They are leaving out the safety and security that has been a problem for years.
* Teens and young adults that are allowed to roam, whether harassing people, asking for money, shop lifting or selling drugs - and security isn’t allowed to kick them out or disperse them because that’s considered racist
* Flash mob fights for entertainment
* Shootings at some locations
This security issue is mostly limited to large indoor malls where adults send their children for a day as entertainment but without the money for a day of movies and entertainment. Or a bunch of people looking for fun bothering others or committing fun have an excuse - we were just going to the mall!
This doesn’t happen nearly as much at outdoor strip malls because people have to drive in and are dispersed.
Yup,
Shopping at malls used to be a form of entertainment for wives and women in general. They like shopping, it is fun for them to wander about aimlessly and look for that neat good that they needed but did not know existed. In the 1970s it was possible for parents to drop off their kids and let them roam as well, no one could get in trouble.
It was the middle 1980s that it started to go bad. Once the malls become infested by either black or Hispanic gangs, well the demographic of women and their kids stopped going.
Outdoor malls keep the riff-rif at bay. Both extreme cold and warm will keep them away.