Dying Shopping Malls Film Analysis

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ASSIGNMENT 1
PARAPHRASE-REFERENCE
Kaushik Kalal
Student no- 300984320
Teacher-Marzena

“Dying shopping malls are wreaking havoc on suburban America” by Hayley Peterson
Original
Rolling Acres Mall in Akron, Ohio, opened in 1975 to great fanfare as the premier shopping destination for the surrounding community.
But customer traffic started to slow more than a decade ago, several department stores abandoned their leases, and the mall began to fail. It lost its last store tenant in 2013.
Paraphrased
Rolling Acres Mall in metropolis, Ohio, opened in 1975 to nice fanfare because the premier looking destination for the encircling community.
But client traffic began to slow quite a decade past, many department
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Made in 1978, Romero's movie is in part a satire on American consumerism, but the director couldn't have anticipated that, four decades on, the concrete retail playgrounds he satirized would turn into graveyards, albeit without zombies.
Across North America and the U.K., mall doors are closing, and main-street shops are being boarded up as online retailing takes a bigger and bigger piece of our weekly consumer spend.
J.C. Penney and Macy's have in total announced more than 200 store closings in 2017 and Toys "R" Us filed for protection from its creditors, while Sears gave warning in a series of announcements that 300 Kmart and Sears outlets would shut their doors. In Britain, 15 shops a day ceased trading in the first half of the year. Even retail giant Marks & Spencer is feeling wobbly at the knees; it recently announced that 53 outlets would close.
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this implies that systems should be able to properly determine the situation of every individual product across the business, whether or not that be in-store, within the warehouse or the distribution center.
Without this correct and time period visibility of stock in-store, retailers cannot consider correct identification and traceability of individual things. thus, on-line orders collected in-store can got to be picked and consummated at the warehouse level.

PART 2:
APA STYLE:
1.READING - “Dying shopping malls are wreaking havoc on suburban America” by Hayley Peterson”
PETERSON .H (2017, MARCH 05) Retrieved 2018 from http://www.businessinsider.com/dying-shopping-malls-are-wreaking-havoc-on-suburban-america-2017-2 2. READING - Mortised (2017, december18) still signs of life in retail signs despite the fall of zombie mall. Retrieved February 13, 2018 from https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-commentary/still-signs-of-life-in-retail-despite-the-dawn-of-the-zombie-mall/article37366443/ 3.READING – Mark Thomson. (2017 November 27) Retailers need to up their game on click-and-collect models” by Mark Thomson retrieved February 13, 2018 from

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