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, shoerepair 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.
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