Hotel shopping areas consisted of retailers selling primarily expensive and tacky (or sometimes cheap and tacky) merchandise, and malls were utilitarian outlets of typical retail stores.
Hotel shopping areas just sold tacky junk but now they are much more upscale.
mnli hypothesis: Hotel shopping areas just sold tacky junk but now they are much more upscale. premise: Hotel shopping areas consisted of retailers selling primarily expensive and tacky (or sometimes cheap and tacky) merchandise, and malls were utilitarian outlets of typical retail stores.