Busy Shopping Mall

As soon as the doors to the mall are opened, and the escalators turned on, early morning shoppers rush in. The entire building is buzzing conversations as people go in and out of stores, laden with wish lists, and shopping bags. The cafeteria is already serving breakfast and the smells of freshly baked pastries and roasted coffee tug at your senses, as mellow music caresses your ears.

A shopping mall, shopping center/centre, shopping arcade, shopping precinct, or simply mall is one or more buildings forming a complex of shopsrepresenting merchandisers, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to walk from unit to unit, along with a parking area – a modern, indoor version of the traditional marketplaces. As traders moved into more spacious shops in the early 19th century high streets developed, but wealthier people (who could afford to travel to city centres for pleasure) started wanting shelter from rain, so shopping arcades were developed. With new innovations like escalators these evolved into shopping centres and with the rise of the automobile these evolved into shopping malls.