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Pdwight · 03-19-2016, 08:32 PM

I think the early 1990's was the pinnacle for malls, online shopping and ever rising rent and other features was like tree trimming and cutting off the limb you are sitting on. The young lady who used to cut my hair and my family's I might add opened a small 6 chair shop in our local mall in the late 90's. She ha been there a year and one day while getting a cut she told me she was going to have to leave the mall as her year lease was up. I asked her why as the place was always busy and you needed to make an appointment ...she proceeded to tell me that the mall got 8% of her bottom line and this was going up to 11.5%. That was not the main reason, the mall wanted her to spend 20 grand remodeling her shop to match the remodel going on in the mall, she said there was no way to do it..so she closed her doors and moved to a standalone building.

03-19-2016, 08:32 PM	#7
Pdwight Registered User Join Date: May 2013 Location: North Alabama Posts: 2,079	Malls I think the early 1990's was the pinnacle for malls, online shopping and ever rising rent and other features was like tree trimming and cutting off the limb you are sitting on. The young lady who used to cut my hair and my family's I might add opened a small 6 chair shop in our local mall in the late 90's. She ha been there a year and one day while getting a cut she told me she was going to have to leave the mall as her year lease was up. I asked her why as the place was always busy and you needed to make an appointment ...she proceeded to tell me that the mall got 8% of her bottom line and this was going up to 11.5%. That was not the main reason, the mall wanted her to spend 20 grand remodeling her shop to match the remodel going on in the mall, she said there was no way to do it..so she closed her doors and moved to a standalone building.