To be sure, the "electronic mall," as the Pentagon calls the project, had sales of more than $50 million in 1999, and expects them to grow substantially this year.
No words about the price, but it's not surprising if you see one in a electronic mall with a price tag around 500 Yuan.
The Internet, with its endless Web sites, is already a miraculous storehouse of information, an instant communicator, a new medium, a vast electronic shopping mall, a link to Wall Street.
It's Latin America's largest electronic shopping mall, the bank claims, with links to more than 360 online stores selling everything from dog food to CD players.
With the huge Christmas season just ramping up, the Nook readers will hit the de facto mall electronic store just in time.
Here we're fixated with low-density greenfield sprawl, "low-emission vehicles" and shopping malls with electronic gizmos.
Its special trick is the ability to translate the human traffic in the mall into electronic sounds that passers-through hear.
At the entrance, a steward suggests you to wear the mall's electronic bracelet.
Like some modern-day Rip Van Winkle, he is confounded by electronic vending machines, overwhelmed by mega-malls and prone to using expressions like "gee whiz" and "holy cow".
For young people who are working long hours in sweatshops, malls and factories, discos, drugs and electronic arcades provide a more visceral relief than does a slow-paced wayang performance".
