Back in the day, a quality shopping mall was a wonderful place to patronize during the holiday season leading up to Christmas. For whatever reason or reasons, I am not feeling the same joyous spirit these days at shopping malls.

Pre-COVID, our local mall was *the* place to be during Sundays after church and certainly during the Holidays. Plenty of people and activity, and bustling stores. But after all the California politics, COVID closures, tax and regulation increases, and of course the growth of online shopping, there’s only a fraction of foot traffic. A quarter of all store spaces are empty due to the businesses leaving or shuttering altogether, and there’s a feeling of malaise pervading the air, worsened by an overall decline in attitude by employees nowadays that didn’t exist ten years ago. I much prefer to buy in person and pay with cash, but the options are becoming slimmer and it appears that the Golden Age of the Shopping Mall we enjoyed during the ’80s, ’90s, and ’00s is gone, perhaps forever.

It really makes my buttcheeks clench up every time I reluctantly buy something on Amazon, knowing that turd of a Bezos is traipsing around with Ms. Plastic at his side.

For years I resisted online shopping. I’m a convert now.

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