Shopping Malls
The Mauling of America
The design of malls to entice and manipulate certainly works. According to
calculations by the Harvard economist, Professor Juliet Schor,
people in the United States spend 3 to 4 times as many hours per year
shopping as West Europeans. Nearly two-thirds of America's retail
trade takes place in malls. (For further reading see: Juliet Schor, The
Overworked American, New York, 1991.)
