shopping malls Confused driver takes her SUV inside a shopping mall (video) Carla Sinclair

shopping Revisit the weird retail vibe of 1990s malls in this huge photo gallery David Pescovitz

economics Tracking the Rise and Fall of the American middle class with shopping malls Thom Dunn

1980s Watch this person passionately rave about the joy of mall walking as exercise (1987) David Pescovitz

Spell Bound: New book explores how occult paperbacks found their way to grocery store checkouts in 1970s Ellsworth Toohey

late stage capitalism This holiday season, do yourself a favor and (re)watch Reverend Billy's "What Would Jesus Buy?"  Jennifer Sandlin

video Nostalgia for 90s malls: The shift from social hubs to ghost towns Popkin

capitalism Thanksgiving 2023 sets new record for holiday shopping Jennifer Sandlin

wristwatches Buy a rainbow Swatch, get a three-year jail term in Malaysia Mark Frauenfelder

ohio Exploring America's abandoned malls Popkin

art A photo booth but instead of photos, an artist is hidden inside drawing your portrait Rusty Blazenhoff

Sears and Roebuck’s monkey business When you could buy a monkey from the Sears mail-order catalog Elías Villoro

Comic Books Freaky finds: shopping for comics at Bizarro-Wuxtry Lee Keeler

amazon Amazon buying dead malls to turn into fulfilment centers Rob Beschizza

mall cops Angry Scottish mall cop gets nasty with man recording video Rob Beschizza

procedural generation The quiet horror of procedural generation Mark Frauenfelder

Boing Boing Gadgets Elfi can send your child a personalized video from Santa in less than 6 hours Boing Boing's Shop

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan adopts Borat catchphrase as new tourism slogan: Very Nice! Rusty Blazenhoff

Business Apple says it's reopening ~100 more stores in U.S. this week, walk-in customers OK in some Xeni Jardin

Games Burning Cat, a new IRL gaming event by the creators of Exploding Kittens Rusty Blazenhoff