Malls are digging their own graves by helping Amazon

When will retailers learn that Amazon.com is not their friend? Over and over again, retailers think that by partnering with the e-commerce king, they’ll benefit through some sort of halo effect that will allow the tremendous traffic Amazon drives to trickle down to them and boost their own sales. Rarely, though, does it seem to ever happen, and Amazon continues to undermine its competition in the process.