Mall... Mall... Everywhere!!!

An American friend commented that the Filipinos really know how to do malls. Proof is how at almost every major intersection in the city, you will find a mall. The latest to join the bandwagon is the huge (and I mean HUGE!) SM Mall of Asia, dubbed the biggest in Asia, and aptly so!

In the business districts of Makati and Ortigas, contemporary malls of all shapes and sizes abound. Along the stretch of Gen. Aguinaldo Highway on the way to Tagaytay, each Cavite town you pass has one. Dasmariñas even has two right across each other.

My home city, Las Piñas, has three malls and three department/warehouse shops along the main road from Zapote going to Alabang, where, there are three big malls as well! This makes the already widened road needy of further widening. The road obviously cannot handle the traffic in the area anymore specially during weekends when almost everybody is in the malls.

This is amazing.. considering people are complaining about a sagging Philippine economy. How can you say the Filipinos don’t have money when they are at the mall every chance they get? Some will philosophize that the people we see at the malls do not really shop but just go walking around as a form of escape from the heavy traffic and humidity outdoors. But come to think about it, if this were true, and the Filipinos really didn’t have the purchasing power, then how come these malls survive and continue to abound??? Makes you wonder, huh? See yah at the mall!!!

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