That is at least one reason why so many malls across the country have closed. There’s even a Buzzfeed collection of photos of abandoned malls, capturing images such as the dying plants around a mirrored escalator at the Rolling Acres Mall in Akron, Ohio, shuttered in 2013. At the former Cloverleaf Mall in Chesterfield, Virginia, a popcorn cart sits abandoned, the neon “Food Court” sign over it no longer lit.
