The commercial equivalent of a
bedroom community. Just as a bedroom community would be a suburb or area with mostly apartments and houses and little to no commercial activity, a
shopping town would be a suburb or area with mostly
indoor malls, restaurants, and strip malls without any housing in sight.
"My parents took me to the nearest
shopping town to buy a new
cell phone for my Dad, and my Mom and I browsed through the other stores while
we were there."