Rhode Island Mall

Place is absolute crap! Sears is so 1990’s anyways, but that Walmart is the worst I have been in all of my 20 years of living. First off, they don’t have any baskets, only carts which is annoying when your trying to pick up little things. The cashiers are always so grumpy and miserable, and when I asked for a price check she simply said «I don’t wanna have to call on the walkie» like okay lady I work at the Warwick Mall and I go out of my way for customers ALL THE TIME. That’s the right thing to do when your in retail. I’d say the only jem in this place is Kohl’s, because its the most modern store there. But seriously, don’t waste your time drive to Target on Bald Hill and skip out on this Retail DISASTER.

This is a different type of review, it is a side by side comparison of RI Mall, and its main competitor the Providence Place Mall.
I hate going to malls in general, maybe it’s because I hate lines, and making decisions. So I was very excited when I first learned about the Rhode Island Mall. I am not originally from Rhode Island so when I first moved here, I googled the different malls, and I saw the Providence Place Mall, and the Rhode Island Mall. I figured the Rhode Island mall is named after the friggen state, it has to be better than a mall named after a City. Well my friends, I couldn’t have been more right.
PARKING
Providence Place: Impossible to find a place to park, and when you do you will have trouble finding your car when you’re done shopping. Oh, did I mention you have to pay to park, and you have to use an automated machine which requires you have a PHD from MIT.
Rhode Island Mall: Plenty of outdoor and free parking!
STORES:
Providence Place: Full of trendy overpriced garbage that you do not need. Over 100 stores, too many choices.
Rhode Island Mall: As of writing this I believe there are 4 stores. If you have ever read the book Brave New World which is about a perfect Utopian society, they had one mall which had exactly 4 stores. I believe they have a payless shoes, and a dollar store .
FOOD COURT
Providence Place: Huge variety to choose from (sort of a bad thing). Long lines, and you’re lucky if you find a dirty table to sit at.
Rhode Island Mall: Its BYOF (bring your own food) which is a good thing, for one it costs less, so you can pass on the savings and buy more at the dollar store, or maybe a nice new pair of sneakers from payless (second pair is half off too). If you forget to bring your own food sometimes the dollar store has Cheetos that haven’t gone completely stale yet.

Bring out
your dead
Went back to this mall today and if anything it is even more morose and quiet. It literally reeks of death. Only three stores on the upper level are still open and I didn’t see any open on the bottom, just the crummy DMV office. One of the anchor stores, Kohl’s, has a solid wall separating it from the mall. Like it doesn’t want to be associated with it.
The real eerie thing is that everything works. The lights are all on, the fountains are running and the escalators move. As much as I love to go up and down on escalators, these are no fun because there are no people to watch. Just a few strange looking folks walking round and round for exercise with zombie looks on their faces. This mall is one of the creepiest places around. It has to be only a matter of time before someone finally pulls the plug.
Bring out
your dead

Once upon a time, there was once a food court many years ago. and then it went away. There was a CD/​DVD store. and then it went away. There was once a Dollar Tree store that opened about ten or eleven years ago, of which I was employed and given the task to help construct and open… and then it went away. Game Stop is gone, the Filene’s is gone, the little boutique shop by the elevator where I once bought my Jr. High graduation dress. is gone too.
I have an abundance of memories of this mall: of shopping with my grandparents, of trying to cheer up my little brother when they passed away at the arcade, of hanging out with friends, of breaking up with boys. Now other than three of four stores, literally, there is nothing left. The Walmart and the Kohl’s are standing reminders that some stores just can’t stand the test of time. Other than the need to go to Lenscrafters, there really is no point.

This place is something out of a zombie movie. The creepiest mall I’ve ever been in. There are about 5 stores open on the inside, while all of the other stores are boarded up, dusty, and deserted… then there is a Sears and WalMart on the ends.
Seems like it’d be a good place to work (not own a store though) if you feel like not doing any work and getting paid for it I guess.
Probably a really neat place to take pictures or, like I said, shoot a zombie flick.