Shopping Centers
- SM City Iloilo – is the biggest shopping mall in the Western Visayan Region and second to SM City Cebu in the entire Visayas. Iloilo City is the only city in the country (outside Manila) which have numerous SM branches in one city like SM Department Store in Downtown area, two SM Supermarkets ( Jaro and Alta Tierra), and SM Hypermarket ( Jalandoni, Jaro).
- Robinsons Place Iloilo is a shopping mall owned and operated by Robinsons Malls. Another Robinsons Mall is currently constructing in the District of Molo, Iloilo City.Iloilo City is home to the first department store in the country, the Hoskyns & Co., which opened in 1897.
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Famous quotes containing the words shopping centers, shopping and/or centers:
“The most important fact about our shopping malls, as distinct from the ordinary shopping centers where we go for our groceries, is that we do not need most of what they sell, not even for our pleasure or entertainment, not really even for a sensation of luxury. Little in them is essential to our survival, our work, or our play, and the same is true of the boutiques that multiply on our streets.”
—Henry Fairlie (1924–1990)
“The new shopping malls make possible the synthesis of all consumer activities, not least of which are shopping, flirting with objects, idle wandering, and all the permutations of these.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic and entire system of social control, by the threat of example as effective over the general population as detention centers in dictatorships, the image of the madhouse floats through every mind for the course of its lifetime.”
—Kate Millett (b. 1934)