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Shopping habits in the United States have changed greatly in the last quarter of the 20th century.
1
in the 1900s most American towns and cities had a Main Street. Main Street was always in the heart of a
town. This street was
2 on both sides with many
3 businesses. Here, shoppers walked into stores to
look at all sorts of merchandise: clothing, furniture, hardware, groceries.
4 ,some shops offered
5 .
These shops included drugstores, restaurants, shoe-repair stores, and barber or hairdressing shops.
6
in the 1950s, a change began to
7 .Too many automobiles had crowded into Main Street
8 too few
parking places were
9 shoppers. Because the streets were crowded, merchants began to look with
interest at the open spaces
10 the city limits. Open space is what their car-driving customers needed.
And open space is what they got
11 the first shopping centre was built. Shopping centres, or rather
malls,
12 as a collection of small new stores
13 crowded city centres.
14 by hundreds of free
parking space, customers were drawn away from
15 areas to outlying malls. And the growing
16 of
shopping centres led
17 to the building of bigger and better stocked stores.
18 the late 1970s,many
shopping malls had almost developed into small cities themselves. In addition to providing the
19 of one
stop shopping, malls were transformed into landscaped parks,
20 benches, fountains, and outdoor
entertainment.
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