Across global markets—and with striking velocity in China—a structural shift is underway in commercial real estate: shopping malls are aggressively evicting legacy hypermarket anchors and replacing them with hard discounters and high-velocity value formats. The map is being redrawn. Legacy hypermarkets like Yonghui, Sun Art Retail (RT-Mart), and Walmart are scaling back or exiting prime basement locations, while hard discount formats — led by international heavyweights like A