Metro 580 — Attraction in Pleasanton

It's certainly bigger than the others in the area. It's also MUCH cleaner. They have a great selection for Juniors & Women as well as Baby. Mens & Boys are alright, but did notice in Mens they have a pretty decent selection of clothing for larger men (3X, 4X & up). But the girls section was the worst! It was super hard to find (all the way in the back left corner of the store) & once I found it, the clothes looked to be geared towards girls up to the age of 7... MAYBE 8. The next available choice would have to be Juniors, which is NOT appropriate for a 4th/5th grader. They have a larger shoe section as well as Grocery & Health & Beauty. They also had plenty of registers open so there was...

Walmart here is great, but otherwise it is a weird ghost town. Half of the big box stores sit empty, none of the outlets on the buildings work (if no business is even present do you really care about the homeless using trivial amounts of electricity to charge their phones so they are safe while outdoors at night?) and that parking lot is the land of lakes whenever it rains, deep lakes at that. I get that it was built when boomers were all nuts for shopping in mammoth sized department stores, but the property owners are not even trying to adapt to changing times, which makes it a weird mausoleum to the days of capitalism before Amazon that is kind of creepy even if that...

this shopping center definitely has desired retailers, but the property is massive and the ratio of parking stalls to necessary parking stalls feels like 3 to 1. this deprives the whole area of any sense of community or identity, and as a shopper, one feels less like a valued consumer than a random number. Pacific Commons in Fremont is a better example of how to manage this kind of acreage. Danville and walnut creek do anything even better job. for the traffic one has to endure to get into the parking lot, it's almost...