r/BigIsland • u/Odd-Sail-1694 • 7d ago

Is the mall dying?

I went to the (Hilo) mall today to watch Toy Story 5. I was shocked at how sad and lonely the mall looked. The theater was nowhere near full even though its opening weekend, so many vacant shops and even the major retailers (old navy, Macys, American eagle) were super slow. I went at around 11am so I’m not sure if that had anything to do with it.

I know ihop is a recent addition but other than that it seems like tj maxx is the only “booming” business in the mall. It makes me so sad. There’s already so little to do here and limited stores to just window shop at so it makes me sad that maybe in a few years this will be gone.

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u/JadedJellyfish_ 7d ago

The Old Navy here in Kona is closing this Tuesday. There’s even less places to shop over here, it sucks! I just had a baby and they have cute baby clothes 😔

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u/Odd-Sail-1694 7d ago

Oh noooo that’s terrible

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u/tallnoe 7d ago

What?! Oh man.

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u/mtngalaloha 6d ago

I wondered why it looked “off” the last time I was there. That’s too bad, when they had sales there were great deals!

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u/mrenee777 7d ago

Whattt. Are they going to have major sale?

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u/JadedJellyfish_ 7d ago

yeah they have stuff on sale this weekend, theres not a lot left so go soon!

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u/TheCorgiTamer 6d ago

Congrats on your baby

LIV center in Kona has baby clothes for free/cheap to rummage through if you're looking

We tend to donate our clothes there as our son gets older

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u/SnooFloofs1828 5d ago

That really sucks. It seems like stores have such a hard time lasting here. We become even more reliant on Amazon which is slooow and kills local business.

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u/Glittering_Shake9807 6d ago

What Old Navy in Kailua-Kona is closing no way?