[T-Bone Texan]

"...Brick and mortar stores are going the way of the dodo and newspapers...."

Because society is not safe. Violent feral savages now run amok unrestrained. Let's acknowledge that.

[Vaquero]

Absolutely. But I was declaring an alternative to the malls in response to the feral animals.
I avoid the huge city/major suburb environment. and the malls by me, though ripe with jerks and criminals who shoplift, are just a little too removed from the types who riot in the malls closer to the city.

I stopped shopping in malls a couple of decades ago when I noticed that the same products were cheaper in stand alone stores probably due to the lower rents retailers have to pay. Also I found the non-mall stores more peaceful and relaxing.
When warehouse club-stores came around I hopped quickly on that bandwagon. Security is good because you have to show your membership card to enter and they check your cart when you exit.
Between Costco, Amazon and the local supermarket, I have become Mall-Free and happy to be that way.

I am not sure where the ferals shop around here. But it’s not where I go. Plenty of folks of color.....but no ferals or what I would call the ‘N’ word, which I consider a term of character and not of color.