Shopping patterns changed. Instead of patronizing downtown stores, people in the suburbs went to large shopping malls outside the city and closer to home.

购物的模式改变了，人们不再光顾市中心的商场，在郊区居住的人们选择去城市之外家附近的大型购物中心去购物。

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When asked in May how much the economic environment has changed their shopping patterns, only 27% said it's changed their behavior "significantly, " down from 34% who said so last August.

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