There are 43,600 shopping centers in the country (1,800 are enclosed).Each month 188 million adults buy things at shopping centers.
Shoppers spend an average of $64.80 per trip to the mall.
The average customer visits a mall three times a month for about 75 minutes.
Shopping centers collected $43 billion in state sales taxes in 1998.
Shopping malls employed more than 10 million people last year.
The massive Mall of America in Minnesota draws more people per year than Disney World, Graceland and the Grand Canyon combined.
Source: The International Council of Shopping Centers