Flickr photo of Sawgrass Mills entry by Daniel + Carla
I don’t understand why tourists automatically go to shopping centers, like Sawgrass Mills in South Florida. I guess that’s because I’m not one of those people who considers shopping to be a fun activity. I just don’t get it — why in the world, upon arriving in a new, unfamiliar, locale, would automatically go for shopping? LOL, aren’t I spending enough going on vacation anyway?
Flickr photo of the Sawgrass Mills Mall map by Lumberg
Anyway, Sawgrass Mills is gargantuan. The mall itself is split up in avenues, and for good reason — each avenue is anchored with a big, outlet version of a department store — think Super Target, gigantic Burlington Coat Factory, JC Penney outlet — and within each avenue are smaller stores like an Aerosoles outlet (where I would have gone, but Trinity was not going to let that happen), a Coach outlet (what a zoo), a Crate and Barrel outlet and a Neiman Marcus outlet (outlet? riiiiight). After wandering around for a while, my feet, shod in flip flops, were aching. We did have to purchase some sweaters, seeing as how Florida’s weather turned rainy and windy and cold that day, but did we find any deals at the Gap outlet, the JC Penney outlet, the Marshalls outlet or the TJ Maxx outlet? Nope. We found sweaters for about $16 each at Burlington Coat Factory.
Bottom line? Skip the high gas prices and don’t go to any outlet. I used to go to the old-school Guess outlet at the Cooper Building in downtown L.A., where you had to pick through the discolored, torn, ripped or otherwise unperfect clothes that were rejected for the regular stores. Nowadays, you don’t see that at outlet stores — they look the same as a regular store. So if you really want to save some cash on new clothes — shop at the Ross, Marshalls, Burlington or TJ Maxx in your neighborhood — you’ll save money on the clothes and the gas.
SAWGRASS MILLS MALL IS WITHOUT A DOUBT THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MALL IN THE WORLD AND I LOVE THOSE MALLRATS IN THE MALL THAY ARE SO CUTE ESPECIALLY THIS ONE WITH BLACK SHORT HAIR AWWWW I THINK SHE IS ADORABLE! TAKE CARE OF SAWGRASSES MALLRATS THEY NEED YOU BELIEVE IT OR NOT
Darleene, you are wondering why tourist go to the Sawgrass in FL. For example, I live in Argentina, where the prices are higher than USA, a Ralph Lauren Polo Shirt costs in Argentina USD 85, while in Sawgrass costs around USD 39.90
Every time that I visit Miami, I go to Sawgrass, Ross, Burlington Coat Factory, etc, because if I want to spend the money that I spend in Sawgrass but in Argentina, I am going to buy less than in the USA ( too much less ). If you can advice me for a store better than Sawgrass in Miami ( better prices, quility, etc ), I´ll aprecciate that. Thanks !
Sawgrass Mills is Without a Doubt The Awesomest Mall Ever(:
i Loveeee it. :)
its Huuggggee And Has The BEST Stores (x
me gustar
I grew up at saw grass mills i was a mall rat there from age 15-21 lol. We sat around the oasis the outside part of the mall smoking cigs and bumming money from open to close. Thanks to the mall security and the a.t.f. i stopped hanging out and moved on.
i used to agree with you about sawgrass. i grew up down the street from there and was a mall rat myself all through adolescence. but i recently started working at a saks outlet, which is in sawgrass mall (i worked at one in orlando) and i asked a lot of customers about the appeal of these malls and they said exactly what people on here said… that prices in general where marginally cheaper in their country. and after trolling some stores, i realized that some stores really do have outlet prices. like the gap usually has 30-50% off almost everything in the stores, and so does saks. but other stores, like victoria’s secret and forever 21 are pretty much the same. but either way… prices are much cheaper than in other countries soooo yeah.