I recently stopped by my hometown mall for the first time in 20 years. I described it to a friend as "it was like a neutron bomb went off". It had been a midd

I recently stopped by my hometown mall for the first time in 20 years. I described it to a friend as "it was like a neutron bomb went off". It had been a middle/upper middle class mall back then - big fast food filled food court, Macys/Filenes/Lord&Taylor, it even eventually got (and lost) an Apple Store. It was essentially empty and the stores had all gone down market. The nicest clothing store was H&M, and a bunch of storefronts were taken over by random nameless resale small businesses.