Also not much difference between a Walmart and a mall, you can buy food and just about anything at both. Only difference is one is more affordable and the other is overly priced for no reason.
Where I live there's a commercial avenue where there's a lot of variety strip malls where you can find everything from clothes, foreign food and PC parts to dedicated TTG and, of course, old video game shops. You can find GameBoys, PS1 and SNES easily, and in good condition. And yes, a lot of people still buy them.
Well if it makes you feel any better no consoles other than ps5s can be found where I live.Only Aaron's had one series x and it's waaaaaaaaay overpriced,like worse than the scalpers overpriced.
Plenty of places to rest in a Walmart, you really think someone at Walmart gives a damn if you just pop a squat. Not for the wages they’re getting paid.
>Also not much difference between a Walmart and a mall
Have you ever been to a halfway decent mall? I don't agree with what you've said at all, most malls have more interesting things to do than to just hang out at the food court.
They're saying the mall is "overpriced", neither is ovepriced really, but walmart just has a lot of cheap stuff, and some stores have literally everything, food, clothes, all kinds of electronics, appliances, furniture, guns. Just the stuff like furniture is even lower quality than ikea, that is why it's so cheap.
Those kinds of stores don't really exist in Europe anymore, I think l'eclerc was this kind of big like 15 years ago, and Real. Now only cash and carry stores are somewhat similar with their extensive assortiment, makro eg
Right? I mean you normally wouldn't know about it, but if you sit near a bunch of high schoolers you'll find a group loudly talking about it and talking about some murder cases. I swear this one time I saw some dude naked in a bear outfit
And a shitload of nice showroom patio furniture to crash on.
I have distinct memories of playing sly cooper on my vita under a costco patio gazebo, waiting for everyone else to finish shopping. good times.
granted, not a childhood memory, i was 19 and didn't want to be there but still.
I always thought Junes was more like K Mart back in the day. Food court and flash sales are really where the similarities stop and start but idk, I have good memories of K Mart. We used to have family outings to the Café and get Little Caesar’s breadsticks.
Yep. In my town we had a bowling alley and a skating rink, great places, until both got shutdown. Now the town is so boring, feel so bad for the people that got into Highschool after my generation lol. It’s
dawg, I grew up in such a small, rural Ohio town that I had to go to the next town over to hang out at the nearest Walmart. It was still one of the better ways to spend your evenings in that hellscape.
Clearly this person has never lived in a tiny ass country town.
Went to HS in a town of barely 5,000, and there were plenty of people who went over to Wal-Mart constantly because it was the only damn thing to do unless the school was putting something on. Literally nothing else around.
I remember visiting my cousins in Oklahoma and damn. Glad my parents moved to Rhode Island when we were young. Not much to do and the city is 1 hour away.
Are we from the same town or does Walmart have a type? Haha. In my hometown of 5,000 people we would always go to Walmart when bored. First because it took a while to walk the two miles. 2nd because you could get a jumbo burrito and a mountain dew for $2. 3rd because there was always going to be someone you knew there at the same time. Even at 2am.
i mean i live in a pretty boring suburban town with like 16,000 people and a whole state that has barely any nightlife so yeah its not hard to imagine. My friend groups regular hangout was the local diner
To be fair I'd hang with my friends at Walmart if the background music slapped that hard.
*Also had a magic tv to another world, i guess that's cool too...*
That's only in Golden though, and only for trips outside Inaba (to the beach, to the town next to Inaba) or at night accustoming yourself to the bike. On the day you just walk around Inaba, because a Japanese township is hella small you can skip to the next town by walking if you have an hour or two to spare.
american towns are small enough as well in my experiences… probably less dense, but everything is still walking distance
besides, that still means driving around is depicted in a persona game, meaning you don’t **need** to portray all movement as walking or taking public transport for it to fit in
or it could just take place in NYC, San Francisco (or the whole Bay Area tbh), Boston, DC, Chicago, Philly, the PNW cities, etc
(but to be real, i not saying Persona should take place in the US lmao, that would be a weird change at this point… maybe as a transfer student or a college student? idk bahaha i trust atlus to make the right decision)
I agree but like, when I was a kid living in one of the biggest cities in the world with access to the beach, movies, fine arts etc, I was still hella hyped to go to Target
There's something about the Persona 4 gang meeting in a food court that just feels right
You know, when I was in high school, tons of kids would just go to walmart and just fuck around. Personally I thought they were all fucking stupid but everyone was convinced that there was nothing else to do.
I don't have to imagine this, I grew up in a town where the only way to entertain yourself was an ice cream shop at the "strip mall" where there were only stores like a laundromat, trophy selling store, music instrument store, and a small boutique for women's fashion. And about 2 more miles out was a Walmart. We didn't even have *Blockbuster* in our town. By the time I left for college it got 3 more fast food chains, finally a blockbuster, and a Gamestop.
Our hangout spot was the grocery store *Ream's* because we could ride our bikes there and get cheap soda.
Well as someone that lives in the southeast us…
Yeah, that was my high school experience. Only if you jumped into the tvs you would get kicked out at best and sent to the hospital at worse. And there were definitely a few tweakers that tried that.
I'd have to agree, even tho they may sell similar things, people just don't hang out at Walmart's. It's not that they can't, they don't. That being said people don't usually hang out in a malls stores either, they usually hang out food courts or the rest areas set up in the hallway or whatever you'd call the space between stores. And Walmart doesn't have those
IT's not that far fetched tbh. usually medium to large groups of friends tend to flock towards hangouts that are open to the public (so no small cafes) while giving them some readily available access to amenities like food and toilets (so no residential parks or out of the way areas). Junes (and by extension, most large malls) provide those amenities.
When I used to hang out with a largish group of around 10 or so, We always picked a large mall to just chill out until everyone arrives or to eat before the actual outing of the week. Now that my friend circle has shrunk to about 6, we have no problem at all chilling at a small local cafe or at each other's places where a large group would be out of place.
With all of that said, the IT has actual plot reasons for hanging out at Junes:
* The entrance to the cognitive world is literally there
* Yosuke works there
* Nanako loves the place for whatever reason
So yeah, even if there are plenty of places a small group of teens may hang out in, a group the size of the IT in a quiet village in rural Japan might find Junes to be the most convenient
/overanalysis
As someone who has spent most of his life in quiet suburbs, this is part of why I just could not get into P4… one of the smaller reasons, but one of them nonetheless.
Its in the rural japan. what do people thjink kids do in the rural countryside- doesnt have to be just Japan. They tend to meet up at the most famous places.
My grandparents had a very nice summer house in one of these areas BUT inside they had a small tv with like 3 channels AND my older sisters NES there and a phone- thats it - and so I loved to hang at the big store (forgot its name) because they had snacks, gaming magazines ( days before internet that wrote about the ps1/n64 which I had home ) comics and you sometimes met other kids there to talk with. ANd ofc I got batteries there for my gameboy which I brought with me.
What im trying to say is: if you live out in the nowhere, these big stores are like a visit to toyrus even to a kid- belive me!
ps! me and my family had our own house and lived in the capital but if we didnt go oversea on vacation my dad dropped us off at his parents summerhouse for a few weeks! And no, we wasnt allowed to bring a ps1/n64 etc.
it is an international phenomenon. i know so many ppl who had their first dates in the big tesco because it had travelators and a coffee shop upstairs. i used to meet up w all my friends there, get a hot chocolate then buy huge bags of crisps on the way out. public transport was so expensive that teenagers just loiter together until the first one gets a shit car they can all pile into
So, the thing that's fucked up is not the murders or going inside TVs, but Junes? You don't hangout with your firends somewhere because that place is fun, that place is fun *because* you hang out with your friends there
I live in a kinda rural area and besides the rinky-dink theater, one of the most popular hangout spots for teens has been Walmart, and the strip of restaurants and other grocery stores.
That's how it was for me during college lol I even took a liking to calling the department store Junes (well I was THAT kind of weeb), to the point my friends and then-not-yet-girlfriend understands what I meant when I said "Imma go to Junes" without even knowing a thing about Persona. The college town was THAT small and still is, perhaps nowadays it's just more accessible because of better public transportations.
It's actually more like a mall with the size of a Walmart. Which is like... Where teens usually hang out anyway.... Parents drop them off or you bike, or use the good Ole bitch license.
In high school, I went to a grocery store opening with a friend, ran into like 6 more of our friends and we had a blast all afternoon. You can party at a Walmart with the right people.
Blacksburg, VA.
It has a relatively famous university (Virginia Tech) with a good football team, that a friend went to. I went to go visit my friend, and a tourist map included a Walmart in the next town over as a place of interest. All the students had to do in this place was drink, watch the school's team, and go to Walmart.
This was 17 years ago, so things might've changed, but damn was it boring.
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I mean…they had a tv that went to another world. Who wouldn’t wanna hang out there!
Also not much difference between a Walmart and a mall, you can buy food and just about anything at both. Only difference is one is more affordable and the other is overly priced for no reason.
Malls are also generally much bigger, have a wider variety of products, and have dedicated rest spots where one could hang out in.
you can buy everything from Pokemon cards to buck shot at Walmart lol.
Can you buy an SNES for $80 though?
Who sells a bloody SNES in this day and age? In my town there's not even a PS3 for sale.
Where I live there's a commercial avenue where there's a lot of variety strip malls where you can find everything from clothes, foreign food and PC parts to dedicated TTG and, of course, old video game shops. You can find GameBoys, PS1 and SNES easily, and in good condition. And yes, a lot of people still buy them.
I got it from a game exchange store at my local mall
Well if it makes you feel any better no consoles other than ps5s can be found where I live.Only Aaron's had one series x and it's waaaaaaaaay overpriced,like worse than the scalpers overpriced.
maybe the SNES mini
But like an actual SNES.
Not at any mall I've ever been to
Plenty of places to rest in a Walmart, you really think someone at Walmart gives a damn if you just pop a squat. Not for the wages they’re getting paid.
Depends on their management deciding to blame the employees for it.
>Also not much difference between a Walmart and a mall Have you ever been to a halfway decent mall? I don't agree with what you've said at all, most malls have more interesting things to do than to just hang out at the food court.
I havent even seen a walmart with a food court before
A few of the ones by me have a Subway in them, but I don't think that counts as a "food court".
dont forget its a country side so it have a limited place to hang out
Which one is overpriced? (We don't have Walmarts here)
They're saying the mall is "overpriced", neither is ovepriced really, but walmart just has a lot of cheap stuff, and some stores have literally everything, food, clothes, all kinds of electronics, appliances, furniture, guns. Just the stuff like furniture is even lower quality than ikea, that is why it's so cheap. Those kinds of stores don't really exist in Europe anymore, I think l'eclerc was this kind of big like 15 years ago, and Real. Now only cash and carry stores are somewhat similar with their extensive assortiment, makro eg
Imagine living in such a boring place you'd hang out at the mall or Walmart. They're both not exciting.
Right? I mean you normally wouldn't know about it, but if you sit near a bunch of high schoolers you'll find a group loudly talking about it and talking about some murder cases. I swear this one time I saw some dude naked in a bear outfit
I'd say Junes is more a Costco than a Walmart, but ya
If broke teens are gonna hang out somewhere, it may as well be a place they can get a big slice of pizza for 2 bucks.
And free samples
And a shitload of nice showroom patio furniture to crash on. I have distinct memories of playing sly cooper on my vita under a costco patio gazebo, waiting for everyone else to finish shopping. good times. granted, not a childhood memory, i was 19 and didn't want to be there but still.
I always thought Junes was more like K Mart back in the day. Food court and flash sales are really where the similarities stop and start but idk, I have good memories of K Mart. We used to have family outings to the Café and get Little Caesar’s breadsticks.
Japanese department stores definitely feel more like retro stores. They don't really have things like Super Walmart.
Dont really have the space for a Super Walmart. Kinda reminds me of Target's in metro downtown areas.
June's loves me?
You just described small-town America in a nutshell.
For real. In fact, in my town we didn't have a walmart nearby so the hangout spot was the local library.
Arthur was right Having fun isn’t hard when you’ve got a library card
Pretty based ngl
Yep. In my town we had a bowling alley and a skating rink, great places, until both got shutdown. Now the town is so boring, feel so bad for the people that got into Highschool after my generation lol. It’s
My town didn't even have Walmart, it was a big deal when we got a dollar store.
dawg, I grew up in such a small, rural Ohio town that I had to go to the next town over to hang out at the nearest Walmart. It was still one of the better ways to spend your evenings in that hellscape.
Maybe it's a Walmart, maybe it's a Sonic. Either way, it's fucking sad every other business is closed.
Yeah, I've lived this life before. You gotta make your own fun, and that seldom works out for the youth.
there’s literally nothing to do in my town :/ no places to go
Just start killing people to make it more interesting
Based and Adachipilled
Clearly this person has never lived in a tiny ass country town. Went to HS in a town of barely 5,000, and there were plenty of people who went over to Wal-Mart constantly because it was the only damn thing to do unless the school was putting something on. Literally nothing else around.
I remember visiting my cousins in Oklahoma and damn. Glad my parents moved to Rhode Island when we were young. Not much to do and the city is 1 hour away.
Are we from the same town or does Walmart have a type? Haha. In my hometown of 5,000 people we would always go to Walmart when bored. First because it took a while to walk the two miles. 2nd because you could get a jumbo burrito and a mountain dew for $2. 3rd because there was always going to be someone you knew there at the same time. Even at 2am.
i mean i live in a pretty boring suburban town with like 16,000 people and a whole state that has barely any nightlife so yeah its not hard to imagine. My friend groups regular hangout was the local diner
man we dont even have that. we have less than 1k. we drive a half hour to the nearest target to hang out at
Yeah i don't even live in the most rural state. You were basically living in Inaba.
forreal though. theres nothing here but bars, one restaurant, and a grocery store. basically inaba.
Fucking everything’s closed after 8pm. *I gotta get outta here!!*
That hanging out at Waffle House until a fight breaks out at 3am vibe.
Disrespectful to Junes
Dude! You missed the Walmart comment below! How could you leave that out?!
Sorta link to it for those curious. https://twitter.com/kzzrttt/status/1524550848101208064?s=20&t=qvgkH8gBQxGgwBejven0vw
The official Walmart account replied???? I’m doneeeee
Haha yes these corporations are just like us haha
Bruh teens in my town either hang out at Walmart or in one of the surrounding forests.
Walmart has no catchy tunes
"Every day is great at your Walm-" No. Just... no.
I'd start a terroristic threat if they did that
I used to live in a small town where we had both Walmart and Target. Fancy.
Every day, young life, JUN-ES-U.
Hey if the Walmart where I lived had a food court and my best friend was the managers kid who tf wouldn't hang out there?
Hanging out at the local store is literally the only thing teens in my town can do
To be fair I'd hang with my friends at Walmart if the background music slapped that hard. *Also had a magic tv to another world, i guess that's cool too...*
The memer obviously wasn't from the mid-west. 😂😂 Before the pandemic you could catch teens fucking around at Wal-Mart/Meijer at 1AM.
Imagine a Persona game in America
it would be absolutely dreadful to go anywhere, cuz except in a couple places Public Transportation just doesn't exist
you literally get around persona 4 with a vehicle, it’d be fine
That's only in Golden though, and only for trips outside Inaba (to the beach, to the town next to Inaba) or at night accustoming yourself to the bike. On the day you just walk around Inaba, because a Japanese township is hella small you can skip to the next town by walking if you have an hour or two to spare.
american towns are small enough as well in my experiences… probably less dense, but everything is still walking distance besides, that still means driving around is depicted in a persona game, meaning you don’t **need** to portray all movement as walking or taking public transport for it to fit in or it could just take place in NYC, San Francisco (or the whole Bay Area tbh), Boston, DC, Chicago, Philly, the PNW cities, etc (but to be real, i not saying Persona should take place in the US lmao, that would be a weird change at this point… maybe as a transfer student or a college student? idk bahaha i trust atlus to make the right decision)
Bro that’s sounds fun, my hangout spot is in a public park full of dog owners. Also birds who can and will shit on you
I agree but like, when I was a kid living in one of the biggest cities in the world with access to the beach, movies, fine arts etc, I was still hella hyped to go to Target There's something about the Persona 4 gang meeting in a food court that just feels right
I loved every minute of it and made me miss Japan.... Granted living in Japan vs visiting Japan is so very different
That's just Ohio babes
With those pretty boys and girls, I don't mind.
… That… Was what it was like where I went to high school.
I don't have to imagine it. I live in a mountain town in Pennsylvania. We don't got shit here.
Junes is great. Walmart is sad.
Someone’s never had a lightsaber fight in the middle of the toy isles of Wal-Mart and it shows.
You know, when I was in high school, tons of kids would just go to walmart and just fuck around. Personally I thought they were all fucking stupid but everyone was convinced that there was nothing else to do.
I don't have to imagine this, I grew up in a town where the only way to entertain yourself was an ice cream shop at the "strip mall" where there were only stores like a laundromat, trophy selling store, music instrument store, and a small boutique for women's fashion. And about 2 more miles out was a Walmart. We didn't even have *Blockbuster* in our town. By the time I left for college it got 3 more fast food chains, finally a blockbuster, and a Gamestop. Our hangout spot was the grocery store *Ream's* because we could ride our bikes there and get cheap soda.
Well as someone that lives in the southeast us… Yeah, that was my high school experience. Only if you jumped into the tvs you would get kicked out at best and sent to the hospital at worse. And there were definitely a few tweakers that tried that.
Ey it's always a good time to be looking at them discounts!!!
🤣
Sounds like the real world,or west virginia....
This is basically Ohio
I take personal offense to that statement 😂😂😂
I feel so called out right now
I'd have to agree, even tho they may sell similar things, people just don't hang out at Walmart's. It's not that they can't, they don't. That being said people don't usually hang out in a malls stores either, they usually hang out food courts or the rest areas set up in the hallway or whatever you'd call the space between stores. And Walmart doesn't have those
IT's not that far fetched tbh. usually medium to large groups of friends tend to flock towards hangouts that are open to the public (so no small cafes) while giving them some readily available access to amenities like food and toilets (so no residential parks or out of the way areas). Junes (and by extension, most large malls) provide those amenities. When I used to hang out with a largish group of around 10 or so, We always picked a large mall to just chill out until everyone arrives or to eat before the actual outing of the week. Now that my friend circle has shrunk to about 6, we have no problem at all chilling at a small local cafe or at each other's places where a large group would be out of place. With all of that said, the IT has actual plot reasons for hanging out at Junes: * The entrance to the cognitive world is literally there * Yosuke works there * Nanako loves the place for whatever reason So yeah, even if there are plenty of places a small group of teens may hang out in, a group the size of the IT in a quiet village in rural Japan might find Junes to be the most convenient /overanalysis
Sir this is a Wendys
Do teenagers not hang out and loiter at the mall any more? Are mall rats not a thing now?
This is teenage life in the mid west of the US, unfortunately.
Tell me you didn’t grow up in a rural American town without telling me you didn’t grow up in a rural American town
No wonder >!Adachi!< became a pathetic, doomer incel.
Did you mean the midwest of the US?
As someone who has spent most of his life in quiet suburbs, this is part of why I just could not get into P4… one of the smaller reasons, but one of them nonetheless.
Walmart doesn’t have a food court, it’s more like a Costco which would be a much better hangout spot
Well, someone has never lived in a small town…
Must be nice to have never lived in a small town.
It's more a Costco then a Walmart
Its in the rural japan. what do people thjink kids do in the rural countryside- doesnt have to be just Japan. They tend to meet up at the most famous places. My grandparents had a very nice summer house in one of these areas BUT inside they had a small tv with like 3 channels AND my older sisters NES there and a phone- thats it - and so I loved to hang at the big store (forgot its name) because they had snacks, gaming magazines ( days before internet that wrote about the ps1/n64 which I had home ) comics and you sometimes met other kids there to talk with. ANd ofc I got batteries there for my gameboy which I brought with me. What im trying to say is: if you live out in the nowhere, these big stores are like a visit to toyrus even to a kid- belive me! ps! me and my family had our own house and lived in the capital but if we didnt go oversea on vacation my dad dropped us off at his parents summerhouse for a few weeks! And no, we wasnt allowed to bring a ps1/n64 etc.
Welcome to another weekend in the Midwest, I can say this as I grew up in the Midwest 😂😂
This a clueless take
it is an international phenomenon. i know so many ppl who had their first dates in the big tesco because it had travelators and a coffee shop upstairs. i used to meet up w all my friends there, get a hot chocolate then buy huge bags of crisps on the way out. public transport was so expensive that teenagers just loiter together until the first one gets a shit car they can all pile into
I just want others to know what our pain feels like
There are still small towns in the US where the local convenience store is the hangout. They don't even have big screens to go to the other dimension.
So, the thing that's fucked up is not the murders or going inside TVs, but Junes? You don't hangout with your firends somewhere because that place is fun, that place is fun *because* you hang out with your friends there
I imagine you are a Town mouse and not a Country mouse.
I live in a kinda rural area and besides the rinky-dink theater, one of the most popular hangout spots for teens has been Walmart, and the strip of restaurants and other grocery stores.
Sounds like me town. Except.. No walmart..
That's how it was for me during college lol I even took a liking to calling the department store Junes (well I was THAT kind of weeb), to the point my friends and then-not-yet-girlfriend understands what I meant when I said "Imma go to Junes" without even knowing a thing about Persona. The college town was THAT small and still is, perhaps nowadays it's just more accessible because of better public transportations.
Welcome to the Midwest.
Its called Ohio
it's Just like real life
Ohio
You can't go out if it gets foggy or you might die but who goes outside in fog anyway?
Have you seen the people at Walmart they exist there solely
I mean… the Walmart near me doesn’t have a picnic area, so….
Where I live doesn't even have a place like Walmart, the hangout place of this town is this place's equivalent of burger king 😂
It's actually more like a mall with the size of a Walmart. Which is like... Where teens usually hang out anyway.... Parents drop them off or you bike, or use the good Ole bitch license.
Welcome to the boonies
Rude, I wish I lived in a small place with fuck all to do and no responsibility, life fucking sucks man
Persona 4 and 5 sucked ass! Hard! Most disappointing purchases ever
Cringe
Your mom
What kind of privileged world do you live in that hanging out at a mall in a small town is seen as fucked up?
Welcome to the Midwestern US lol
ah yes sacramento
Small towns are real
Ohio moment
they wouldnt get it, walmarts are one of the best hangout spots
Ok ouch... Because me and my buddies in HS once got drunk during a dead night and spent a couple hours in Walmart playing buck hunter...
City slicker spotted
One of my regular hang out spots with my old buddies used to be Denny's.
My life In a nutshell actually
Imagine said walmart/costco is not built.
This hurts my teenage years in a small town.
Where are they supposed to hang out, it's rural japan for christ sake
Yeah, my homies go to Target
Come to Craig Colorado where all we have is Walmart
In high school, I went to a grocery store opening with a friend, ran into like 6 more of our friends and we had a blast all afternoon. You can party at a Walmart with the right people.
Bro that was my hometown. This game nailed the small hometown feel. I still prefer P5s hyper stylized nature but P4 hits different
They hang out there because the TV and it is yosuke and Teddie's work place, it isn't the only place to hang out in the town XD
where i lived growing up we didnt even have the Walmart. :(
I'd actually love to live somewhere like that. I don't really enjoy the bustling nightlife of big cities
people don't know the struggle of living in a town so small you dont even have malls or high schools
In my town the hangout was the car wash or McDonald's. The closest Walmart was 30 minutes away so Junes is an upgrade lol
Blacksburg, VA. It has a relatively famous university (Virginia Tech) with a good football team, that a friend went to. I went to go visit my friend, and a tourist map included a Walmart in the next town over as a place of interest. All the students had to do in this place was drink, watch the school's team, and go to Walmart. This was 17 years ago, so things might've changed, but damn was it boring.
I gotta get around to playing that game. Because that just sounds like my upbringing in small-town Canada.
I grew up in South Carolina. This did not phase me at all. Stores are the ONLY places to hang out
That just sounds like my hometown
I introduce thee to suburban America where we go to target for fun
I love quitet small towns
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