The dollar stores are coming

The malls that are not dead are full of teens fighting.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/12/26/reports-mall-disturbances-light-up-social-media/95859862/

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/27/us/mall-disturbances-after-christmas/index.html

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fights-disturbances-chaos-breaks-out-malls-across-united-states-n700391

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/fights-disturbances-shut-down-malls-across-u-055241988.html

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_AURORA_MALL_EVACUATION

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4067534/Chaos-reigns-malls-country-break-mass-brawls.html

Large Brawl At Mall Leads To Pandemonium At Westfield Culver City

Walmart

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-walmart-crime/

Department stores

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2016/08/11/retailers-closing-stores-macys-walmart-kmart-sears-aeropostale/88560318/

http://www.qz.com/669500/department-stores-should-go-ahead-and-shut-down-hundreds-of-locations-report-says/

Not the rich ones

http://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2015-12-23/high-end-malls-defy-death

Even strip malls are dyeing

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/digger/wp/2016/05/16/in-some-towns-the-strip-malls-cant-die-fast-enough/

Here we call them poundland. They are everywhere. It’s not about the internet.

Hell the biggest most exciting ground breaking upgrade thing in a town here is the opening of a Travel Lodge (A nice motel)

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