Recent news articles indicate that traditional retail outlets such as malls and big box stores are becoming less and less profitable as online marketing becomes more and more prominent. infact, as malls are beingabandoned, they are being replaced by huge warehouses and transfer stations that allow companies such as amazon to get products to customers faster and cheaper by using data trends, algorithms, and other highly sophisticated predictive models. which dimension of the external environment best encompasses the factors affecting malls and box stores? a. political-legal environmentb. technological environmentc. sociocultural environmentd. economic environmente. global business environment