20 Facts About Shopping That Will Impress Your Friends
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- The first shopping mall, The Arcade, opened in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1828.
- The average American household spends about 9% of their income on clothing and footwear.
- The world's largest mall is the New South China Mall, located in Dongguan, China. It has over 8,000 stores but it's largely empty.
- The first department store, Bon Marche, opened in Paris in 1838.
- Black Friday is the busiest shopping day of the year in the United States.
- Amazon is the largest online retailer in the world, with over 150 million active users.
- Americans are said to spend an average of $700 per year on impulse purchases.
- The earliest known marketplaces date back to ancient Mesopotamia around 2500 BCE.
- The first shopping cart was invented in 1936 by Sylvan Goldman.
- Cyber Monday, the Monday after Thanksgiving, is the busiest online shopping day of the year.
- Shopping is the second most popular activity on the internet, after email.
- The first online shopping transaction occurred in 1994 when a man in the United Kingdom bought a Sting CD from a website.
- The average American household spends about 5% of their income on electronics.
- The first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, opened in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1916.
- The average American household spends about 7% of their income on eating out.
- The world's first retail catalog was published by Montgomery Ward in 1872.
- Shopping addiction, also known as compulsive buying disorder, affects an estimated 6% of the population.
- The first shopping center, Country Club Plaza, opened in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1922.
- The average American household spends about 3% of their income on home improvement.
- The world's first shopping mall, Westminster Arcade, opened in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1828.
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