Mandurah has a shopping centre that is 16 acres in size, with 155 specialty stores.
Amazing
There’s one in our village,supermaket,bottle shop,chemist,optician,health shop,cafe.
We haven’t been in since covid so they may not all be there now.
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I live near a huge shopping center. When I moved here, it was the major draw to the area for many. I thought I’d be there a lot. Haven’t been there in a long time. Too many people.
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The Mandurah one I need a map to find my way around. Crazy big.
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I avoid the shopping mall at Shellharbour for the same reason it is just too big, I get lost there
My local mall is much smaller only about 60 shops, a couple of supermarkets and a Big W, all the rest are small speciality shops. I can cope with that.
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We’ve got lots of smaller, rather than one big
The mall in the centre town on the high street is quite big for around here, about 40 shops and surrounded by lots of other shops, pubs and cafes
But there’s an awful lot of closed and empty units, the big M&S closed, too many phone shops and one pawn broker!
And there are several shopping malls out of the centre of town with B&Q, M&S Food, Aldi, Wickes, Dunelm etc
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Our local mall is probably around a modest 50 spaces, the majority of them are closed and boarded up, with only a handful still open.
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I rarely shop at any of the stores. Groceries are delivered to our door. We do pretty much everything else on line.
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Approx 90 units and other retailers in the surrounding streets.
Same old same old really. Too many coffee outlets, places to get your nails done or eyebrows woven.
It’d be nice to see some quality specialist independent shops but I guess I’m living in the past.
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That must be a sad sight.
The tenants who are still there would be paying inflated rents. Any chance the whole complex could close?
It’s been talked about for years, but there doesn’t seem to be anything being done to stop it or to encourage existing units to stay open. Sadly, this is not a unique situation.
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We have one small street with shops either side.
Rather intimate shopping where everyone knows everyone else?
Mostly yes, Thurso is a very small town, up on the North Coast of Scotland. Wild, and right on the edge. 
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We have plenty the biggest ones having 146, 139, 200 shops.
I digression if I may. Thurso is a bit remote so what do you do there? That said, I have cousins in North Uist. and I’m not sure what they do for a living.
My partner is a farmer, we live a few miles along the coast from Thurso.
Most of the people either work in the fishing industry or along at Dounreay.
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I was a farmer’s boy on the Braes of Angus. Arable and hill farming. Like this:
Not exactly a shopping centre.
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My main shopping area consists of what is known locally as The Precinct. This is all pedestrianised and consists of London road, The High Street and the Edwardian Arcade leading through to the sea front and promenade + pier.
The large supermarkets are about a mile out of town where Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Aldi and Lidl not forgetting Halfords can be found. Iceland and Morrisons are in the town centre and therefore a bit of a pain to undertake a large shopping expedition in.
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