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Life in the USA Public Services I Shopping
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The Downtown Shopping Area
The downtown areas of cities have traditionally featured department stores, specialty stores and some discount stores. In many cities, however, the inner areas have decayed while the best and most convenient shopping has moved to the suburbs. The centers of the largest and most vital cities, like New York, still have some department stores and many specialty stores, often extremely expensive and fashionable. Other areas of cities have stores selling low priced, low quality goods to low income people.
Smaller towns and the business districts of suburban communities will have main streets
filled with stores of various types. The largest store here might be the five and ten or a
discount chain drug store. Depending upon the size of the town, you'll find one or more shoe
and clothing stores, a hardware store, a beauty salon, perhaps a book/stationery store, a
restaurant or two, and a variety of other types of retail establishments.
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