Rant for the day

All stores in a major mall (those containing more than one national chain) should close at the same time. It's not good customer relations to force people to decide which order of stores to shop in so that you don't end up walking down the line of faceless storefronts (of a dozen national chains, including Lowe's, Target, and BedBath&Beyond in my case) only to find the automatic doors aren't opening like you expected, forcing you to navigate back across the cold and windy parking lot to wherever the hell it was you left the car.
Given that the whole range of closings doesn't cover more than an hour (do they close at nine, nine-thirty, or ten?), it's stupid...