Explain, please? Many of us are now used to paying for things with debit cards. I have one that rebates 1% of my purchases each week. Debit cards are processed through the credit card systems (they all have either Visa or MasterCard logos). You can’t take debit cards if you don’t take credit cards.

I don’t keep enough in my bank account to qualify for ATM fee waivers or rebates. And my bank, which used to not do this, now charges a fee on top of the fee a foreign (I.e., not part of the bank’s network) ATM charges.

“I don’t care what you say about me, as long as you spell my name right.” —Henry Ford

This is indeed proof of the truth of that statement as far as marketing is concerned.

Thanks for building my vocabulary! That was indeed what I meant

It’s not a tabloid either, even if some tabloid-y stuff has appeared under its banner (and I would argue that most of what appears under its banner isn’t tabloid-y at all).

As you said, “This is not a newspaper.” A tabloid is also a newspaper, one whose page size is half that of a broadsheet. It was designed for reading on the bus or subway.

We are a magazine. Magazine journalism does differ from newspaper journalism.

Maybe I should have used “floor plan” or “configuration” in the correction.

Unlike the other two malls, which got de-malled as well as repurposed, Plymouth Meeting remains a two-level enclosed mall.

What was your handle on PB?

“How could Krasner do this to us” 😂

Great sendup of an all-too-common knee-jerk response to stories like this

I write the headlines for:

• articles I write that appear only online • the print versions of articles that appear in print and online, subject to revision by the editors above me

I have no say in the headlines for the online versions of print articles.

I agree that one could draw the wrong impression from this headline. And as I noted, this is really nothing new.

I got a couple of emails from readers who insisted that crime was the reason, including one who clearly didn't read the article, for that reader insisted that the businesses mentioned in it were actually planning to leave the city altogether when none of them are — and two of them expressly said they remained committed to their city stores. (The toniest of those two is run by a guy who lives on the western Main Line and was surprised to learn how many of his neighbors live entirely in the 'burbs with no contact with the city whatsoever).

But I'd also say that convenience rather than crime explains more of this. That same business owner said that when his store opened in Wayne, it got customers from Malvern who said that their pop-up in *Ardmore* was too far away.

Author here.

In my online channel, I do my best to span the region (though I do give NJ short shrift).

And ever since I joined the staff in 2015, I’ve noticed that our website has more city content than the print mag.

But as one other Redditor said in response to this piece: The serious money’s in the ‘burbs. And we live off advertising. Guess who our advertisers want to reach?

Even the article ended up being skewed towards one particular slice of the ‘burbs. I couldn’t find a well-known city retailer or restaurant that opened a branch in, say, Jenkintown, Montgomeryville, Doylestown or Media. But I’ll bet there’s one out there.