And because of the bad publicity it would generate, mall managers hesitate to crack down on loiterers (mostly in their teens and 20s) who scare away customers by their appearance, attitude and language.
Of course, Democrats are quick to defend miscreants against the selfish business owners who, every so often, do have to get police help to eject them from the premises.
Police brutality! Racial profiling! Call the ACLU.
Would this be a major contributor to the decline of shopping centers generally, and the reason so many former customers are opting to shop at Amazon? I think so.
We had a local mall which was s nice place to visit — until they added a bus stop which allowed people from the “inner city” a way to get there.
Part of it was to facilitate inner city people being able to apply for jobs at the mall. But the minorities turned the place into something white people didn’t want to go to. So it finally closed.