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Plastic wastelands; the mall the merrier

16 Sep 05:50am

Filed under: Culture, London, Shopping, Society, Stratford, Westfield

They’re calling it the “mother of all mega malls”. Frank Lowy’s Stratford Westfield; home to seven miles of shop windows, 300 outlets, 70 restaurants, 5,000 car spaces and 50, 000 lights.

Stratford:Where all your shopping dreams come true

Sounds like hell. But you’d check it out, you know you would. People love to shop.

Fast, convenient and completely mind-numbing. Shopping has become the ultimate lifestyle activity; shopping malls the modern equivalent of the town square.

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stephen says:

10:06pm | 18/09/11

Cinemas belong in the in the city, if anything. They were included in a multiplex to give credibility to shoppers as not only buyers, but incisive purveyors of the moving image, e.g. those who were undecided as to powders, but can get hitchcocked. Nice touch, but the sellers are still… Read more »
Utopia Boy says:

09:06pm | 18/09/11

Grrrr..malls. 1. Disinterested staff. 2. Designed so you can never remember which way to go. 3. Parking spaces made for only the smallest of cars. 4. The pleasure of paying to park a car. 5. Constant renovations. Malls suck. Read more »

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