This is a design I like for my early malls: it's designed to deposit items in a row of chests right up against the walkway I use to move around my starter base. When you have logistic bots this becomes a non-issue since the bots will collect the items for you. Usually one has to run through a fair amount of mall to get to the chests containing the items one is interested in.
One feature I've not seen in other mall designs is optimization for browsing.
