Lahaina Cannery Mall

The Lahaina Cannery Mall’s history lies with the Maui pineapple industry back in the 1800’s in West Maui. Over the years, the aging industry slowly disappeared and plans were made to build a shopping center in place of the pineapple cannery.
With the history aside, the Lahaina Cannery mall is a cute little mall and a piece of Hawaiian history that can be lost in the shuffle when everything nowadays is about money, commerce, politically correctness, and entrepreneurship. The mall itself holds about 50 tenants and has Longs Drug store and Safeway supermarket as its anchoring tenants. Majority of the mall itself is covered and may have air condition during the day, although I usually come here during the mornings or evenings to go shopping. At least half of the mall’s retail shops involve specialty shops, jewelry, and clothing retail outlets. The rest of them are food options, which some include L&L Drive Inn inside the mall and Starbucks on the outside. The overall experience here is quite good.
The Lahaina Cannery Mall has your basics covered and you don’t really need to drive so far to get what you need, unless you want something quite specific. The Lahaina Cannery Mall is located at 1221 Honoapiliani Highway. If you are driving up from Ma’alea Harbor, the mall will be on your left, whereas the newer Lahaina Gateway center is on your right. Many merchants and establishments here at the Cannery Mall accept major credit cards, so that’s always a great thing. The Cannery Mall boasts a plethora of parking spaces to meet your needs, so there’s no real need to circle the block, unless you come during peak shopping times. I usually shop here at the Safeway and the Longs Drugs over the years and have bought food at the L&L BBQ Drive Inn on a few occasions. And of course, the Starbucks that’s attached to the mall itself is used for the morning and evening fix — or whenever I need it.
The Lahaina Cannery Mall is where locals and tourist folk can come together together and shop. For me, the location is very much convenient and is about 5 – 7 minute drive from the hotels and resorts in Kaanapali. And maybe 20 – 30 minute drive if coming from Kihei. There are drinking fountains and places to sit down and enjoy the mall, eating food, and just people watching. Shopping care can be average, but you know, it it’s always a good deal when you show up here. I do want to try that restaurant/​bar that’s next to the Starbucks one of these days. Looks like they were having a great happy hour and I wanted to be a part of it somehow.
Nice little community mall to shop while in Lahaina. It does not have your usual touristy things, but you may find some hidden gems here. As long as you don’t need to drive too far from your hotel or condo to shop for basic necessities, you should be good.
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B+

Decent mall, not very pretty or elaborate but it’s not very busy which is nice for Maui. Prices are reasonable, much cheaper than First Street. Parking is plentiful.

* Mall — a large building or series of connected buildings containing a variety of retail stores and typically also restaurants.
* Swap Meet — a gathering at which enthusiasts or collectors trade or exchange items of common interest. Ex.: «a computer swap meet». Synonym: a flea market.
Now I recognize in advance that there are a ton of things to do and/​or places to go while on this island and in search of additional methods to further deplete your funds — but, I can’t fathom this place being one.
Located on Honoapiilani Highway just outside of the ever so trendy Ka’ana’pali sits Lahaina Cannery Mall which has clearly amended the theory altogether of what a «mall» is and actually should be.
Walked in while visiting the island of Maui upon being made aware by a local that this place boasted a hookah store. Needing some new juice for my vaporizer, «Aww shoot». I thought, «…Lahaina’s got it going on»; only to arrive and take notice that said store was actually just a mid-​mall kiosk and this wasn’t by any means a mall — I’d been hoodwinked.
I’m affording an extra star simply for the variance at this kiosk altogether. It was as if the employee there was Houdini or something,…reaching into his hat/​vault, continuing to «wow me» with item after item!!!
Sadly, the rest of the «mall» hasn’t caught on, in terms of variance.
There’s a Dairy Queen, a surf shop, a few overpriced souvenir shops and a handful of drug stores. — — -Uhm. Okay. Is there really that much illness in Hawai’i???
I’m just sayin’.
Had this place been in LA — with the massive size of the parking lot that we viewed to continuously be empty on a daily basis, it’d have easily turned into the grounds for street tacos after hours. That, or skateboarding.
My humble recommendation is that all of the tenants occupying space within this place — CLOSE UP SHOP — and go independent.
While encompassing absolute potential by way of the glass ceiling, palm trees and undeniable Hawaiian flare —- without the presence of any actual heavy hitter (s), i.e.: Macy’s, Target, etc., I can’t fathom Lahaina Cannery being around for all that much longer.
#canned

It’s pretty rare if I ever end up down that side due to lazy to drive that far and dont want to pay for parking (lol). Today seem like one of those days I was bored at home & thought maybe I should check out Lahaina side.
It’s disappointing to see a mall not doing so hot. I only go there for DQ (blizzard). most of the shops & food places either moved or shut down.
They really need to get better shops & food places to get this mall going like the lahaina outlets.
You really dont have to worry about parking, there is a lot & I have never seen it busy even around the holidays.

Crazy T-​shirts. I gave this mall 5 stars because Crazy T-​shirts in the Cannery Mall does not have their own Unilocal.This review is a solely for this shop. The sales associate was so awesome. So informative and helpful. Honestly, we would have purchased some cheap shirts somewhere else if it wasn’t for her. Laura sold us two shirts that we really like. I really recommend going to this unique t-​shirt shop if you want a cool quality shirt as a souvenir. Laura is super nice and professional. Something I didn’t get from a surf shop in this same mall. She told us about the scents some shirts have… how they don’t shrink… where she was from in Maui. Treat her right, because she’s great. Thanks Laura from California.

Hula week-​end show was great! Fantastic dancers. Mall overall is small and slow.

Small, empty, and dismal. There’s a Safeway, an ABC general store, a small local toy store, a few souvenir shops, and a handful of rundown restaurant/​food court options. 2 stars for free parking, the knowledgable toy shop manager, and quiet seating inside for some much needed down time in our busy schedules day.

I ended up at the Lahaina Cannery Mall today, as I was desperately hungry, and had to take a massive pee, as things didn’t go too smoothly for me today. :(
It was getting late, and as I spotted this mall, I decided to pop on in to use the restroom, then forge around for some kind of fast & quick grindz.
Originally, I was thinking of looking for this place called — «808 Grindz Café» in Lahaina, but my plans changed as I was pressed for time.
Upon stumbling into this mall… it looked pretty nice on the outside, but when I got inside, I realized this mall appears to be dying…
The two main anchor stores are — Safeway & Longs Drugs.
Looking around, I noticed there are a lot of closed up shops here, especially the food vendors in the food court (as there were only 4 vendors left in the entire place).
The food vendors that are surviving in the food court are -
1, DQ /​Orange Julius
2. Bale Vietnamese Food
3. L & L Hawaiian BBQ
4. Casa Maya Mexican Restaurant
Food court — not so good here…
The mall itself is beautiful! I love the glass ceilings which brings in the natural light into the enclosed mall.
There is a lot of free parking in the humongous parking lot, but of course when the mall is dead, of course you will have a lot of parking available! Lol!
The mall has a few specialty stores, & clothes stores.
There is a Boss Frog & LuLu’s Restaurant too.
Looks like this mall needs some kind of reinvention of some sort, or a boost of energy to liven up this place!
The mall appears to be geared towards tourist, but I don’t see too much people around here… PERIOD!

This is a very small and disappointing mini mall. Most of the stores are vacant and the ones that are open were dismal and quiet. They definitely need to revitalize this location.

Terrible. How is his place still open? This place is extremely depressing. It should not be open. The only thing worth stepping in for is the ABC store and possibly the drugstore. There is nothing going for this mall.

An average mall with a bunch of little shops throughout. I enjoyed browsing, but it was different than the malls in California with much fewer people. Stop by if you want to kill some time, but next time I would pass.

Just okay — probably the best parts are that there is a Longs and Safeway market right there. Plus Lulus is out front and has kick butt food. Bathrooms were clean. Not many people around though. Who wants to go to the mall anyway when you’re in Hawaii!!!

Ohhh dearrr… this mall is depressing. When hubby and I were here years ago, it was pretty lively. It holds sentimental value since we heard the perfect name here (a random shopper who called her kid) and named our first born that same name (no, it’s not Hawaiian).
It was totally deserted when we came this Tuesday afternoon. There’s a lot of touristy shops now with Hawaiian apparel and knickknacks that you’d see at a swap meet but overpriced.
My friend told me about HIC’s little discount store so I came here to see if it was open or not (they’re supposedly only open during the day and if there’s an extra employee who can open it). It’s located near the main HIC store, and everything is discounted. Luckily, they were open so I checked it out and bought 2 T-​shirts for $ 11.99 each. They mainly sell men’s Ts, but also have men’s swim trunks and rash guards, women’s Ts, dresses, shorts, and bikinis, flip flops, and a very limited selection of boys/​girls’ apparel. You can exchange your purchase here but can’t return so choose wisely.
Other notables here are Longs Drug, ABC, and Safeway (if you run out of toiletries and snacks, LOL) as well as Starbucks (service here also runs on Hawaii time). There’s also a free hula show at 1:00p on Saturdays and Sundays, 7:00p on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and free ukulele lessons at 5:45p on Tuesdays.

Went to the Lahaina Cannery Mall today which is located on Front Street. There are not that many choices of stores to choose from. They have a few places to choose from to eat which are L&L, Bale sandwich and a Mexican restaurant plus. Lulus lahaina. Safeway and Longs drugs are great places to get food and things you need. Also on Sundays they have a hula show in the center of the mall which starts at 1:00 pm. This is am indoor mall. So its nice on a sunny day.

There are other options to shop and this place isn’t on the top of anyone’s list, but it’s not a bad place to go to. There seems to be a lot of empty spaces and it is apparent that many vendors left. Those that are there are mostly tourist shops, so if you’re a tourist, then you probably could benefit here. Shops all close early. Longs is opened ²⁴⁄₇ for those of you staying in Lahaina. I prefer shopping on Front Street in Old Lahaina instead.

The mall itself is 3 stars because there aren’t that many exciting shops and the food court has only 3 options.
But the 1pm hula show on the weekend gets 5 stars! It’s keiki hula or kids hula on the weekends. We first went on Saturday, not knowing what to expect. My 3 year old liked it so much that we went back again on Sunday! We thought it would be the same performers, but we were wrong! The show lasts about 1 hour and its not too crowded, so it’s a safe place to take young ones.
We used this as a «dry run» for the real luau experience because we didn’t want to pay $ 100 per person only to have my 3 year old say she wants to go home or is too tired to stay up late (gotta factor in the time change)!
It worked out perfectly for us! There was no long luau food line to stand in, no nighttime bugs to shoo away, and no hot Maui temperatures to battle (the mall has AC). It was also a bonus that we saw kids hula because it made her more interested in watching.
If you have young ones and are on the fence about taking them to a real luau, you should come check this place out!

This is really a sleepy little mall — nothing special, but worth checking out. Several of the store fronts are peddling tourist related crap, but what would you expect. They do have a few anchor stores that make this location worth walking.
The food court has a decent selection, so go with a appetite.
If you are looking for cool t-​shirts, they have a HIC (Hawaiian Island Creations) surf shop. They have some sweet designs that are easily distinguished from the typical tourist shirts, but they do cost $ 25+, but cool, is cool.
If you are looking to kill a good hour, this is not a bad place to do it, but it’s far from the new/​modern malls you might have back on the mainland. That said, you can definitely find what you need here.

There is nothing wrong with the Lahaina Cannery Mall, except the economy. Located north of old Lahaina a small drive, it is still central to many other places in town.
The mall itself is nice, well-​kept, and has some interesting stores in it. For the tourists, you’ll find your usual Long’s and ABC Stores as well as some clothing shops. Our kids like Maui Toy Works, which was something I hadn’t seen before.
The downside to the place is that it’s also half empty with a lot of closed areas. The rise in costs and the drop in tourist income has hit Maui hard, and the Cannery Mall made that noticeable. This was kind of depressing as you walked through, especially when you also noticed the lack of shoppers.
If you’re in Lahaina and would like some good shopping, the Cannery Mall is a decent spot. Lord knows they could use the income to revitalize what was once a happening location.

This is Maui’s first and only enclosed mall. It definitely is not a shopper’s paradise and is filled with a lot of touristy shops with very few national brands and no department stores. There’s a small food court and parking is plentiful.
EXCLUSIVES:
— Orange Julius/​DQ
HIGHLIGHTS:
— Ba-​Le
— Hawaiian Island Creations
— Longs Drug/​CVS
— Lulu’s
— Safeway

I definitely recommend… uh… umm… not coming here?
Other than Longs drugs and L&L, there really is no reason to come here while you are visiting. It feels like a ghost town. They really need to attract some better businesses…