According to Forbes, Houston is the #1 shopping city in America (best, better)
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Move over New York. When it comes to shopping, everything’s bigger in Texas. Forbes’ first-ever ranking of the best U.S. cities for shopping takes a look at the real numbers behind what makes retail sparkle in the 25 biggest cities in America. One look at the top 10 shows that NYC, long thought to be the best city for style, sophistication and putting your pocketbook to work, is nowhere to be found.
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Houston is a great shopping city, take it from someone who spends hours out of the week at some of the shops there. But it's not number one, that would be New York City.
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Houston is a great shopping city, take it from someone who spends hours out of the week at some of the shops there. But it's not number one, that would be New York City.
This thread will get hostile. LOL, shopping & fashion threads always do. And they get filled up with ghetto rap videos, and sloppy chopped up American slang, and ahhh comparing accents. Yeah this thread sure has a bright future!
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Yeah, NYC is really a great city for shopping, I'd love to buy something there ^^
I didn't imagine NYC could be surpassed ! Houston and Dallas are impressive
Its not that surprising actually. The ranking is based around having malls and most of NYC malls are relegated to New jersey suburbs. If you look closely NYC ranks #22 behind cities like Charlotte and Baltimore, which would not be that surprising if you ever visited NY. We also have no Wal-Marts (I would not be surprised if majority of native Nyers have never even been to a walmart!), although some other big box stores like Kmart started to make inroads into the city... which sucks to be honest. I would prefer if NYC implemented a ban on building malls (we only have like 5 malls left in the city.. they can stay) and stayed with small family owned shops and local brands like Macys, Tiffany's, Saks, etc... plus luxury foreign brands. I don't want NYC to turn into just another generic everywhereville, US.
This list's methodology makes little sense. A sample quote:
"Like New York, Boston is also penalized for its high prices and low number of malls–showing that shopping in cities might not be all it’s cracked up to be."
Apparently they used the number of shopping centers to rank how good a city is for shopping. Why would New York or any other big city with a decent center have lots of malls? Most of Manhattan is full of stores specializing in just about anything (well except for stores selling things that don't make sense in a city, like lawnmowers?), especially Midtown Manhattan.
Malls are more designed for suburbs. I'm a bit puzzled why they would count the number of malls in a city. New York gets a lot suburbanites who visit for to shop for the greater selection and variety, even if they have a big mall nearby in their suburb. For example, the 7 story Macy's in NYC is larger than any Macy's in a mall and the same is probably true for other stores.
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