What do you think of shopping malls?

I am old enough to have been around when the first shopping malls appeared.  It was definitely exciting – all of these stores bunched together in the suburbs.  The first malls were all outdoor malls.  The first indoor malls created excitement too.  Wow, you could go from one store to the next without ever having to go outdoors.I think most of the luster of shopping malls has worn off.  There are just so many of them and they all have pretty much the same stores.  When shopping malls were still a novelty, you could actually get someone to wait on you. Now you are lucky if you can find someone who will point you in the right direction. You might as well buy on the Internet, which is what more and more people are doing.Many malls are closing and those still open have a kind of decaying quality. I think that if malls are going to survive they are going to have to reinvent themselves to be attractive places that encourage people to congregate.