Reply #133: The Mall knows the consequences.

[TexasObserver]

While it will mean their teen age business will diminish, that will be offset by the purchasing of adults who like shopping in a mall free of packs of unsupervised children. Businesses study these things before doing them. They project the increased and decreased business which will result, often after building models based upon historic data.

The unsupervised children create more costs than their buying offsets. They discourage other shoppers who are better customers. Simple math dictates that they be eliminated.

This is not an isolated incident. This is a trend that is emerging for good reason. The age of unsupervised kids roaming the malls with few limitations is ending, at least for the good malls. As malls implement this policy, they'll see business increase, because customers who are there to shop will dominate, and they won't have to navigate their way past annoying, ill behaved kids whose parents think the mall is the family entertainment center.