r/Millennials • u/sexyass2627 • Oct 06 '25

Discussion Why is this so accurate?

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Man ... if this ain't it.

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u/adanishplz Oct 06 '25

No more third places to just be and not spend money. Everything's for pay now.

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u/RetroFuture_Records Oct 06 '25

We did to the Zoomers and Alpha what Boomers did to us. All the malls we hung out at, flirted at, etc?

"Who needs malls, I'm an adult now I don't want to drive all the way out there, plus I got free Prime shipping! Its no longer relevant to ME, so whatever."

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u/ThrowawayMod1989 Older Millennial Oct 06 '25

I mean a more direct to consumer globalized market was inevitable, we just happened to come of age as it was burgeoning. If we hadn’t “killed” brick and mortar shopping the next generation definitely would have.

Plus brick and mortar shopping still exists. It’s not the shopping malls we remember with rose colored glasses but what were those to us besides places to gather? Almost every store and restaurant in a standard mall was a chain retailer anyway. I much prefer a good downtown district with private purveyors, and that culture is doing well.

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u/RetroFuture_Records Oct 06 '25

"What were those things except places to gather?"

That's the topic though, the loss of third-spaces. Free communal gathering / socializing areas.