Its a standard trope to never discuss security theater and teens as a threat at the mall, but anyone here between the ages of maybe 30 and 50 has surely been ha

Its a standard trope to never discuss security theater and teens as a threat at the mall, but anyone here between the ages of maybe 30 and 50 has surely been harassed by security as a teen and made to feel VERY unwelcome at their local mall. Oddly enough 20/30 years later I have fat stacks of cash and when I spend them I remember how I was treated at the mall, and never, ever return. And I was a relatively conformist non-minority appearing kid well spoken perfect English (edited: better than I write when I'm tired, LOL) and well groomed, god only knows what the minorities and punks had to go thru at malls in the 80s. The hilariously blunt yet accurate quote in the article about not having money is also accurate. A good computer analogy is DEC digital equipment corporation was in a perfect position to own the microcomputer market in the 70s/80s but they couldn't understand the market price collapse. The same thing happening in retail with the demise of the middle class. You can sell plenty of $200 sweaters to $75K/yr machinists in 1984 at the mall, but you can't sell $200 sweaters to $8.25/hr temp workers in 2014.