>>1423361>McCormick & SchnmicksThere was actually one of these next to my local mall growing up then it went out of business. The mall's in a good location in a wealthy suburb and it still lost one of the big major department stores.
The other department store is Macy's. Macy's is currently in the process of closing 100 stores nationwide.
https://www.businessinsider.com/macys-stores-closing-list-2019-1Why? because the mall is a bad business model. If you want retail business to survive it needs to be around a mixture of uses.
Walmart realizes that and is implementing a "town center" concept to hopefully stay in business.
Is it a wonderful and tasteful idea? No. But even then, it's better than a strip mall.
