>>514096952
The vast majority of mall shops are aimed at women and they shop for entertainment, not for practical use. Big box stores and online are not a replacement for that. What men buy can be displaced by non-mall retail, especially online but the 80% of mall sales that were done by women have no analog outside the mall besides boutique shops.
It wasn't Amazon. It wasn't Wal-Mart. It was the pavement apes. Just because you, a male, happily switched from mall shopping to Wal-Mart doesn't mean women, the lifeblood of malls, wanted to make that switch. The only did so because of safety issues.