Department stores ____ big stores, usually with a few different floors, in one building. They sell lots of different things – toiletries, clothes, shoes, toys, jewelry, food … Harrods in London ____ the biggest department store in Britain, and it is probably the most famous. However, the first department store ____ ____ in 1877 in Philadelphia in America by John Wanamaker. Many other shopping ideas ____ ____;by Wanamaker. He ____ modern price tags and the first restaurant in a store. The shopping mall. Many shopping malls ____ built every year – but how did they start? They are the modern version of traditional market places. The J.C. Nichols company built the first mall in 1922 in America near  Kansas City. Since then, shopping malls ____ ____ ____ all over the world. In the 1980s huge malls____ ____. For example, the West Edmonton Mall in Alberta, Canada, ____ more than 800 stores, a hotel, a theme park, a golf course, a church, a water park, and even a zoo! Mail order catalog;____ ____ ____ bought anything online? Well, before the Internet existed, people often ____; things from a mail order catalog. The catalogs ____ pictures and descriptions of the things you could buy; When people ordered and paid for things, they ____ ____ to their house by the postal service. Aaron Montgomery Ward ____ out his first catalog in 1872. You could only buy things from his catalog – his first store ____ ____ until 1926! The shopping cartGo to any supermarket and you’ll see lots of shopping carts. People ____ them all the time; Sylvan Goldman ____ the first shopping cart in 1936. Goldman was the owner of a chain of food shops and he ____ to help people carry their shopping. He ____ two wire baskets and wheels to a chair to make the first cart! Since then, the design ____ ____ ____ a lot!

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