Passed by the monstrosity that is SM Mega Mall yesterday. As expected, the traffic was horrible. I can just imagine how the crowd is inside. Recently, SM was in the news because of all the pine trees in their Baguio mall that they’re “transplanting”. If you read what the experts are saying, they’re effectively just cutting the hapless trees down. Only gave me one more reason for me not to go to SM. I used to go to the original SM City but slowly I grew an aversion to it, the traffic, the crowd, the fugliness of the mall itself. Eventually I gravitated towards smaller malls like Robinson’s Galleria and avoided SM malls as much as possible. It’s past due time SM reinvents itself and do the community and the environment a favor. How about smaller malls with a focused market like High Street? Or ones where the ugly parking structure is underground and out of sight like Power Plant? Or ones a bit farther away from major thoroughfares? You can help by not going to SM. You’ll reduce the traffic. You’ll reduce the crowd. Maybe you’ll even help save some trees.