Editing Luton (section)

===Shopping===
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[[File:Luton Mall.jpg|thumb|right|[[The Mall Luton]], the main shopping destination in Luton's town centre.]]
The main shopping area in Luton is centred on [[the Mall Luton]]. Built in the 1960s/1970s and opened as an [[Arndale Centres|Arndale Centre]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/6621|title=As We Were – Luton 1926-1976|website=East Anglian Film Archive}}</ref> construction of the shopping centre led to the demolition of a number of the older buildings in the town centre, including the Plait Halls (a Victorian covered market building with an iron and glass roof). Shops and businesses in the remaining streets, particularly in the roads around Cheapside and in High Town, have been in decline ever since. George Street, on the south side of the Arndale, was pedestrianised in the 1990s.

The shopping centre had some construction and re-design work done to it over the 2011/12 period, with a new square built to be used for leisure events, as well as a number of new food restaurants. Contained within the main shopping centre is the market, which contains butchers, fishmongers, fruit and veg, hairdressers, tattoo parlours, ice cream, a flower stall, T-shirt printing and the market's original sewing shop for clothes alterations and repairs as well as eating places.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://lutonindoormarket.co.uk/index.php/shop-and-eat/|title=Shop & Eat {{!}} Luton Indoor Market|language=en-US|access-date=20 March 2019}}</ref>

Another major shopping area is [[Bury Park]] where there are shops catering to Luton's ethnic minorities.