Rachylou, I love your purging criteria! You sound like a natural. :^)

I am also in the find-malls-overwhelming group. To try to counter that, I look online at the sites for the stores that are in the mall, and I see what those stores have available. I write down the styles of shoes that I want to try so that I can ask the SA about them. And then I can plan my mall attack, by starting at the store where I found my favorite prospects, then heading to the store with the next-favorite prospects, and so on.