Amazon is Killing Our Malls!

I needed new glasses, so I headed to Kings Plaza last week to pick them up from LenCrafters. While waiting for my lenses to be ground and put in their frames, I walked around the mall to discover a few interesting facts, some of which surprised even people who shop there all the time, like my mother:

Waldenbooks and B. Dalton have closed. There are no bookstores in the mall now.

Sam Goody closed at some point, so there's no place to buy CDs either. Or DVDs, since Suncoast closed years ago.

Bomba Toys closed. That was the replacement for KB Toys, but it didn't last long. After walking around some, I did find another store on the second floor which may actually still be Bomba, but under a different name. There wasn't even a sign. The store sucked though; they didn't have any of the newer toy lines.

There are three GameStops in the mall now. Granted, this is because GameStop merged with EB Games, but you think they would have closed at least one store. Two of the stores are across from each other!

I call lame. This sure isn't making a convincing argument for brick-and-mortar shopping.