Malls are digging their own graves by helping Amazon

Wikimedia When will retailers learn thatAmazon.comis 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. The latest rival willing to embrace its enemy is the U.S. shopping mall, which is a...