Just a few years ago there was only a few department stores and small bazaars, but now there are many super-stores, mega-malls and markets where you can buy just about anything you need.

几年之前，仅仅有少数百货公司和小的集市，但是现在有许多超级商店、超大购物中心和市场，在那儿你能差不多买你需要的任何东西。

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But the era of unbridled growth for mega-malls, the automobiles, and highway miles was already ending before the Great Recession.

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The post-WWII emergence of low-cost high-performance automobiles combined with an enormous build-out of highways enabled the era of mega malls to co-locate hundreds of stores in millions of square feet of space making shopping more convenient and for many, more social and fun.

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For retailers the demographically-designed mega malls drove traffic.

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