I live in a pretty boring upscale suburban area about 30 minutes outside a US top10 metro area.
We have tons of single focus retail and the LEGO store does bonkers business.
In the past 10 years there’s been an explosion in single focus retail as developers have built these sort of outdoor mall/fake main street retail hubs that only have stuff like lulu lemon and lego and Sephora and stuff. I haven’t seen a department store built in years.
These shopping districts are extremely packed all the time with wealthy yuppies and spawn and whatnot.
Of course, the private and city cops would probably execute you (or put you on a bus to somewhere) if you littered, much less did drugs, or pooped, or brandished a weapon. Shoplifting a stick of gum would probably result in swat team activation.
We have tons of single focus retail and the LEGO store does bonkers business.
In the past 10 years there’s been an explosion in single focus retail as developers have built these sort of outdoor mall/fake main street retail hubs that only have stuff like lulu lemon and lego and Sephora and stuff. I haven’t seen a department store built in years.
These shopping districts are extremely packed all the time with wealthy yuppies and spawn and whatnot.
Of course, the private and city cops would probably execute you (or put you on a bus to somewhere) if you littered, much less did drugs, or pooped, or brandished a weapon. Shoplifting a stick of gum would probably result in swat team activation.