Do shopping centers annoy you?

What annoys me about them is the ignorant people pushing trolleys or prams who take the ankles off ya.

It's not that I refuse to enter them they are just not very pleasant. The air is bad, it's hot, crowded and on Sundays they are full of sad people who think shopping is a family day out.

The noise. Everyone needs to shut up.

Full of knackers wearing luminous tops and orange skin

Or posh twots, orange skin optional.

And I'm the only normal one I feel.

Iseedeadpixels wrote: »

Slow walkers! Get the fook out of my way.

Indeed! I don't got to shopping centres much so I'm more likely to experience this in supermarkets.

But too many people, and not having enough reason to go to shopping centres is why I don't go to them more often.

LordSutch wrote: »

I know people who will avoid the likes of Dundrum shopping centre due to the sheer volume of people & cars "its just too busy" ... too many people.

I'd agree with that, also either you go there a lot and know where everything is or its a pain in the ass if you only go there twice a year. Prefer the layout of smaller centres like carrickmines where its in and out

Shopping and Other People.

GBX wrote: »

What annoys me about them is the ignorant people pushing trolleys or prams who take the ankles off ya.

Try being the one pushing the pram. People see you coming, but won't budge over one iota to let you pass. It's no wonder I'm like Ben Hur ploughing through.

NIMAN wrote: »

Main thing has to be bored children.

Sad to see young kids in them for hours. Some parents seem to think kids like walking around shopping centres.

Try taking them to the park instead, they don't want to go shopping.

I liked shopping centers when I was a kid. Most of them had shops my own town didn't have like game shops and large bookstores.

Shopping centres all with identical shops in a slightly different order.

Gap Next Dorothy Perkins River Island
Next Gap River Island Dorothy Perkins
Gap Eason's Claire's Dorothy Perkins

and of course :

Three Vodafone Carphone Warehouse

'Soulless'

WTF

I don't need my shopping centres to have pretentious soul. I need them to have jumpers and jeans and custard doughnuts.

I like shopping centers but I'd generally visit at off peak times. I much prefer them than city centers. I like the fact that you don't get wet, your near the car(so you can drop your bags back to the car), parking is generally free, I generally feel safer in shopping centers.

I'd only go on a weekday morning, never at the weekend.

How on earth was Dundrum town center ever allowed to be built? The traffic around the area on the weekend's is crazy, and hardly a bus even goes near the place.

From a societal point of view I think they are fascinating. They were the harbingers of consumerism at your fingertips and defined the landscape of modern suburbia. If you didn't have one you became unimportant pretty fast. Back in the day they were also social hubs in an age that preceded the internet and smartphones. Everything you wanted in one place. Well that was the dream anyway. In terms of design, it is no mistake that you struggled to find the way out, this was intentional. A lot of them have very little natural light and can make the person feel like they are stuck on a conveyor belt of shops with the hope you spend your afternoon drifting aimlessly from one shop to the next.

There's something so resolutely fascinating about a shopping centre that has lost its place in time and stands out as a ghost shell of days gone by. Some of them are pure relics already, examples being Dun Laoghaire Shopping Centre and what I called 'The 90s' in Crumlin, just off Sundrive Rd.

I detest shopping with every fiber of my being