A few weeks back it occurred to me that I can't remember the last time I went to the mall. When I was a teen, it seemed like I lived there. There was the movies, the video arcade, the record store. I got to thinking, when was the last time I visited capitalism's asshole. Then it dawned on me, the only time I ever went there for the last few years was to do a little Christmas shopping.
So I drove over to the mall and I noticed something strange. When I was a teen, you couldn't find a parking space there for love or money. Now it's hard to find cars. So I took a walk through the mall. Shit, I remember this place being so crowded that you'd wanna pull your hair out. But now I just see one closed up shop after another. Jesus, where did all the customers go? As it turns out, this seems to be happening all across America. The shopping mall is going the way of the dinosaur. Maybe Amazon did it. Or maybe people just don't like malls anymore. But it seems that capitalism's asshole has taken it's last shit.The goods aren't on this floor.
How long until the only libraries left are the ones for people paying tuition, or the people working at Amazon?
Just as Country Clubs are.
Now to your OP;
The problem isn't the Mall or Amazon, it is the amount of business zones within a tiny densly populated area. Developers rush to erect their version of a retail "hotspot". Hell, I don't know what I'm talkin about lol. That's just how I see it. Too many malls.....not enough consumers within that tiny "zone"
The middleclass has been decimated, the rich shop at designer boutiques, the working poor can barely pay their rent and car payment/insurance, and the poor are just that.
In the corporate frenzy to reduce labor costs by mechanization and out-sourcing there is no-one left to buy the products produced by the corporations. The pitiful amount of discretionary incomes left are penuriously shopping on the Internet seeking to avoid sales taxes and subsidizing the commonly high leasing costs of the "Mall" stores.
A third World War dramatically decreasing the common population is what they will seek to remedy this ever growing problem born from now failing consumerism and decades of debt economics