{"id":432106,"date":"2025-12-08T00:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T00:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/432106\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T00:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T00:25:12","slug":"in-person-shopping-making-comeback-as-mall-traffic-picks-up-for-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/432106\/","title":{"rendered":"In-person shopping making comeback as mall traffic picks up for holiday season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\"><strong>TEMPE, Ariz.<\/strong> &#8211; Online shopping has made it very easy to buy almost anything with the click of a button, but there\u2019s a good amount of people who still choose to shop in person, and the packed parking lot at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Arizona+Mills\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x1dc752fa1319b15d?sa=X&amp;ved=1t:2428&amp;ictx=111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>Arizona Mills Mall<\/strong><\/a> proves that.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">There\u2019s just something about heading to the mall during the holidays with a good old-fashioned gift list.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">By the numbers:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">At the start of December, the National Retail Federation (NRF) released their numbers about the record spending amount during Thanksgiving weekend.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Shopping online still seems to take first place, with 134.9 million shoppers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">But in-store shopping was up by 3% from last year, with a total of 129.5 million people hitting the stores. So it\u2019s clear there are still plenty of people making the trek to the mall.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">Local perspective:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Shoppers shared their reasons for choosing brick-and-mortar stores over e-commerce.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">&#8220;It&#8217;s personal and I like to support local versus shopping online\u2014because you don&#8217;t know where that&#8217;s coming from,&#8221; one shopper said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">&#8220;It&#8217;s just better to just have the stuff on hand than waiting for it in the mail just to see if it fits at all,&#8221; another shopper said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">&#8220;It\u2019s better to come in person so we can take the stuff home the same day and we\u2019ve got the right sizes,&#8221; said a third shopper.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">While there are advantages to online shopping too, many people enjoy the in-person experience, getting into the holiday spirit alongside other shoppers.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Arizona+Mills\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x1dc752fa1319b15d?sa=X&amp;ved=1t:2428&amp;ictx=111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>Map of Arizona Mills Mall in Tempe.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> This information was gathered from the National Retail Federation and shoppers at Arizona Mills Mall on Dec. 7.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/us\/az\/maricopa-county\/tempe\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tempe<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/holidays\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Holidays<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEMPE, Ariz. &#8211; Online shopping has made it very easy to buy almost anything with the click of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":432107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,7709,1588,50,1589,26228,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-432106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-holidays","12":"tag-maricopa-county","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-phoenix","15":"tag-tempe","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}