Malls are just a bunch of stores. :shrug:
Now if you resolve only to shop at small, locally owned businesses, you might get some moral capital. But if you’re just buying shit off Amazon.com you don’t. At least malls pay taxes locally and give old people fountains to sit by.
We’re talking about the United States, nothing has less historical character than a shopping mall. Most are dropped down in greenfield space in the suburbs, a lot of the inner city malls which killed many of the traditional department stores with histories back to the 19th century themselves have died off in many areas.
Well, no, but it’s probably time to drop the hijack.
90% of the stores in most malls are “specialty” stores that can’t maintain profitability selling their niche crap without being part of a general wallet-magnet - pulling in a pool of people who buy for buying’s sake. If they couldn’t make impulse and SWB sales, they couldn’t survive. That says a great deal about the nature of malls - they are not a place to buy things, they are a place to spend money.
So do you shop on tv shopping channels?
LOL.