Twilight of the mall era

Ned Baily

Things look good at Woodfield mall in sprawl Schaumburg. The place is crowded often with people going back and forth. Some of them buy things many just walk through staring at images of advertising of high end clothing. Malls are the exclusive outlet of wealthy folks who want to walk around and show their designer clothing. For many of the nations malls in America though times are tough and the costs of maintaining the mall is becoming more and more difficult in the era of capital scarcity. I imagine in a matter of time people will even become tired of glorious Woodfield Mall and the mall of America in Minneapolis. People in these suburban areas do not appreciate walking and if they did they would live in an urban walkable community. It does not make sense driving to a huge parking lot and then walking far into a indoor dull bazaar is not anyones idea of a scenic glamor image. Most of these malls are filled with teenagers who have little appreciation for idealistic urban meccas.In a few years they will realize that the suburban landscape is a very gloomy place and the vast majority will escape the scene in their twenties. I think women will really struggle with the excessive shopping coming demise when the economic collapse comes.
    Women are the main reason for household and government massive debts we see all over the Western world. Consumerism and the role of these high end malls are the primary cause of this.As far as the other main group you see in these malls, teenagers  will come to realize that the very reason they spent so much time in the mega suburban malls across America in the first place was because there was so little of real value to do in their parents chosen habitat of suburbia. Yes even Woodfield mall in Schaumburg will fall as this always transient suburb becomes more ethnically diverse and white flight takes further hold Older folks will want to leave this town along with the twenty somethings. They will all want to move away from increasing number of one ethnic Indian restaurants and shops in the cruddy strip malls that surround this cruddy corporate mega mall. One day Woodfield Mall will be one huge massive ethnic bazaar split into two. One will be an Hispanic flea market while the other half will be an Indian bizarre bazaar.