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Pruss ia, Pennsylvania. The largest mall in the United States is the Mall of America, located
near the Twin Cities in Bloomington, Minnesota.
The Mall of Arabia ins ide Dubai Land in Dubai, United Arab Emirates , which will
open in 2006, will become the largest mall in the world.
Mall can refer to a shopping mall, which is a place where a collection of shops all
adjoin a pedestrian area, or an exclusively pedestrian street, that allows shoppers to walk
without interference from vehicle traffic. Mall is generally used in North America and
Australas ia to refer to large shopping areas, while the term arcade is more often used,
especially in Britain, to refer to a narrow pedestrian-only street, often covered or between
closely spaced buildings. A larger, often only partly covered but exclusively pedestrian
shopping area is in Britain also termed a shopping precinct or pedestrian precinct.
In recent times, as more modern facilities are built, many early ma lls have become
largely abandoned, due to decreased traffic and tenancy. These dated and deteriorating
"dead malls" have failed to attract new business and often sit unused for many years until
restored, or demolished. Unique examples of architecture and urban design, these structures
often attract people who explore and photograph them.
Until the mid-1990s, the trend was to build enclosed malls and to renovate older
outdoor malls into enclosed ones. Such malls had advantages like temperature control.
Since then, the trend has turned. Now it is fashionable to build open-air malls again,
and some enclosed malls have literally been ripped open, such as the Sherman Oaks
Ga lleria.
Text 3. De partment store
A de partme n t s tor e organizes its goods by departments, such as women's clothes,
home furnishings, electronics, and the like.
Department stores range from collections of elaborate, fancy shops to practical outlets
for ordinary merchandise. They differ from ordinary stores principally because of their size
and range of merchandise.
There are a number of classes of department store. Discount stores, such as Kmart,
Wal-Mart or Target were sometimes called junior department stores in contrast with more
full-fledged stores like Sears or Macy's.

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