Yes, if impulse buying tends to be a problem staying out of places where you can buy is a good way to avoid the stimulation to do so. Find other entertainments.
I know I'm not the only American who says "shopping center." Shopping center is the more general term. Malls are shopping centers, but not all shopping centers are malls. A mall is a shopping center with many stores enclosed under one roof, generally. However, a mall can also be a shopping center with separate stores under separate roofs, all in an area with pedestrian-only plaza around which the stores are centered. Then there are open shopping centers with no common roof and usually common shared car parking in front of them. Those shopping centers are often called strip malls, as the buildings tend to be layed out in linear fashion. Usually they share a walkway that links the stores, door to door. However, in the last 25 years they are often built in a U shape, all cozying around a parking lot (car park, alexjc?).
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