[mlcruz]

Really? This sounds very interesting, as the USA is the place that i would expect to have the most malls.

[keiferski]

Malls are looked back on nostalgically as a 90s/2000s thing by a big percentage of the population. The whole mallwave genre is one example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallsoft

There are still many huge malls, but generally speaking the vast majority of them have closed, are empty, or are being rebranded into something else.

[benatkin]

The comment you're replying to still holds.

> the USA is the place that i would expect to have the most malls

It's just that a lot of the malls have been augmented or replaced by strip malls. They have the same kinds of stores and they are still close enough to each other that it's convenient. Many have security, though it's more for the property than it is for the employees or guests, and there are large ones all over the place. You can go to Target and get a $14 can opener that you were hoping to pay $5 for but they made sure not to carry any cheap can openers, and notice there's a cell phone store nearby and go and get locked into a contract where you pay more than double. Don't forget to get some boring, expensive, and unhealthy food on the way out.

[FirmwareBurner]

>This sounds very interesting, as the USA is the place that i would expect to have the most malls.

Since online shopping took over, why would Americans travel long distances by car to go to the mall?

[hansvm]

Some things are still a lot easier to buy in-person, like books and clothes. Online stores rarely have enough information about the product, either as a whole (materials, specs, etc) or as an instance (wear and tear, etc).

[thfuran]

Amazon then COVID wrecked them.

[pimlottc]

COVID might have finally done some stragglers in, but large scale indoors malls in the US were pretty well wrecked long before that