A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a North American term for a large indoor shopping center, usually anchored by department stores. The term mall originally meant a pedestrian promenade with shops along it (that is, the term was used to refer to the walkway itself which was merely bordered by such shops), but in the late 1960s, it began to be used as a generic term for the large enclosed shopping centers that were becoming commonplace at the time.[1][2] In the U.K., such complexes are considered shopping centres (Commonwealth English: shopping centre), though shopping center covers many more sizes and types of centers than the North American mall. Other countries may follow U.S. usage (India,[3] U.A.E.,[4] etc.) and others (Australia,[5] etc.) follow U.K. usage.