Someone reminded me of this netcast episode, https://techwontsave.us/episode/170_the_online_shopping_boom_is_over_w_amanda_mull with the focus on how online shopping is slowly coming to an end (in the ways we've grown accustomed to). What I found more interesting was the lore of malls — growing up in Brooklyn, Atlantic Terminal and Kings Plaza were the malls of my mind. The way people spoke of Sears (of which there was one in Brooklyn but was defunct when I had shopping autonomy) made me wonder how it got crushed so quickly. And everything points back to tech.