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You find it sad because you have never experienced the beauty of a society without malls. With small little local shops instead of the big corporations and high street brands that all look the same. Europeans have. But it is being destroyed by the malls.

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Walk the Streets of Stockholm and you will find the same franchise/chain stores on every block.

In fact, many are quite happy to visit the “Mall of Scandinavia”

And many / most smaller towns only have chains.

That Euro charm that so many romanticize is not evenly distributed.

I see delivery vans in my street every day. As you say the only physical shopping people still want to do is in the upmarket malls.

I'm not trying to be snarky but plenty of small businesses open in our local malls. A mall is just a venue where businesses can exist.

Los Angeles probably has the most non-chain businesses in any of the cities I've lived in.

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