Analysis Of The Grand Mall Phenomenon

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According to “The Mall Phenomenon” the average person spends $330.82 in a mall that is an increase from past years where the average was $316.80. Also, according to “The Mall Phenomenon” people will on average visit the mall 3.4 times per month and stay 1 hour and 24 minutes in the mall. People tend to go to stores and spend time and money as a stress reliever which can help and also hurt you. In this essay, I will be telling you about the “Grand Mall Seizure” also I will be telling you about the “Champagne Taste, Beer Budget.” The other thing I will be talking about in this essay is what mall/stores I spend most of my time and money in. In the first essay, was “Grand Mall Seizure” by Daniel Alarcon. In this essay Alarcon was describing …show more content…

The design of the Mall of America is genius because it is four floors with more than 500 stores also the designers where smart by having natural light enter the Mall this to me makes it feel more homie. The mall was also smart on the how people can park they have four ramps which has five floors which means that it will be easier for the customers to access their building. The Mall of America was also smart on putting an amusement park in their sate of the art mall, this is a big because kid will want to go ride on the roller costars and when the kids see Lego City they will beg their portents to buy them some Legos. The Mall was also smart by putting an aquarium in the Mall which was another attraction that gets peoples attraction to come and visit the mall, another way the mall gets people to come to the Mall is the Movie Theater that is on the top floor of the Mall. Another reason why I think that people keep coming back to the Mall of America is because you can get everything you want in one shot without leaving to go to multiply stores, people could really spend a whole day at the Mall of America because they have a food court and they also have a nice sit-down dinning which is nice. The Mall of America also is more than just a shopping mall, this mall offers work out session because the mall is 1.15 miles so people will just walk around the mall for their daily workout. The Mall of America also has church serves …show more content…

In the “Champagne Taste, Beer Budget” the character Dee was a fashion addict and would empty her wallet and max out her credit card during a single trip to the mall. “At first I just took pride in being the best-dressed female at my high school” [279] Dee was soon to find out that she was running out of money so fast that she would have to start bowing money from her mom. Then Dee’s mom was one day snooping around Dee’s room and was seeing where Dee’s paychecks were going too to find out that they were going careless shopping. Then Dee’s mother transferred her to another school to see if that helped with her addiction with labels, this worked Dee had “less emphasis on clothes, and more emphasis on work.” In this essay, we saw that Dee “wore a designer emblem on her chest like a badge of honor and respect” she was only in tenth grade when this was happing. Future generations are going to struggle with this because everyone wants the best label like Nike, Under Armor and North Face but there are way more than just those three labels you also have other things like technology that everyone wants, like the latest and greatest

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