Comments on: Can’t Please All of the People All of the Time

By: Jessica Nielsen

Jessica Nielsen — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:43:27 +0000

I love your website just the way it is. Informative and fun. An insight into a person’s (people’s? ) life that has a hobby I happen to enjoy myself. Don’t change~! :3

By: Annette

Annette — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:17:43 +0000

As they say, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. I personally think things are fine the way they are around here. A lot of the time, adding forums to a site makes things get crazy really fast, and I’d rather just post on comment threads than see a site lose some of its charm.

By: SEAN

SEAN — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:30:11 +0000

Sorry Caldor, my idea just didn’t work out. No matter, I will keep trying to come up with an idea that does work to your satisfaction, or your money back. LOL

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:11:07 +0000

JT, I remember Century Plaza being featured on your site (I posted comments on several of your entries on that site, which I check regularly too). I enjoyed your information about old Richway and Treasure Island stores, which I remember from my childhood (they had huge toy departments).

I thought for some reason that Century Plaza was featured on this site as well, but I guess I’m wrong.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:51:28 +0000

I think you ned to fix somthing in the corpus christi listing. It taes FOREVER to load.

By: Karen R

Karen R — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:29:47 +0000

I work in Finance at the corporate offices of a major retailer, with both big box and small shop stores. I LOVE your website, and can only begin to imagine the time and effort required to update and maintain it. What I see on your pages is a direct (and updated) reflection of the reports that come out of our real estate committee. We generally see the writing on the wall several years before a mall reaches meltdown and vacate if the lease terms allow it. This site is a stroll down memory lane. Even if I have not actually been at the malls, I have been privy to the assessment of the regional real estate director, and the reasons for staying in or vacating a certain location.

Keep up the great work! I appreciate your efforts in whatever direction you choose to take them.

By: Jamie B

Jamie B — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:25:04 +0000

This is my favorite retail history website and I think the website should stay pretty much as it is. The only thing I would like to see are updated pictures of current mall postings. Especially when it is demolished or renovated, or when it gets a new wing or anchor. Basically, any update on one of the current malls listed, just in pictures, as well as comments. Caldor and PrangeWay, you don’t have to worry about getting the pictures and coments yourself, you have many posters that seem very willing to help you out with something like this. Other than that this is great website. Keep up the good work!

By: JT

JT — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:16:51 +0000

Chris, LOL, Century Plaza is actually featured on my site, Georgia Retail Memories, which in all honesty partly due to lack of updates doesn’t hold a candle to this one. Personally, I like all the comments on my blog but they have been decreasing due to the weeds growing there blocking the view. I understand that when there are 69 comments with one post that the guys here feel like it’s out of hand. What might surprised them is that I love reading through all the comments…always interesting additional information to be found there. For me, I had an issue in the past where people started posting crazy stuff and I had to moderate the comments, so I have indeed rejected a thread or two but I’m usually pretty lenient as long as it’s on-topic and doesn’t make some suggestion that I was doing, for example, dirty deeds in an old Richway before I was even born. Perhaps they could go here and just have a strict moderation policy so that if the comments go on topic they just reject them? It’s bound to ruffle some feathers, but it’s just a suggestion

By: Steven Swain

Steven Swain — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 03:41:50 +0000

I think sticking to the original mission of this site would make more sense than trying to do a message board and spreading things too thin.

By: Joanie

Joanie — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:39:49 +0000

Hi,

I would still hope there would be a forum. The Groceteria forum is geared toward grocery stores, and the Remembering Retail group is a Yahoo group which is very clumsy to navigate, not to mention all of the ads.

That said, this is by far my favorite “dead mall” site and I check it several times a week to see if there are any updates. I like that it’s not completely focused on “dead malls” but also gives updates on thriving malls as well, and the commentary is well-written.

If the people running this site don’t want the hassle of a forum, then maybe someone reading these comments who has the knowledge of this might want to set one up – the audience is definitely out there!