America’s ‘Retail Apocalypse’ Is Really Just Beginning
Malls hold no interest for me whatsoever.  There&#x27;s nothing there worthwhile, other than employment.  Malls have nothing: no libraries, no Good Cafes, no places to hang out, no parks, no museums, no zoos, limited live music, no outdoors.  And the few things it does have: like some book stores and places to eat, are all engineered to get you in and out and back to the Mall&#x27;s singular focus: Spend, spend, spend: shop till you drop mentality.<p>However, I do feel bad for the people that will lose their jobs over it.<p>Let&#x27;s make towns have downtowns, with beautiful brick roads, scenic ponds with some ducks, perhaps a waterfall, some nice cafes, a lawn with benches, some parks, some nature, trees, live music, a library and museums.  It&#x27;s okay to have some retails stores sprinkled around here and there, as long as they&#x27;re original, and not those mass market plastic selling behemoaths we see everywhere.