Mall stores
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Order by the year each chain's first store opened. Drag or tap it onto the line
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Mall stores
Order by the year each chain's first store opened. You place all 41 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
41
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release years and dates
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How to play the mall stores timeline game
Every card is a chain you could find at the mall: department store anchors, teen clothing shops, music and book stores, gadget showrooms and food court favorites. A short line under each name tells you what it sold, and you put them in order by the year the chain's first store opened. One store starts on the line with its year showing. Choose a gap for each new card. Right, and its year lights up; wrong, and the store still takes its true position, but you lose one of three lives.
Several of the big anchors ran catalogs or other businesses for years before opening a shop, so a famous old name may have a later first store than you expect. Teen fashion brands come in quick waves, often spun off from each other, and the food court cards are older than the malls they ended up in. Think about what kind of shopper each store was chasing.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 41 cards you might be dealt, with 13 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Abercrombie & Fitch Clothing, first an outdoor outfitter
- Nordstrom Department store, began with shoes
- JCPenney Department store
- Zales Jewelry
- Sears Department store
- Orange Julius Frothy orange drinks
- Dillard's Department store
- H&M Fast fashion
- Pottery Barn Home furnishings
- Sbarro Pizza by the slice
- Spencer's Gag gifts and novelties
- B. Dalton Books
- Gap Jeans and casual clothing
- Urban Outfitters Clothing and home goods
- Sunglass Hut Sunglasses
- Foot Locker Sneakers
- Victoria's Secret Lingerie
- American Eagle Outfitters Jeans and casual clothing
- Banana Republic Clothing, first safari wear
- Express Women's clothing
- Limited Too Clothes for tween girls
- Disney Store Disney toys and merchandise
- Auntie Anne's Soft pretzels
- Hot Topic Band tees and pop culture merch
- Ulta Beauty Makeup and salon
- Old Navy Budget clothing
- Hollister Surf-style clothing
- Apple Store Macs, iPods and iPhones
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