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By: Isabel Strack

The most popular mall in America is the Mall of America. This mall has endless options to shop with 520 stores. There are also many different places you can eat with 50 different restaurants.

They have great entertainment including a movie theater, an aquarium, escape room, Crayola Experience, and an amusement park inside the mall. The amusement park has 24 rides including a roller coaster that goes around the enclosed atrium of the mall. The aquarium holds 1.2 million-gallons and has sharks, stingrays, giant sea turtles, and many other creatures. There is a glass tunnel that can go from one end of the aquarium to the other, which is around the same length as a football field.

The Mall of America is huge so in case you ever get lost they have these directories that show you where to go.

Here are some more facts about the Mall:

The Mall of America can also be called the MOA.
The MOA is the largest mall in the U.S. it has more than 2,779,242 million feet of shops, entertainment, and restaurants.
This mall is one of the most visited tourist destinations in the world, as it annually attracts over 40 million visitors.
It first opened in 1992, which was on the site of something previously called Metropolitan Stadium, where the Minnesota Vikings and Twins teams once played.
Around 4 out of 10 visitors that go to the Mall of America are tourists. Almost more than twice as many people as the world’s largest amusement park, the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World have visited the MOA.

Some of the original plans for this mall included an indoor submarine ride and a convention center, but all of these plans later were eliminated due to cost. It was co-developed by the Ghermezian family who lived in Edmonton, Canada. This family also developed the largest shopping mall in North America called the West Edmonton Mall.

The MOA is very large so if you’re visiting it might be nice to request a free visitors kit before you go.

For more infromation, please visit :

https://www.travelchannel.com/interests/shopping/articles/top-10-us-shopping-malls

By: Grace Lopez

Target

Target is a really popular place to shop. Target always has really nice clothing, home decor and more. It’s also possibly a grocery store to buy food as some people think it could be really expensive or kind of cheap. But Target would be such a good recommendation to buy home decor or clothing items.

Walmart

Walmart is a really good grocery store, you can almost find anything in Walmart, but they also sell some really good clothing, home decor and way more. Walmart could be more on the cheaper side but their item qualities are really good and anyone can also shop here.

Cub Foods

Cub Foods is mostly an only Minnesota grocery store. It’s a good store because it offers really good products and very reasonable prices. They are pretty close to everywhere, and that is really convenient too.

Lunds and Byerlys

Lunds and Byerlys is a good store because you can have a really good shopping experience. They have a lot of fresh produce, special foods and a lot of bakery items. And what’s good about Lunds and Byerlys is that everything is well organized.

Hy-Vee

Hy-Vee is quite a lot like Cub Foods but Hy-Vee is also such a good store to shop at. It offers a lot of services like a pharmacy, groceries and some household items, but what is a little special about Hy-Vee is that there is a gas station and some popular food options.

Aldi

Aldi is a good store because they also really focus on their high quality products at very low prices, so that’s why it’s a really good place to shop at. A fun little thing at Aldi is that you will need a quarter to get a shopping cart so you should always be prepared with a quarter to shop.

Trader Joe’s

Trader Joe’s has very unique foods that you probably can’t find anywhere else. They also have very high quality products and service and their prices are very very affordable for anyone. They also have really nice produce and more.