A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a large indoor shopping center, usually anchored by department stores. The term mall originally meant a pedestrian promenade with shops along it, but in the late 1960s, it began to be used as a … See more

The International Council of Shopping Centers, based in New York City, classifies two types of shopping centers as malls: regional malls and superregional malls. A regional mall, per the International Council of Shopping Centers, is a shopping mall with … See more

Forerunners to the shopping mall
Shopping centers in general may have their origins in public markets and, in the Middle East, covered bazaars.
In 1798, the first … See more

Food court
A common feature of shopping malls is a food court: this typically consists of a number of fast food vendors of various types, surrounding a … See more

In the United States, Persian Gulf countries, and India, the term shopping mall is usually applied to enclosed retail structures (and is generally abbreviated to simply mall), while shopping center usually refers to open-air retail complexes; both types of facilities … See more

Vertical malls
High land prices in populous cities have led to the concept of the "vertical mall", in which space … See more

Europe
There are a reported 222 malls in Europe. In 2014, these malls had combined sales of US$12.47 billion. This represented a 10% bump in revenues from the prior year.
U.K. and Ireland See more