Yes.
There are some retailers that put a lot of money into making the experience of shopping enjoyable and more pleasant (Nike, Lulu Lemon, Apple, etc.) and their storefronts thrive.
Walmart, the store you pictured, thrives because they sell cheap.
Devi@kbin.social 1 year ago
I'm not in the US but what makes you feel this is run down?
STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The ceiling looks incomplete with no wall and the color scheme is drab and dreary.
akilou@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
For large chains in the suburbs this is totally normal. They’re basically warehouses in a sea of parking lots filled with shelves and racks. Sometimes there’s carpeted areas in between the tile walkways or displays that go up high enough that it feels enclosed. For smaller or more urban stores, you don’t see this kind of construction.
Mamertine@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You’re in a Walmart.
They claim to be cheaper so they can have that drabby distopian look.
In the good parts of town, they look nicer. In the poor parts of town they’re legit worse than that.
Fwiw, I’ll pay the extra dollar per shopping cart for the superior look of a target. Target is generally cleaner and crisper looking. As always there are exceptions to that rule.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The “unfinished” ceilings are common in warehouse stores. It is largely a feature of practicality. Since electrical, water and ventilation typical run overhead and needs to be serviced occasionally, putting drop ceiling tiles up would make them difficult to work with, particularly when you need a scissor lift (rather than a ladder) to reach the utility lines. But it also has some benefits like higher lighting fixtures which means less direct/more ambient lighting, fewer places for pests to roam in the building or dust to build up, etc. It may just be that I’m used to it, but it doesn’t bother me as an aesthetic. Do ceiling is more common in smaller stores.
Not sure what you mean by the drab colors. The floor looks like it could be whiter and probably needs a polish, but the blues look nice enough to me. There’s not much to decorate though as most of the story is wide open with very few surfaces that aren’t covered in products for sale.
FoundTheVegan@kbin.social 1 year ago
Oh yeah, this is super standard. Honestly I had to scroll down to find what was even notable to you about this picture. I live in a major city and basically every store I go in to looks identical to this.
BrainisfineIthink@lemmy.one 1 year ago
That’s not run down, that’s a warehouse. Is it falling apart? Is the flooring worn? Are the walls cracking? Ceilings leaking? That’s what run down means, not whatever your weird complaint is about the decor and color scheme is.
xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
the open ceiling is brutalist design… pretty sure this is a WalMart and they all look like that….
it’s just a lot easier to maintain, and nobody looks at the ceiling
isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is totally normal for Walmart to look like. It’s basically a warehouse with extra steps.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ceiling design is intentional, it’s cheap and it maintains temperature much better than a drop ceiling or whatever else you’d want up there.
Walmart normally has skylights too to let in natural light but I can’t see any in the pic. That looks like a poorly maintained Walmart.
Deceptichum@kbin.social 1 year ago
Can you show us what you think they should look like?
Coz I’ve seen Americans, Australians, and Europeans call this normal looking. So I’d love to see what you think isn’t.
Sabata11792@kbin.social 1 year ago
That's just a default Walmart, unironically.
Iamdanno@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
That ceiling is supposed to be that way. The insulation is on top of the roof deck, and the lack of a suspended ceiling gives it a more open feel. That’s why they painted all of the roof structure white (it also allows them to use less power for lighting). Walmart has a lot of problems, but store design isn’t one (although retail layout is, IMO).
Devi@kbin.social 1 year ago
We have a few of these warehouse type shops in the UK, Costco, Matalan, that sort of thing, it's not styled like a high street shop would be.
Uranium3006@kbin.social 1 year ago
that's pretty common for big box stores. they're put up cheaply and the buildings are only rated to last 15 years in some cases.
mp3@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
It’s a Wal-Mart so yeah, that’s normal.
higgsone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This would be not even run down in Germany. Even the worst store here looks better than this.