SuperMalls Are Dead?
Is The Coronavirus The
Final Nail In The Coffin?
1. Infection Risk Level In SuperMalls.
Centralized Airconditioning And
Indoor Circulating Air Could Be A
Hotbed For Coronavirus Transmission.
Imperceptible Virus Super Spreaders.
2. Enclosed Multi-Floor Designs
Has The Potential To Super Spread
The Coronavirus To Lower Floors.
When People Are On The Same level
The Spread Of The Virus Has
Limited Range; However, That
Range Will Be Extended Downward
When An Infected Person
Cough At The Top Floor
Of An Open Space Area Like
The Edge Of A Railing, Escalator
Or At The Mall's Central Atrium.
Billions of Viruses Can Potentially
Spread Into A Very Wide Area
Into All Levels From The Top Floor
Down To The Ground Floor.
3. No Direct Sunlight In Many Areas.
Preventing Sunlight's Natural Ability
To Kill The Coronavirus Inside Malls.
4. The Coronavirus Can Survive
For Many Days On Different Surfaces.
5. Customers Hesitate To Visit Big Malls
Due To Difficulty In Maintaining
Constant Safe Distance With Strangers
Many Mall Goers Does Not Abide
To Strict Social Distancing Rules.
6. Refusal To Try On Clothes
That Could Have Been Potentially
Worn By Someone Infected
7. Refrain From Going To Restaurants.
Impossible To Know If Utensils
Such As Spoon, Fork and Plates
Are Coronavirus Free.
They Have To Remove Mask To Eat
Takeout In Malls Are Not Practical.
8. Buy Food From Stand Alone Shops.
Customers Can Go Home Immediately
Without Ridiculous Parking Fee
Just To Buy Take Out Food.
Ability To Reheat Food To Kill
Any Virus And Use Home Utensils.
9. Extremely High Rental Rates
Aside From Many Other Fees
Collected By Mall Owners.
Unsustainable For Many Tenants.
Huge Reduction In Foot Traffic.
10. Good Parents Are Not Willing
To Expose Their Kids To Risk
11. Movie House Are Dead And
Its One Of The Main Attractions That
Pulls-In Customers To Go To Malls.
12. Outdoor Is Safer Than Indoor.
Highly Advisable To Wear Good Mask
That Can Filter Small Particles When
Inside The Enclosed Area Of Malls.
Refrain From Using Ineffective
Washable Cloth Mask That Cannot
Filter The (0.125 μm) Coronavirus.
13. Alfresco or Outdoor Dining Are
Safer Aside From Being Cheaper
14. The Unpleasant, Undesirable,
Troublesome and Irritating
Supermall Customer Experience.
It Is Not The Same Anymore and
It Will Remain That Way Into
The Foreseeable Future.
The Inconvenience Customers Must
Endure Just To Get In,
Aside From The Risk Involved
Being Surrounded By Strangers and
Sharing An Enclosed Air System
With Potential Coronavirus Carriers.
15. Online Shops Will Kill SuperMalls
Entrepreneurs Are Actually Better Off
Selling Online Directly To Customers
-No Exorbitant SuperMalls Rental Fees
SuperMall Tenants Has Always Been
At The Mercy Of SuperMall Owners
-SuperMall Owners Can
Kick Them Out Or Transfer
Them To A Terrible Location
Or Refuse Contract Renewal
-SuperMalls Owner Always
Limit What Entrepreneurs Can Sell
Inside Their Own Shop.
SuperMalls Force Tenants To
Sell SuperMall Owner's
Branded Products Exclusively
Which Impede Tenant's Rights.
-SuperMall Owners Unfair Practices:
Gather And Analyze
Tenants Monthly Sales Data.
If The Tenant's Business Is
Too Good And Too Profitable
To Ignore. SuperMall Owners Will
Operate Their Own Store Exactly
Similar And Directly Competing
With Their Good Longtime Tenants.
SuperMall Owners Will Then Force
Hardworking Tenants To Transfer
To Bad Locations Against Their Will.
-SuperMalls Former Advantage Has
Turned Into Its Greatest Weakness
So Much Overhead Cost To Maintain
An Almost Empty Supermall.
-Online Sellers Do Not Need SuperMalls
The Coronavirus Has Sealed Its Fate.
-Why Buy Products In SuperMalls
For ₱1000, When You Can Buy
The Same Product For ₱750 Online.