Shopping malls are the new age cathedrals ?

In the beginning of this text Fiske uses the Catholics cathedrals as a metaphor for shopping malls. Saying that shopping, is like a religion and how "the exchange of money becomes a secular equivalent of holy communion". The downfall to this religion is not enough consumption of the product. That is when Fiske looks to adolescents, who flock to the malls but rarely buy anything. He talks about adolescents creating a mob scene, taking up the space at the mall, causing a riot. It is also known that if their is a group or teenagers, then they must have drugs or alcohol...Right? WRONG. While reading this article I could not believe the conclusions this guy jumped to about adolescents. Did it ever occur to him that just maybe teens don't have enough money to buy what they want all the time, and no other place to hang out ? Maybe they just want to get away from their parents for a little while, and the mall seems to be the only place where teenagers today can do just that. Why is it that when a group of teenagers get together, adult get scared ? In most cases teenagers are harmless, and just want a place to have fun, well at least that's how I felt when I went to the mall with my friends.