How the 'urban doom loop' could pose the next economic threat

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Retail apocalypse underway

Malls closing. Strip malls half-empty. I see retailers move 3 doors down, or across town, into a recent vacancy that couldn't support the last big box implosion. They seem to be aggregating into space with the best transportation access. Strip malls in congested areas with light parking are going under. It takes years, then they demolish the whole thing. It's sad, and wasteful.

I can't find what I want in stores anyway. It's better to order online, even if for in-store pickup because they don't put the good stuff on the shelves. They put the high price, hard to move stuff.

We are so doomed.