they've been doing this since 2010, it's because they don't like paying maintenance costs from people using them in the way they used the public space that was there before malls were all that's left.
it's so funny too, because foot traffic is the only way malls make sense monetarily, otherwise it's just 4 big box stores that smell like pretzels and antiseptic
Critical support for unruly teens hanging out at the mall and making the sort of human garbage who read Fortune articles about It's Cause You Be On That Phone mad
MALL GOTHS ARE BACK, BAYBEEE