http://blog.chineseoutpost.com/2006/04/24/the-sm-shopping-center-and-wal-mart-in-qingyang/ An American who taught in China in 1993-94 returns for a visit in 2006 with his native Chinese wife and their two pre-schoolers. Sat, 05 Jun 2010 07:10:53 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.chineseoutpost.com/2006/04/24/the-sm-shopping-center-and-wal-mart-in-qingyang/comment-page-1/#comment-40 she_ina83 Thu, 04 May 2006 08:29:55 +0000 http://blog.chineseoutpost.com/2006/04/24/the-sm-shopping-center-and-wal-mart-in-qingyang/#comment-40 SM actually originated in the Philippines. It started originally as a small shoe store (SM means ShoeMart, I think) and grew into this mega shopping Malls sprouting all over the Philippines (almost every city in our capital has an SM Mall. The one in your pictures looks very much like SM Megamall, especially the facade and it's huge too. SM actually originated in the Philippines. It started originally as a small shoe store (SM means ShoeMart, I think) and grew into this mega shopping Malls sprouting all over the Philippines (almost every city in our capital has an SM Mall. The one in your pictures looks very much like SM Megamall, especially the facade and it’s huge too.

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