In many parts of the USA, suburban malls have banned buses from coming into their property, or from building transit centers at the mall.
This requires buses to just let passengers off in front of the mall on public roads.
I have noticed that many Canadian malls not only have nice transit centers, but ones that don't, usually have a sidewalk connecting the bus stop to the mall entrance or something.
No so in many American cities. This is what I faced taking the bus to the mall.
I would like to add that many people take the bus to the mall for work and to shop, and they are faced with situations like this in the USA. Can you think of any male in Canada which neglect bus riders like this?
This is the main bus stop in front of a major regional shopping mall.
This is what greets you when you walk off the bus
So instead of cutting through the grass and parking lot like you can in the warm weather, you have to walk over to the car access road ahead, and walk on a roadway with cars turning in and out.