Buy one of the shorts, smallest one you can find. Get a half dozen parents to hold a protest outside of mall. Call all media, especially the local Limbaugh/Hannity affiliate radio stations. Call TV too for the “short burning.”
Ask viewers/listeners/readers to avoid all stores in mall, keep kids out of mall, etc.
Call other stores in mall. Let them put heat on mall management.
Call local DA. File a pornography available/in view of minors criminal complaint. Have media there when you do.
Get multiple people to do same.
Launch a “Keep your kids out of the XXX-rated mall” campaign.
Watch them squirm.
When they want you to call it off, agree to do so only after they donate somewhere between $1000 and $10,000 to local home for pregnant teenage girls and/or rape crisis center.
Don't stop with the conservatives. Get the Mothers of America” involved.
You were correct, the local media was interested.