I do not know if Singapore can be referred as a shopping haven cause from my perspective, there isn't much to "shop". In this case, I am not saying that there aren't enough products for consumers to shop for but there isn't shopping centres that Singaporeans can explore with anticipation and surprises anymore as the brandnames just duplicate itself almost everywhere.
As the shopping centres islandwide had slowly been bought over by bigger companies and undergo revamping, they indeed changed from their old rundown outlook to become newer and more spacious so as to expand retail spaces. But at the very same time, they've changed to become more alike to the other shopping centres as well.
Talking about the singapore shopping experience, it has become more of a need to buy then go out to a particular shopping to get it lifestyle. The only change consumers can expect is the occasionally change of retailers and seasonal change of products that adds to the vibrancy and colour to the shopping centre.
So, how much can shopping centre change?
Even though its so, I am still eager to shop in the new upcoming vivocity after its done. As they are said to have many brandnames thats not common in Singapore. Something different finally. It will no longer be the usual watsons, guardians, giodarno, bosini, mango i hope..
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Shopping Centre's here are homogeneous because they exist more for functional purposes than to act as a lifestyle choice..
we go to our heartland malls (can you even consider them shopping centres??) because they are near and they've got stuff which you NEED. we flock to orchard to raid the fashion boutiques because they had the GSS back then... it was never abt the mall itself, it's just when we wanted to get something from inside, quite honestly, i doubt we can tell the malls apart from inside..
i recognise malls in town by their food rather than their own identity.. like the Heeren is the Marche place, (but now, i think i've gotta adjust to call it the Village place) Suntec is the Kuishin-bo & rice-table place, ngee-ann city has loads of crystal jades and so on.. but what is distinct abt their fashion brands, their outlook, their speciality stores, I don't really know...
i really hope they start creating malls with character like the 2 cathay cineplexes.. Cineleisure Orchard & the *new* Cathay Cineplex, and marina square, they've kinda bucked the trend to become ermm more trendy? let's hope this glutton square really lives up to its food theme and vivocity lives up to it's name as a shopping centre by the bay..
there's still hope for malls yet
Ya.. I do agree with your point. Shopping centres are more for functional purposes for consumers to get their stuffs and spend. But what about times whereby you don't just want to buy certain things and feel more of like walking around. And all this shopping centres are all the same.. Thats superb boring.
But definitely, there's hope!! I guess what draws me towards this new shopping centre, vivocity the most is its new architectural design. Its modern, wide usage of glass panels allowing natural lighting into the compound. Pretty cool design. Indeed will give consumers a very different shopping experience. What's more I heard its 20% larger than suntec. Haha.. Its opening in October!!!
our shopping malls esp our heartland malls are like our HBD flats: Homogeneous to the point of death.
I was pretty shocked to go the Malaysia and find our themed malls like i-forgot-their-names but there's one with a river running through it and you can take a boat out to the LAKE ATTACHED to the mall. How do u top that? Try a theme park in a shopping mall.
Shopping malls are just to bland here. When hereen works, level one pops up, followed by the edge and noe there icon...
Its kinda like the bubble tea thing. Good things tend to get copied around too fast and eventuall, the bubble may just burst.
Change is as always good. And is it me or does some people fin ventilation a problem in malls too?
Crowded malls thronging with shopaholics can be a headache inducing experience. And I've read somewhere that the air quality in malls can actually be 10 time worse than outside. TEN TIMES! Wow.
basically a shopping centre is a place where there are many shops. so i guess, most in singapore so fulfil that function.
of course people always want more, bringing in the idea of 'lifestyle' malls in which more is expected out of the shopping experience. to the extreme, a fantasy land where you can find almost everything and you can 'shop till you drop'. however in some way its not really realistic. shopping centres still have their function as a place for people to buy stuff. if theres a wide variety of goods but no demand for them, then whats the point.
just like what we learn n econs, if there's no demand how can there be a supply. in the same way, the shops that we find around us exist because theres a demand.
also do we give new brands a chance? well with those well-establised brands from overseas aside, there are many 'smaller' brands which have come and gone.
We need change the concept of shopping malls. In Dubai, there is a shopping centre that is also a museum.
At one end, you start with the interior architecture and display of all things old Spain, then as you progressed within the mall, the interior moves geographically to Tunisia, then Egypt, then Syria...till you reach China.
This is one way where we can attract people to shopping and give them a bit of culture and education too! Kool?
michael
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