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The Origins of the Shopping Mall
In the early days, developers were thinking of it as a place mostly for white housewives with children. The Gruen transfer is an idea that shopping stops being something you need to do and starts becoming like an entertainment thing. It's more about shopping changing from being a task into a pleasure or you're at the mall and you have your list of errands but you've kind of forgotten about the list and you're just browsing.
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