remember witnessing one die off back then. It was a virtual ghost town most of the time. There were a few "anchor stores" and a bunch of other shiat in between them. One of them I knew was simply a tax write-off for the owner. They sold candles - or they pretended to anyway. There was this one really cool candle they had shaped like a parrot only about 5 times larger than an actual parrot.

I just looked it up on the internet - it died a very slow death, finally closing for good in 2005, but it was obvious it was doomed less than 10 years after it opened. There's really no good explanation for it. Most blame the lack of freeway access even though it was at the juncture of 2 major freeways. There just wasn't a very convenient exit I guess and there was another mall a few miles down the road.

One by one, the "anchor stores" closed and more and more smaller stores inside closed as well. The movie theater was built before the newer "mega-plexes" and so they never got a lot of business while the other mall rebuilt their 2 screen thingie and took away much of their business as well. I saw Stop Making Sense there as well as a couple of other movies from that era.

The music store sucked and they didn't have a Spencer's Gifts either so it just wasn't a cool place to hang out for the kids. They had a McDonald's, but there's one of those on every block so that didn't really factor into it. For the most part people who did shop there made hit and run visits to specific stores and didn't really get into the whole atmosphere of a bunch of shops all massed in one gigantic building.

Wikipedia says they demolished the whole thing and rebuilt a new shopping center last year - in the same farking spot. Good luck with that. It's called an "outdoor shopping center" now whatever the hell that is - my guess is it's a bunch of strip malls. huddled close together.