The diner had the best breakfast. You could get a waffle the size of your head covered in syrup with a side of eggs and toast with orange juice to drink for only 7 bucks
look at how much wages have stagnated in comparison to the cost of goods. No one can afford to shop at malls anymore. Sad, because I love mall shopping. The rare time when I can afford new clothes, I'd rather try them on in store before I buy. It has mainly to do with the current generation just barely affording rent and food with 3 part time jobs and a college degree that's basically useless. Most people just can't afford retail prices anymore.
You should check out 4 malls in the DC area which are worth checking out. These are 2 sets of malls that are right across the street from each other. The first set of malls are Tyson's I and II aka the Fashion Center at Tysons corner and the Galleria. The Galleria is the most luxurious mall I have even seen. They're got a Saks 5th Avenue, a Gucci, a Versace, and a Dolce & Gabana store. Tyson's I is the mall of all malls in this area, it is huge and THRIVING. Malls like this are essential to understanding the dead mall phenomenon since they have gobbled up a large chunk of the dead former customer base. If you go west and south of these two malls, you are in the wealthiest part of Fairfax County. The growth of the upper class at the expense of the middle class is another reason for the decline of malls that primarily serve a middle class base.The second set of malls are the Chevy Chase Pavilion and the Mazza Galleria are 2 upscale malls that are operating at roughly half capacity. I'm guessing the biggest reason for their declines is the opening of Bethesda Row nearby and the revitalization Rockville. Town Centers have become more hip than malls recently, so moneyed customers are flocking to these places while letting the malls of their childhood rot. Sorry if that was long winded.
Alex Summy On a road trip down to n.c, i visited tysons 1, i think. It was one of the tyson(s), with the subway station, and the apartment complex nearby.
This past year in the DC area we lost Landmark Mall (Alexandria, VA), Springfield Mall (10-15 min down I95) was completely redone. I heard that Fair Oaks Mall is dying (in an upper middle-class area too), Manassas Mall is nearly dead, and Ballston Commons (This mall has been dying since the 1990s) is getting a huge makeover. We have far too much retail in many parts of the country.
Ace’s Adventures I Really Loved The Martinsburg Mall In Martinsburg, WV The One Thing I Loved About The Martinsburg Mall Was The Par For The Course Indoor Golf Resort Cause The Par For The Course Indoor Golf Resort Had An Arcade In That Mini Golf Course Resort And Also The Time Out Arcade And Also I Kept Seeing These Pinball Arcade Games At The Par For The Course Indoor Golf Resort Pinball Arcade Games Called The Getaway: High Speed II And Gilligan’s Island The Pinball Arcade Game The Getaway: High Speed II Is The Arcade Game My Mom & My Brother Played At The Par For The Course Indoor Golf Resort At The Martinsburg Mall In Martinsburg, WV
Thanks Ace. Another great video. I worked in a mall for 20 years. Appreciate the preservation aspect you're trying to accomplish. As others have mentioned, I like the narration throughout the video. Not only the history, but also brings some perspective at what you're showing. So, I recommend more, not less. Keep up the excellent work.
You should check out Winchester, VAs Apple Blossom Mall. Belk, JC Penny, Kohls, Red Lobster and GW Hotel are rumored to move from Winchester to Martinsburg in 2023. The land where the mall is to be returned to Frederick County
Ace / Anthony . Also Chambersburg Mall In Scotland PA on Route 997 , is hanging on by a thread only 2 anchor stores are in operation : the BonTon and Burlington Coat Factory . but the interior stores are non existent . Love your channel . so fun .
when you are in Texas, you should go to the Southwest Center Mall in Dallas. That mall is so dead. They only have 2 anchors stores and a few little shops inside.
I don't mind your babbling in your videos. I think it's really nice that you share the background info on these malls. Since you are always sharing information with your viewers I thought I would share some with you. My husband picked up a copy of our local paper on Sunday and I read an article that said that over the months of February and March of 2017 over 60,000 retail jobs were lost Nationwide. That is scary. Retail jobs support a great deal of the workforce of the American people. I often worry about how people are going to find jobs to support their families.
Yeah, it is scary all right to think how many retail jobs are disappearing, due to competition and people moving to online shopping. :( That trend makes me sad, since I'm in my 30s and prefer shopping in traditional stores over online shopping. I only resort to online shopping, if I can't find something easily at stores near me.
A lot of those jobs just shifted. I have bought lots of unique items from online mom & pop operations, which provides income to people with skills and ideas. As for malls, there are several categorizes of stores that are basically extinct. These include record/CD stores, movie stores arcades, toy stores (KB Toys) and pet stores. Provide some interesting things to do and see (beside the same bland women's fashion stores) and people will come. Heck, I would love to take one of those abandoned Sears stores and turn it into an indoor shooting range. It would bring back a men's demographic to the mall. Throw in a Anytime Fitness gym , few causal restaurants, a dine-in movie theater and a skating/ice rink and BLAM! you would have a fully revived mall.
Visit St. Louis Mills! Also getting into Jamestown mall during daylight would be amazing. North St. Louis county has no more malls unfortunately so exploring the remaining decaying malls would make me so happy
People shop online. They shop in outdoor malls where they can drive right up to the stores they want. Outdoor malls are also cheaper to maintain and easier to patrol. Several of the malls in the area are dead but the outdoor shopping areas are booming.
Speaking of MO and places near by: Alton's Mall (just north of St. Louis) had recently published piece in the Advantage paper about their plans on what they are wanting to do with their dead/dying mall. They are going to take out the Macy's and have plans to turn the space where the old Sears is into a Theater. They are also wanting to move all the shops down into the lower level and subdivide the entire upper floor, cutting off all access to the upstairs lots save for outside entrances. All these plans, imo, is too little too late. The Theater had been propositioned for the past 20 years, when they closed the tiny one 2 blocks down the road and was building Sears. The only reason to really go into the main mall is for Ogla's (Greek/Italian Gyros), and that is on the second floor. They would have to either have to re-build the restaurant downstairs or they would have to move out all together. They already took a good chunk of the lower floor and turned it into a Ross and a Library... So outside of a Spencer's and Bath and Body Works, most of the other stores in the mall already have strip counterparts. And there are empty strip stores just across the street if any of the remaining ones want to bug out of the mall as well.
This retail recession will find a bottom but not before taking Sears/K-Mart down with it. I think that is the final shoe to drop in this whole saga. Malls will continue to think outside the box when it comes to anchors, so I think you will see a lot more things like Grocery stores, Costcos etc etc become anchors.
I know you will probably never get up to british Colombia to explore malls but in the town of port hardy there are two dead malls and the town only has 5100 people but when both were open and full the town had about 6500 and receded heavily then rebounded some what, the north island mall was built in 1978 and closed in the late 80s and the thunderbird mall opened in the 80s and is still open to find photos and locations look up port hardy thunderbird mall and port hardy trustee mall even though its called north island mall thats the easiest way to find it.
Someone please explain to me how someone thinks changing the name of a mall makes it more appealing? If no one is shopping there they aren’t just going to suddenly say “oh I like the name better now, let’s go shop there”! 😂
Online shopping and malls in dangerous towns/neighborhoods obviously are gonna go sooner or later. And that's just in America. Canada, Australia and European countries, malls are still popular. Despite the fact that there is easy access to online shopping and everywhere that I exampled, has bad areas as well..... Hmmm....
I think what some people don't realize, is that from a study I saw, the U.S. is more overretailed, than any other country. Even moreso than Canada and England. Not to say there aren't other factors at work going against struggling and dead malls, of course. The fact the middle class doesn't have as much discretionary income vs. years ago, shoppers favoring more successful malls(even if they're a slight further drive away) over struggling malls closer to them, the fact some chains do a better job of stocking merchandise at their more successful stores, and some people switching some of their shopping to online sites. Finally, you are of course right that the perception of crime(even if it's an undeserved perception overblown from one incident), has sadly often started the course of malls onto an eventual decline to the point they close(i.e. Dixie Square Mall in Harvey, IL, Owings Mills Mall in Owings Mills, MD, Mall of Memphis in Memphis, TN, etc).
Well the point is you dont get the same great time in online shop as in real mall. In europe people are very different from america it doesn't mean that we are shopping online less in europe thats not true.. also in online shop you can't touch and feel the item in your hand, also you never gonna know what you will get after shopping online.
Malls are still popular in the US -- there's just too many of them. The US is becoming more densely populated with more Americans choosing to move to the cities for school and job opportunities and leaving their rural/small towns behind. There are malls dying in the cities, too, but that's because US public transit is gradually getting better. You don't really need a mall in every neighborhood when you can get from one end of the city to the other in less than an hour. Europe, Canada, Australia, and most other Developed Countries are already densely populated with infrastructure good enough to ferry people around to their malls. I live in a Metro Area with NINETEEN malls. About 1/4 of them are dying -- but rather than be torn down they're being redeveloped into mixed-use centers because people are moving here and want housing.
In the United States, we have about 7.3 square feet per capita versus 1.7 square feet per capita in Japan and France, and the U.K.’s 1.3 square feet. So thus the reason so many stores are dying.
Y'all should go to my local mall in California it's fairly unknown and really dead its hilltop mall in Richmond Ca the mall has been going down hill for years there's a lot of empty stores and Walmart keeps it alive basically the first anchor store Jc penny is planning to close soon so quite in bad shape many people don't go hilltop area to shop much and go farther out I remember as a child the mall being lively but now down in the gutter
I think it is over... Eastland Mall in Columbus OH... Has lost Macys.. That shithole has faced a mountain of problems from kids starting fights to crtime and then you got the morons who Prey on woman in changing rooms... Then on the owners side.. Rent is too high and owners that do not care about what people want....
I know you have done the Great Northern Mall in Clay NY but, I have heard that the Freindlys and Subway and another store has left. If you're that way maybe you can check it out again? Thanks if you can.
Alton Square in Alton, IL would be cool. Vintage 70s. I understand they're maybe doing some renovations? Mall is open. Jamestown Mall in St. Louis would be incredibly cool, but closed and reported to be tough to get in without being caught. There is a night video on RUclips, but a daytime walk through would be awesome.
I'm glad I did a stop at Jamestown, in early 2014. My visit was right after Penney's outlet store closed, and while Macy's was closing down there. Sad mall to visit, but a cool mall to visit as well. I agree with the suggestion to do Alton Square, Saint Louis Union Station, and also Saint Louis Mills(or whatever that outlet mall is now called). Didn't realize someone did a night walkthrough video of Jamestown, I'll have to look up that video for myself!
Such a failed effort, a mall a business with business's inside brought to light in the mid-70's and guess what died within 30 years. Compared to the nationally known marketing concepts the mall was just one, big blight that hardly had a good day or a golden eon. I mean sure yes the malls accomplished a golden era... Once, but frankly when you have a economic idea that fails so quickly it's kinda like a punch to the gut. The internet came too quick.
This explore made me miss shopping in indoor malls...back in the day,when it was good!Great video!
Ace you the man- keep doing your thing. Thanks for the upload as always.
The diner had the best breakfast. You could get a waffle the size of your head covered in syrup with a side of eggs and toast with orange juice to drink for only 7 bucks
Martinsburg mall 1992-2017 R.I.P
look at how much wages have stagnated in comparison to the cost of goods. No one can afford to shop at malls anymore. Sad, because I love mall shopping. The rare time when I can afford new clothes, I'd rather try them on in store before I buy. It has mainly to do with the current generation just barely affording rent and food with 3 part time jobs and a college degree that's basically useless. Most people just can't afford retail prices anymore.
This was another one of my favorite malls that was featured. You are doing a fabulous job.
I like when you talk and give info about the mall.
keep talking!! I want to know all about each mall!
Damn this mall wasn't even around for 25 years, that's kinda sad.
Great video, the silence is sadening. Its a shame that these malls are dying. I love mall architecture.
You should check out 4 malls in the DC area which are worth checking out. These are 2 sets of malls that are right across the street from each other. The first set of malls are Tyson's I and II aka the Fashion Center at Tysons corner and the Galleria. The Galleria is the most luxurious mall I have even seen. They're got a Saks 5th Avenue, a Gucci, a Versace, and a Dolce & Gabana store. Tyson's I is the mall of all malls in this area, it is huge and THRIVING. Malls like this are essential to understanding the dead mall phenomenon since they have gobbled up a large chunk of the dead former customer base. If you go west and south of these two malls, you are in the wealthiest part of Fairfax County. The growth of the upper class at the expense of the middle class is another reason for the decline of malls that primarily serve a middle class base.The second set of malls are the Chevy Chase Pavilion and the Mazza Galleria are 2 upscale malls that are operating at roughly half capacity. I'm guessing the biggest reason for their declines is the opening of Bethesda Row nearby and the revitalization Rockville. Town Centers have become more hip than malls recently, so moneyed customers are flocking to these places while letting the malls of their childhood rot. Sorry if that was long winded.
Alex Summy On a road trip down to n.c, i visited tysons 1, i think. It was one of the tyson(s), with the subway station, and the apartment complex nearby.
This past year in the DC area we lost Landmark Mall (Alexandria, VA), Springfield Mall (10-15 min down I95) was completely redone. I heard that Fair Oaks Mall is dying (in an upper middle-class area too), Manassas Mall is nearly dead, and Ballston Commons (This mall has been dying since the 1990s) is getting a huge makeover. We have far too much retail in many parts of the country.
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Thanks Ace. Another great video. I worked in a mall for 20 years. Appreciate the preservation aspect you're trying to accomplish. As others have mentioned, I like the narration throughout the video. Not only the history, but also brings some perspective at what you're showing. So, I recommend more, not less. Keep up the excellent work.
Main reason to Martinsburg Mall shut down was because of drug addicts and it lost all exchange stores including Walmart
You should check out Winchester, VAs Apple Blossom Mall. Belk, JC Penny, Kohls, Red Lobster and GW Hotel are rumored to move from Winchester to Martinsburg in 2023. The land where the mall is to be returned to Frederick County
That didn't happen
Ace / Anthony . Also Chambersburg Mall In Scotland PA on Route 997 , is hanging on by a thread only 2 anchor stores are in operation : the BonTon and Burlington Coat Factory . but the interior stores are non existent . Love your channel . so fun .
don't forget Gander Mountain filing for bankruptcy. love the videos. i pretty much thumbs up before even watching it.
when you are in Texas, you should go to the Southwest Center Mall in Dallas. That mall is so dead. They only have 2 anchors stores and a few little shops inside.
Sarah Kelly It is probably about to get worse with Macy's recently leaving. Is Valley View still open or did they finally close the interior mall?
It was closed earlier this year. Only Sears and the movie theater remain.
I am glad that I went there last Spring to see it.
Wicked video I wish I lived in US been and love it stuck in shit London man
that's a good one, you are quickly becoming one of my favorites 😉
I don't mind your babbling in your videos. I think it's really nice that you share the background info on these malls. Since you are always sharing information with your viewers I thought I would share some with you. My husband picked up a copy of our local paper on Sunday and I read an article that said that over the months of February and March of 2017 over 60,000 retail jobs were lost Nationwide. That is scary. Retail jobs support a great deal of the workforce of the American people. I often worry about how people are going to find jobs to support their families.
Yeah, it is scary all right to think how many retail jobs are disappearing, due to competition and people moving to online shopping. :( That trend makes me sad, since I'm in my 30s and prefer shopping in traditional stores over online shopping. I only resort to online shopping, if I can't find something easily at stores near me.
A lot of those jobs just shifted. I have bought lots of unique items from online mom & pop operations, which provides income to people with skills and ideas. As for malls, there are several categorizes of stores that are basically extinct. These include record/CD stores, movie stores arcades, toy stores (KB Toys) and pet stores. Provide some interesting things to do and see (beside the same bland women's fashion stores) and people will come. Heck, I would love to take one of those abandoned Sears stores and turn it into an indoor shooting range. It would bring back a men's demographic to the mall. Throw in a Anytime Fitness gym , few causal restaurants, a dine-in movie theater and a skating/ice rink and BLAM! you would have a fully revived mall.
agree
The beginning scene with that hallway reminds me of an elementary school hallway
This mall is was just about 8 years ago. It’s now a Hobby Lobby, furniture store, strip mall, with several new restaurants and parceled out stores.
Visit St. Louis Mills! Also getting into Jamestown mall during daylight would be amazing. North St. Louis county has no more malls unfortunately so exploring the remaining decaying malls would make me so happy
grew up going here, and i miss the putt-putt place the most. it was the only one in the county that was opened year-round
People shop online. They shop in outdoor malls where they can drive right up to the stores they want. Outdoor malls are also cheaper to maintain and easier to patrol. Several of the malls in the area are dead but the outdoor shopping areas are booming.
I'd love to see the inside of Northridge!!! I've heard it hasn't been messed up by vandals.
I used to shop there when I was 4. There was a NASCAR shop and I would get cars there.good memories
I grew up there and went to the mall when it was open.
Sad to see it die!
Nice foodcourt, the titles are awesome!
I used to go there all the time, sad to see it go
Good Up!! Liked your video!!
I feel bad for the trees.
I use to work here, I loved those trees.
Speaking of MO and places near by: Alton's Mall (just north of St. Louis) had recently published piece in the Advantage paper about their plans on what they are wanting to do with their dead/dying mall. They are going to take out the Macy's and have plans to turn the space where the old Sears is into a Theater. They are also wanting to move all the shops down into the lower level and subdivide the entire upper floor, cutting off all access to the upstairs lots save for outside entrances.
All these plans, imo, is too little too late. The Theater had been propositioned for the past 20 years, when they closed the tiny one 2 blocks down the road and was building Sears. The only reason to really go into the main mall is for Ogla's (Greek/Italian Gyros), and that is on the second floor. They would have to either have to re-build the restaurant downstairs or they would have to move out all together. They already took a good chunk of the lower floor and turned it into a Ross and a Library... So outside of a Spencer's and Bath and Body Works, most of the other stores in the mall already have strip counterparts. And there are empty strip stores just across the street if any of the remaining ones want to bug out of the mall as well.
Good video. Keep up the good work!!!
This retail recession will find a bottom but not before taking Sears/K-Mart down with it. I think that is the final shoe to drop in this whole saga. Malls will continue to think outside the box when it comes to anchors, so I think you will see a lot more things like Grocery stores, Costcos etc etc become anchors.
I know you will probably never get up to british Colombia to explore malls but in the town of port hardy there are two dead malls and the town only has 5100 people but when both were open and full the town had about 6500 and receded heavily then rebounded some what, the north island mall was built in 1978 and closed in the late 80s and the thunderbird mall opened in the 80s and is still open to find photos and locations look up port hardy thunderbird mall and port hardy trustee mall even though its called north island mall thats the easiest way to find it.
Someone please explain to me how someone thinks changing the name of a mall makes it more appealing? If no one is shopping there they aren’t just going to suddenly say “oh I like the name better now, let’s go shop there”! 😂
love the new titles
I'm working on trying to get in to Metcalf South Mall in Overland Park Kansas.
BuccaneerBruce if you do i want to come!
BuccaneerBruce Please do! Back in the 80s when we go visit my grandma in Kansas we would spend a day at that mall.
The mistake the mall made was when they sealed off going from Walmart and going into the mall. It was downhill from then
Is it just me or do most Malls have a touch of the old Schools we all went to inside them?
Online shopping and malls in dangerous towns/neighborhoods obviously are gonna go sooner or later. And that's just in America. Canada, Australia and European countries, malls are still popular. Despite the fact that there is easy access to online shopping and everywhere that I exampled, has bad areas as well..... Hmmm....
I think what some people don't realize, is that from a study I saw, the U.S. is more overretailed, than any other country. Even moreso than Canada and England.
Not to say there aren't other factors at work going against struggling and dead malls, of course. The fact the middle class doesn't have as much discretionary income vs. years ago, shoppers favoring more successful malls(even if they're a slight further drive away) over struggling malls closer to them, the fact some chains do a better job of stocking merchandise at their more successful stores, and some people switching some of their shopping to online sites. Finally, you are of course right that the perception of crime(even if it's an undeserved perception overblown from one incident), has sadly often started the course of malls onto an eventual decline to the point they close(i.e. Dixie Square Mall in Harvey, IL, Owings Mills Mall in Owings Mills, MD, Mall of Memphis in Memphis, TN, etc).
Well the point is you dont get the same great time in online shop as in real mall. In europe people are very different from america it doesn't mean that we are shopping online less in europe thats not true.. also in online shop you can't touch and feel the item in your hand, also you never gonna know what you will get after shopping online.
Malls are still popular in the US -- there's just too many of them.
The US is becoming more densely populated with more Americans choosing to move to the cities for school and job opportunities and leaving their rural/small towns behind. There are malls dying in the cities, too, but that's because US public transit is gradually getting better. You don't really need a mall in every neighborhood when you can get from one end of the city to the other in less than an hour.
Europe, Canada, Australia, and most other Developed Countries are already densely populated with infrastructure good enough to ferry people around to their malls.
I live in a Metro Area with NINETEEN malls. About 1/4 of them are dying -- but rather than be torn down they're being redeveloped into mixed-use centers because people are moving here and want housing.
In the United States, we have about 7.3 square feet per capita versus 1.7 square feet per capita in Japan and France, and the U.K.’s 1.3 square feet. So thus the reason so many stores are dying.
An article I read (used to live near this mall) said a Panera and a 5 Guys were being built in this location
I hope they saved the trees before demolishing. Poor trees!
Sigh this was my favorite place in the world
3000 miles is a long way to go for dead mall
Outdoor strip malls seem to be the thing again these days which were common before indoor malls.
You forgot about hhgregg they just recently filed for bankruptcy
You know, if the mall had that intro that you did for this video, it probably wouldn't be dead now :'( They are getting very slick :D
I'm glad JCPENNEY at our mall isn't closing.
Y'all should go to my local mall in California it's fairly unknown and really dead its hilltop mall in Richmond Ca the mall has been going down hill for years there's a lot of empty stores and Walmart keeps it alive basically the first anchor store Jc penny is planning to close soon so quite in bad shape many people don't go hilltop area to shop much and go farther out I remember as a child the mall being lively but now down in the gutter
1:58 your intro reminds me of The Journey from GTA 4 for some reason XD
The mall sucks anyway before it was closed
rip WHAG/WDVM channel 25 Hagerstown.
Martinsburg mall had been a shit hole for years I grew about about 15 minutes from martinsburg in shepherdstown
Our area never had a SPORTS ATHOR. Dick's has a fixure here. God, I hope Dick's does NOT CLOSE!!
plz do the blue hen mall aka the blue hen center
Need to do the regency square mall here in jacksonville florida
I'll betcha "The diner" made some really great corned beef hash.
Am I seeing things?? Did you just take a new abandoned video down?
Sounds like the news report is narrated by a 12-year-old.
I think it is over... Eastland Mall in Columbus OH... Has lost Macys.. That shithole has faced a mountain of problems from kids starting fights to crtime and then you got the morons who Prey on woman in changing rooms... Then on the owners side.. Rent is too high and owners that do not care about what people want....
1:05 to 1:49 she sounds a lot like the actress that plays Meg from Family Guy.
11:21 - I am interested in how far from Philadelphia the word "Hoagies" is used,
other than in a Wawa store.
I know you have done the Great Northern Mall in Clay NY but, I have heard that the Freindlys and Subway and another store has left. If you're that way maybe you can check it out again? Thanks if you can.
Start streaming your "live" video feeds..so that ALL of your Subs get a chance to see your content!! it doesn't make sense NOT to stream it!!
omg the opening music is fire, what's the name and artist??
Amethyst Star this is our group Betamaxx
Alton Square!
also do Jamestown, Union Station, and St Louis Outlets
Alton Square in Alton, IL would be cool. Vintage 70s. I understand they're maybe doing some renovations? Mall is open. Jamestown Mall in St. Louis would be incredibly cool, but closed and reported to be tough to get in without being caught. There is a night video on RUclips, but a daytime walk through would be awesome.
Union Station in St. Louis is in the process of converting to an aquarium. Not sure if you can get in or if there is anything left to see.
Northwest Plaza-GONE. Crestwood Mall-GONE. St. Louis Centre-GONE.
I'm glad I did a stop at Jamestown, in early 2014. My visit was right after Penney's outlet store closed, and while Macy's was closing down there. Sad mall to visit, but a cool mall to visit as well. I agree with the suggestion to do Alton Square, Saint Louis Union Station, and also Saint Louis Mills(or whatever that outlet mall is now called). Didn't realize someone did a night walkthrough video of Jamestown, I'll have to look up that video for myself!
that mall never go to decay :( if yall want more info on this mall "nation of decay" = jaden and brandon live near this mall
Such a failed effort, a mall a business with business's inside brought to light in the mid-70's and guess what died within 30 years. Compared to the nationally known marketing concepts the mall was just one, big blight that hardly had a good day or a golden eon. I mean sure yes the malls accomplished a golden era... Once, but frankly when you have a economic idea that fails so quickly it's kinda like a punch to the gut. The internet came too quick.