If someone is denied access due to racism I will stand alongside them to protest. But that's a different issue.
Age discrimination and racial discrimination are all discrimination.
There are comic book stores that don't require malls. Plus a 10 year old should not be at the mall alone in the first place, so he would have a parent present.
That's not the point. The point is that the young boy would not have caused any trouble, and would only provide business to the store. It is not fair that he cannot do something as simple as buying a comic book because of actions of others. Also, by the logic of some posters, comic book stores are private properties as well, and teenagers could cause a chaos in there, so they can ban youth regardless the location of the store. Then the young boy would not be able to buy comics by himself at all.
Also, I went to the mall with my friends on weekends when I was 10 or 11. Nothing bad ever happened to me or my friends because of it. And many people I know back then were allowed to go to the mall without their parents.
Because trouble makers, by their very nature, cause trouble. Why should a mall spend a small fortune dealing with problem children? much easier and more cost effective I imagine to manage a blanket ban.
I don't know how much easier or cost effective this would be. This policy only keeps out the good kids. The trouble makers are likely to cause trouble and retaliate, such as dashing in, causing scene outside and scaring away the shoppers, vandalizing etc. The mall would also be losing quite a bit of business as teenagers DO buy things. I don't think the business they gain would be more than the ones they lost.
Malls will eventually become extinct with or without teenagers. More and more people - young AND old - favor online shopping, standalone box stores, and superstores (Walmart, Target, etc...). When I was young we hung out at malls and caused problems - nowadays, kids "hang out" on PS3 and XBOX.
Online shopping is not the same as you can't try out things before you buy. Especially clothes, some things looks good in the picture, but in real life they look like crap. Or they look good on the rack, but they look horrible on you. Additionally, lots of times each store have different sizes, and even in the same store the sizes can be different. So in one store you are a M, in another you're S, or in the same store you are a M for t-shirts and S for tanks. It would just be a lot easier to shop in real shops. Even electronics, many people like to play around with it and see how it works before buying it. Superstores are not always ideal for buying clothes, especially if you like brand names. Plus, many superstores are in malls.
The kids nowadays obviously don't only hang out on PS3 and XBOX or we wouldn't have the mall rats problem
Here in the Sacramento, CA area, the new trend is essentially a bunch of large box stores connected together to form what amounts to an outdoor shopping center. The two malls on Truxel Road just north of I-80 in Sacramento, CA are the best examples of this.
What happens to those malls if it rains/snows, especially the ones located in colder cities?
yoyo5280, nice avatar! It scared me for a second there. I thought my computer froze!!