Arden Fair Mall: $$$$ over Common Sense
Arden Fair Mall banned me from walking the perimeters of the mall. I’m the only walker, see photo. I walk three feet away from Arden Way sidewalk. It’s so much safer. This has been going on for two months.
I spoke to their Corporate Office and tried to tell him:
- I wear a mask.
- I’m the only walker
- An elderly man with a walker walks about 100 feet back and forth about five times in one corner of the parking lot. He, too, is banned.
- Many mall workers do not wear masks.
- Two city buses park in the mall and their passengers do not wear masks.
- Food delivery drivers to restaurants do not wear masks.
- I often need to walk three feet over to their parking lot when I see bicyclists or someone walking toward me on the side walk, or see a homeless person sleeping near by.
- I’m forced to walk over to their lot when their sprinkling system sprays over sidewalks onto the street or when their workers are working near the sidewalk.
I’m yelled at by security guards when I’m on their ground except for one who ignores me.
I called their corporate office and before I could explain, he began to describe the two new shops that will be added to the mall and how I will enjoy the mall when it opens. I interrupted him and asked, “Is your answer yes or no to my request?”
He said, “No, because we do not want you to infect others.”
He confirmed my belief that most corporate offices are not human, they are robots who only see dollar signs. Human needs do not compute in their system. This would have been a good time for Arden Fair Mall to dig deeply into their humanity and common sense to help resolve human problems instead of seeing people as incoming dollar signs.
The mall opened yesterday and I’m not going near that mall; they might infect me.
Frances Kakugawa's Blog 
Another indication of the death of common sense. Under the circumstances, you would think the brick and mortar shops would be courting the hell out of people since so many of us have gotten so used to shopping online, we make never go back. So sorry Frances but you will find another place to walk and maybe to shop as well.
Add to Arden Fair’s irresponsibility the trash pile behind some shrubbery on their back road leading to the parking lots. It is littered with old mattresses, clothes, children’s toys, shopping carts, needles, condoms, disposed gloves and masks and other materials, a spot frequently visited by the homeless. Certainly a vector for spreading the disease throughout our community. Yet for 5 months of trying, Arden Fair and the other two jurisdictions serving the mall have disclaimed any responsibility for this public health danger, and have stonewalled and refused to clean it up. Indeed, security guards for all three jurisdictions have refused to even cross the 25-ft. road to have a look and take pictures and inform those who need to clean it up. Nor have any city agencies responded to enforce public health regulations (The police responded by saying, “We don’t pick up trash.”) What is it with those who put their self-interests ahead of the public interest to the point of committing negligent homicide rather than deal with clear and present dangers? (more details on this matter on my FB Red Slider page post, ‘PIGS & FARMERS’ (May 4th)