Are physical malls still usual?

A follow-up of this past journal from last year and that one posted about 9 months ago.

While all the entire world became to act like a Zombie by the wedding of Amazon's wealthiest businesman Jeff Bezos and his wife Lauren Sanchez, here's that the reputation of malls is always shelved to its own use for communities all around and how they drawn tons of jobs right there, if they have some. If many younger Zs would like better to make a fortune by social media or ordered things on Temu than actually get out of their bed and do their part of denizen.

But one thing keep to bothered me for few months now is the utter lack of customers services in physical stores. It's been all downhill by the lack of shortage and other factors, when some of them doing this job for pay their university studies and other for rent and feed.

But in 2025, malls appear to me like a creation that worked out finely in the 20th century but is torn down by the e-shopping and the peoples' eco-anxiety that the capitalist world prefer better a world of luxury expenses than get free people of the street, helping people in need or saving the fewer natural habitats that humans have destroyed.

Its slow demise is not proven yet, but it's close to be done, by 2020s pandemic, inflation, the too-much pressures from environmentalists and parenting groups, the lack of shortage anywhere and other factors would tell you how in the USA and also elsewhere, these big malls became an extinction way specimen for later generations of consumers, due to the affordable popularity of Smartcentres.

For the people I know, the likes of Costco, Walmart and Dollarama are where they usually go, by have everything in the same place and for less that may costs the gas and traffic mess with crazy drivers who pretending to be on a GTA video game while driving fast their motor enginee. The niche stores only fewer hipsters going on for make themselves "cool" are doom to be shutdown if they refuse to adapt their stock-market in the harsh reality of physical stores in 2025.

Because one may assume that Bezos don't paid any tax at all, but Amazon given you the premise to get your stuff at the door the next day after you have ordered. No charges fees. No complains. Just do your job and that's it. It couldn't be that hard!

Who ever grew tired like me to notice that the consumers services have deteriorated since the past Holidays? Are we exists for these cashers? Even in a Consignaction store where I was in hurry to sells my four bags of cans and bottles, there was a long line of crowd who waiting patiently their turn, but in the most unfortunate moment, all the machines been out-of-work. Even if the technology from it is remarkable, the decision from our government to open lots of Consignaction stores "by force" in order to lure people to eliminate recycled cans from landfill sites will be more tolerable if there was more employees who worked there, because in the current time, I don't seen them much doing up their real work.

The decline of physical stores is close to be done if no one took seriously this drastic problem. Any electronic stores are the worst place to found someone who "actually" known the stuff they tried to sells. Cars dealers are also the champions to pretending at given to consumers a favor on anything. We have maybe no choice, but accepting that the ordering by our phone is going to be the new normal by be more easier, simple and effective than wasting hours on a boutique and be harassed by clerks who force you to buy useless things. It does happening to me years ago.

Its since many months that I don't longer spend my entire weekends in malls. These places have to be made occasionnaly in order to keeping it at a pleasant experience.