In the future of space...

In the future of space, technology on planets has long since reached the point where the local branch of space amazon can just deliver anything you want via drones within a few minutes, so there's no reason to go out shopping. Yet for story purposes you require malls and stores and such. How do you justify this?

You go to the mall to pick up some hot sluts

Isn't it just a bitch when you order the wrong size and you have to go through the massive hassle of sending it back?

Stores will be around simply because people like to try things on before they buy them. Also some people just like going to malls (shoppaholics).

You go out to some place other than stores, such as movie theaters or restaurants. Its your own fault for establishing space amazon as a thing.

Some people really enjoy the experience of windows shopping.

>In the future, technology on earth has long since reached teh point where the local branch of earth amazon can justg deliver anything to your home in hours, so there's no reason to go out shopping

Bruh, people will always keep phsyically shopping. Some old people like having a chat with the baker, I personally like being outdoors for a while and women will always enjoy the sensation of spending a man's money on useless shit far away form his watchful "male gaze" of oppression. Malls ain't going anywhere for a long time.

Future malls would have;
> workshops and fabricator centers
> conference / social spaces
> dance clubs
> theaters
> cafes, bars, restaurants
> game courts
> bordellos / fuckspaces

>Windows Shopping
Just don't get Windows 8 unless they're paying you to use it

>and women will always enjoy the sensation of spending a man's money on useless shit far away form his watchful "male gaze" of oppression

nice dude, hats off to you

What else would future malls have?

>technology on planets has long since reached the point where the local branch of space amazon
I stopped reading there, but are space amazons all in some sort of galactic sorority or something? Because it kind of makes sense that they're all essentially just mean sorority girls.

Why wouldn't you want to physically look things over, pick them up and and compare them? I think it's mostly a question of easy access. You have to drive halfway across town to a number of different stores to get everything you want, and then it's more expensive because you're having to pay for the rental and maintenance of the stores, themselves. But if those weren't concerns, or were lesser concerns, then why not shop at a store (at least when buying new stuff and not just replenishing the supply of whatever you always get)? So if you have stores that are very nearby in terms of travel time and which have wide access to goods (maybe they have vast underground warehouses and anything you're interested is shot up a tube to you or something... or it's just really quick and easy to get to other stores) and no significant markup, then I think they would be preferable.

"Try before you buy" shopping.

At that point, all the companies would have access to near instant delivery and would probably not really worry about paying for a simple store front.

I can see them having 'generics' and material samples around. Being able to feel the material for your sleeping pants is important, the fabricators will handle adding a sports team logo or the like. Even computer parts would be the same, with a store having some keyboards and mice around, and then you can just get a more custom fitted one delivered

The current popularity of internet shopping is actually an overcompensation due to novelty. You see it all the time with internet based models. Eventually it'll reach an equillibrium where people that know what they want and ot's something that doesn't need to be used immediately go to the web and everybody else goes shopping.

You know those old drive-in diners with the roller skating carhops? It's just like that. All your packages will be delivered by amazonian women on jet-propelled skates.

Bumping this question. What stores will you find in a future space mall?

If we're starting with the presumption that the future is some kind of post-scarcity instant-gratification economy, stores might not really be a thing. If there's a commodity you need, you fabricate it, replicate it, or a robot drops it off 20 seconds later.

If the shopping district has any function at all, it's to see the things that you don't know you need. They might have something in the way of an expo center, where the people who invent new products set up demonstrations, or fashion shows, or holographic infomercials. But mostly the reason to go to a Space Mall is to interact with people, not because you need to have a thing.

Space-Time Warner is fucking the galactinet over yet again and there are outages in your area for the next seven centuries.

In Xenosaga they have a universal system called the UMN which essentially taps into an extra-dimensional space that acts as their internet, faster then light transportation and the ability to transport inanimate objects/dead objects nearly anywhere you can connect to it. Sending people through will, at best, instantly kill the unfortunate person and destroy their soul at worst. Surviving can give you weird powers and ability to preceive God or whatever though.

Yeah, sure. If you want everyone and their grandma to know what you just bought.

Why the fuck are people posting quests here again

Yeah, but if you go to the spacemall where they have their local amazon delivery hub/manufacturing center, you can save on the cost of delivery.

As well as meet people, catch a vid, and have lunch. Malls popped up as a social place evolving from the village green or mainstreet of a small town that had no direct corollary in major cities.

I don't think they'll go away, but they might be superceded by a VR equivalent for most folks, and you'll only see physical malls around spaceports or on planets/colonies without a great deal of infrastructure.

I think you're in the wrong thread.