Quote Originally Posted by downtownguy View Post
You don't have to walk too far to find stores downtown and in midtown. No, you won't find Tiffany's, Saks or Nordstrom, but you will find mostly independent retailers offering a variety of goods that you would never see at Somerset. Maybe you meant to say the stores in the city don't cater to your particular taste? Every hotel, museum and casino has a gift shop with unique items, and midtown has several unique stores on Canfield, Cass and in the Park Shelton. Downtown has shops around the Broadway Randolph intersection, the Ren Cen and you can find some cool gifts in Eastern Market. Even though it's not strictly downtown, one year I did all my Christmas shopping at Pewabic. So, forgive me if I'm also being effing stuck up, but I tend to agree with DetroitPole about malls. I've been to Northland more recently than I've been to Somerset. And I'm not the type to notice or care about window dressing. A mall is a mall is a mall to me.
I could not disagree with you more. The shops downtown are not suitable for anyone outside of the very trendy, funky, hip urban type of customer. There is not a shop downtown or midtown that a person coud buy a decent pair of non-trendy/funky/urban jeans. God forbid if a person whether local or tourist are in need for a decent pair of undergarments. Tell me where can I buy a decent camera downtown? Where is a place that sell bath, bed, or kitchen accessories downtown. Shopping downtown or midtown is a joke. Sure, we don't have Neiman Marcus or Macy's but Detroit doesn't have shops that would satisy the basic needs of shoppers. The politicians, whether Mayor or council, are so ass-backwards when it comes to attracting shops in shoppers to downtown/midtown Detroit. Invest in extra police to patrol downtown and midtown instead of using that money to pay meter maids overtime just to make chump change from the meters causing potential shoppers not to want to shop at the few shops that you have in the area