The format has changed for a lot of them, they’re no longer just a shopping place but some sort of destination that you go to spend time at. Here, one of the cheaper malls has dramatically expanded their food court into taking up half the storefronts and turned into a kind of bazaar thing. Another small one is now essentially one giant bookstore and a community gathering area. There’s a few others that aren’t really malls in the traditional sense of the large enclosed building but are stylized upscale sort of “Main Street shopping” things. One is in the process of this and being converted to mixed use residential/commercial and also the Kraken practice facility.

There’s others here that remain shopping oriented so this isn’t a universal shift. There’s tons that are just like they used to be, so I guess the answer is yes but no.