Food establishments dont appear to have any problems.ScoobyDoes wrote: We managed to find a table easily at the food court in 313, which for a normal Saturday lunchtime can be an issue.
Not every transaction will result in profit. It is common for businesses to run losses (no choice lah, patrons cannot be forced to spend if they don't want to) hoping that they can somehow recoup one way or another. E.g. Macdonalds or Hallmark franchisor will own a chain of 10 stores within a geographical area, some of them loss centers while others are profit generators. In the end, they hope that the profitable locations will help offset the unprofitable ones. Another eg, many USA retailers will operate at a loss until November comes around, when the holiday shopping season kicks in and hopefully the profit will help offset the losses for the year. Hence the term "Black Friday" which is the Friday after Thanksgiving Day, when the stores move from "red" to "black". Red ink traditionally denotes losses in the accounting books and black ink is used to denote profit.Barnsley wrote: other shops empty I can only assume that their owners are running some kind of tax dodge whereby its a benefot to have a few loss making establishments.
Same findings in the same places as you and Barnsley. I think as many made it a 4-day weekend, but in reality, I wonder how much most of those shops ever sell.ScoobyDoes wrote:Go at the weekend.
It was a public holiday yesterday I know, but the weekend is a different case. Add to that we try to figure out how many people took Monday off to have a super long weekend away somewhere.
Brah wrote: The new building, Gateway, is the new Central (the one in Clarke Quay) - crap stores where no one will shop. Waste of space and fanfare. Maybe the as yet to be opened other wing will offer something of value.
It's designed to be like that. Many SGn 'malls' are - such that going down 5 floors by escalator? Well you'll have to walk the length of every floor to go to the escalator to next level down. To and fro, to and fro. It's really cynical, it's designed to keep you in there as long as possible, preferably completely lost, and walking past lots of merchandise you hadn't considered.ScoobyDoes wrote: It's as easy to get lost inside as ION, which i detest with every fibre of my soul.
I long ago stopped trying trying to figure Ion out and simply let my better half lead the way. It's interesting: outside of shopping centres, she's blur like sotong when it comes to a sense of direction. But once she's inside a mall, any mall, even for the first time, she's like a guided missile.JR8 wrote:ScoobyDoes wrote: Ion must be a pinnacle of it. Asymmetric, escalators in all directions, between, 1, 2, 3, floors at a time? Maybe? I remember last time in there, battling to figure a way out ... literally. Not my kind of place, it's like a retail version of 'Hotel California'...
Is the aim to have both sides of Orchard Road walkable without going outside?PNGMK wrote:I really detest the push by the Orchard Road designed to get people off the surface streets. I don't want to have to walk through bloody Ion to tranverse the old crossing on Scotts Road/Orchard Road.
313 and Wisma Atria, for example, are the opposite.....you can go right up and right back down again without having to walk along any floor. Perfect, and if I want to walk, I can.JR8 wrote: Ion must be a pinnacle of it. Asymmetric, escalators in all directions, between, 1, 2, 3, floors at a time? Maybe? I remember last time in there, battling to figure a way out ... literally. Not my kind of place, it's like a retail version of 'Hotel California'...
Like Hong Kong's Central district. You can basically walk forever without hitting ground level and even when you are outside you would be on a covered walkway. You can virtually walk from the Macau Ferry Terminal to Admiralty without hitting street level or getting wet in the rain....perfect.Is the aim to have both sides of Orchard Road walkable without going outside?
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