Shops at Waterloo Town Square

[tomh009]

If you repeat it often enough, maybe it will become an Internet meme?

While parking matters, especially for suburban malls, I think this is a gross oversimplification.

Okay.   Walk through the downtown malls.   Compare to suburban malls.  Enjoy a vape.   Nothing but 1 subsidized anchor in Market Square, a headshop, and a nail shop there.   

Sure, pick on the two struggling malls, but an anecdote does not prove a general statement.  Your statement was far more of a generalization; here it is again in case you have forgotten:

Ease of parking trumps almost all in retail.