Places are starting to think minors are bad for business because they’re more likely to cause disturbances (and often hang around without spending money)
A lot of these businesses are creating curfews for unaccompanied teens after around 2/3pm on Fridays and weekends, banning them on Fridays/weekends altogether, and/or banning them in the afternoon every day of the week (although some of the bans, like at the boardwalk, are after around 8pm). Some are banning them outright.
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"They're being unruly, violating code of conduct, which can include running through the property in large groups, fighting and putting it on TikTok, basically disrupting business and making it uncomfortable for our everyday customers”
Quote from the general manager of the oldest mall in New Jersey
A strip mall by the high school in my home town always has kids loitering in a grass corner landscaped area to smoke and chill. The strip mall started playing that high pitched beeping that only youth can hear really loud 24/7 to ward them away.
Almost worse than an outright ban, just treating them like spiders than can be kept away with beeping devices
The poor kids who certainly get brought there by their parents, act up because their head hurts, and then get punished for it. Like, it's got to happen multiple times a day