One of the great issues facing the US retail industry currently, and particularly in the light of growing Internet-based sales, is the future of shopping malls. Some analysts believe that the decline in the mall 'experience' is yet another repercussion of the financial crisis of 2008 and the huge recession that followed by turning many US consumers into necessity-based shoppers. Consequently, that did away with the need to spend a day, or even just an afternoon, impulse shopping at the mall which has America's 'public square' for the last 60 years. All across the United States are the sad remains of once-thriving shopping malls.
