Negative Effects Of Online Shopping

Throughout the years we have created so many shopping malls around the country to compete with others and invest more in the business industry. Too many shopping centers will create a problem with the amount of sales a mall is able to receive. These sale numbers affect the mall with continuing business when they begin to decrease and start to affect negatively causing stores to close. Store closures lead shopping malls out of business and eventually lead them to closure. Fox Business Network, a well-known television channel and news website, informed their audience on the most recent “retail apocalypse.” About twenty-two anchor stores around the U.S. filed for bankruptcy and many of these are well-known to the public like JCPenney’s, Macy’s,
Many used to be afraid of entering any personal information into the web. After individuals became more comfortable, online shopping was the next trend that everybody wanted to try. Consumes began to change their habits of visiting the mall more than twice a month to grab necessities or even to look around stores and the products; to sitting at home staring at a computer screen shopping in all the online businesses that exists. Like traditional shopping, online shopping has its benefits including: better prices, a variety of choices, saving time and money, no crowds and its convenient. But to every advantage there are disadvantages including: privacy and security, trying clothing items on, and questions that can’t always be answered right then. Now that online shopping exists and becoming more popular, malls need to start reinventing
Many articles and journals have shared stories about different mall owners that have tried different ways to help keep their malls from falling apart. In the article, “Reinvention: A Key to Survival of Malls,” author Matt Sanctis explains the story about the Upper Valley Mall in Springfield, OH. They learned different ways to keep their shopping mall from failing, making small improvements would prevent them from bankruptcy. Ways like having a specialty leasing department that finds temporary stores and local tenants to fill in the spots of those who’ve left. This helps the shopping flow, allowing tenants to do renovations if they are to use their own money, and even inputting restaurants and other attractions that consumers can come in and enjoy. All these ways will prevent consumers habits to change and prevent online businesses to grow like Amazon. Reinvention is spoken in many articles including the article, “Time for Reinvention,” Jill Burcum explains how the country is “overstored” with malls but not all malls are going to close and will eventually reinvent. Reinvention of shopping malls include making it a place that consumers will have a reason to go to other than shopping. A place to bring the family, a place to meet and even a place to eat. Making a shopping mall a place of interest for both the public and private will help malls stay