Talk:Strip mall

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[edit] Retail park

In the Shopping mall article discussion, it was suggested that the Retail park article be merged with this one. Comments? --Adavidb 17:57, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, you know what they say. If it smells like a peasant, dresses like a peasant, and is on fire like a peasant... SchuminWeb (Talk) 00:33, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

I think a Retail Park needs a page of it's own... it's an extremely British thing, the retail park, and maerging it into such an American article probably wouldn't work. To properly explain each, the article would have to yo-yo between English terms and American, and become quite a mess, I think.—Preceding unsigned comment added by NeilSenna (talk • contribs) 01:12, April 22, 2007 (UTC)

Agreed. They are different beasts.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.41.126.62 (talk • contribs) 07:32, May 21, 2007 (UTC)

Agreed. A Retail Park is similar to, but not the same as, the Power Centres mentioned in the Strip Mall article. If Retail park must be merged, it would be more natural to merge into the Power centre article. A Retail park bears little resemblance to the common smaller strip mall, and so combining them is just likely to cause confusion. --12.178.107.237 03:50, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

There are retail parks in the U.S., too, in fact, that's where they were invented, but they are different from strip malls, so to merge them would be ridiculous. -Tattylicious 04:23, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Oh my God, merge already. Why do people want a bunch of individual scrappy articles for virtually identical topics? Nobody but an article-sitting pedant would decry the inclusion of 'retail park' as a subsection on the Strip Mall article. Over-categorisation of topics already undermines wikipedia quite enough.

If the Retail Park article was longer, and deserved to be called an article (which it barely does, honestly) there might be a case for setting it apart, but as it stands I think we ought to put petty patriotism aside and merge.

And while we're at it, I'd like to suggest that whoever suggested merging to the Power Centre article is halfway right. In fact, I'd bundle that together with the Strip Mall article as well, and convert what are currently unecessary article-level divisions into basic sectional divisions; this makes information-retreival far easier and allows an easier comparison between very similar retail concepts. Nobody needs three articles where one with three sections would do a much better job. Gunstar hero 13:31, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Banks and coffee houses in grocery stores

The article already indicates that recent malls have pharmacies inside the stores, so this is no less relevant than that statement, which the editor did not delete. --Zeamays (talk) 19:25, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

I'm not saying it's not notable - I'm just saying that this is not necessarily the place for it. Adding the information to grocery store or supermarket makes far more sense than adding it here, which is about the plazas themselves, and not about individual units in the plazas. The passage you refer to makes sense, since it refers to formerly separate tenants, now one tenant. The problem with the passage I've removed is that it doesn't make a connection to the makeup of strip malls, thus unless such a connection is made to strip malls, this is a trend better described in the other articles I mentioned. SchuminWeb (Talk) 19:49, 26 December 2007 (UTC)