I love Southcentre Mall and will shop here any day over Chinook Mall.
Chinook continues to expand and has bad parking and is always busy no matter the time of day that you go or day of the week that you go- it is always busy!
I only go to Chinook Mall when I need to go to a store that Southcentre doesn't have such as the Apple Store or Tiffany's or Kate Spade, etc.
However, besides that I will always go to south centre because for the most part they have the same stores as Chinook. They recently got a new sporting life store which is huge and two stories high. I think that this store is unnecessary which is why I gave this mall a 4 stars out of 5 because it took away from the parking and I think it is not a necessary store that many people go to. Although I love the fact that they are promoting to go and get outside into nature rather than promoting technology by putting say another Apple Store- I just wish it was little smaller so it took away less parking :)