Gen Z is saving the mall one selfie at a time

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For 20 years, this barren landscape lay dormant and forgotten. But now, the juvenile ratus mecatus has arrived, along with several of his friends.

Today, they'll spend the afternoon exploring, socializing and foraging for food. What fun. The empty plains of La Censa and Ardeen,

once populated, only by the odd silver fox, have come alive once again. Yay! All right, you heard about the Plains of La Cenza being repopulated.

What is the ratus mercatus and what environment is it rejuvenating? Well, La Cenza, does it have something to do with people wearing underwear again? underwear is back baby. It does not.

Martha Ratus Mercatus. Ratus. That means rat. Ratus.

Marketus Market. I speak Latin, I'm Latin. Um, before hanging at the mall.

Yes, you are correct for the point. Specifically mall rats. Uh, would be ratus, mercatus. The headline from the Wall Street Journal reads

generation of mall rats has arrived. Oh! Yes, Gen Z has gone back to the mall big time. According to the article, shoppers between the ages of 18 and 24

bought 62% of their total purchases in brick and mortar stores last year. Why is Gen Z loving the mall? Three words, Gav, New York fries.

Ooh! Can't get that on the internet? No. I think Gen Z is going back to the mall.

I don't know if you know this, a lot of people say that Gen Z is very similar to like the Boomer generation. So I assume they're going to the mall

because it's a great place to walk around. Gotta get those steps. Gotta get those steps in somehow. They all have an Apple watch.

They all need steps. Martha, why is Gen Z being recalled to the mall? Well, they're going to the mall. They're foraging for things to feed themselves

during the imminent apocalypse. So, because they are Gen Z. There is no thing after Z, there is no other letter. They know.

They know. So that's what they are doing. They are just foraging, like getting things, like water and stuff.

Doom spending. Doom spending. That's a good guess. Does anyone know for real what the big appeal

is for this generation? I think they love them all because they like to socialize. It's a good way for them to meet people. They need it.

Have you spoken to a Gen Z? They need interaction that's not them staring at themselves in a phone. So yeah, go to them all, honey.

Yeah, post COVID socializing, according to the article, Gen Z grew up under pandemic lockdown. So buying clothes and bubble tea in person is new and exciting. Wow.

Motivation shoplifting. Also, yeah. Which they couldn't do on the internet. Yeah, you can't shop.

Yeah, you can't shoplift on the internet. I mean, it's not exactly shoplifting, But they say being able to touch and feel a product and then pay for it.

But touching and feeling it, seeing how it actually looks on is better for them than getting the old online surprise. So they're just learning how to live in society. That's all that is.

Yeah. Malls have been making changes in order to cater to the younger generation. What are malls adding to cater to the Gen Z crowd?

stations where they can get their ADHD meds. Oh! Good guess, Jen. Do they have like chill out zones for when you just can't even?

Maybe, but no. Tom? Is it TikTok photo booth? Like, it's like a whole, like they've just like opened

the store and it's like all these like different backgrounds that people can film on or like a content farm. Yes, that is exactly correct. Yes, they are making more TikTok and Insta friendly with brightly colored nooks and stairwells and pop-up installations

For this generation. It's not just about meeting at the mall. It's about also posting the entire experience There's a term for this type of hybrid activity What is the term for shopping in real life while also simultaneously posting the experience on your phone? It's a online inline shopping

I'm online, but I'm in line, you know in line online is good. Guess some Jen Is it a mall crawl? Is it a shop drop? Wait, does it have to rhyme? Did I just make that up? It's not have to rhyme is it content Sumerism That's very close

The Forbes headline reads the future of retail is Fidgetle What? PHY, G-I-T-A-L.

Physical and digital. That's disgusting. But an excellent Olivia Newton-John song. Let's get fidget-o, fidget-o.

I wanna get fidget-o. Let me see you on TikTok. Let's tell all the kidnappers where we are. I want to get in picture.

Generation X famously spent most of their youth hanging out at the mall in the 80s and 90s,