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West Edmonton (Alberta) Mall, at 5.3 million square feet the largest enclosed mall in the world, is trying to make the center easier for customers to navigate with a handheld Mobile Mall Map that uses Palm technology to show a floor plan of the center’s 800 stores and services. … Starbucks entered the Mexican market with a store in Mexico City (it plans 100 more), selling specialty coffee drinks for 50 pesos ($5). The daily minimum wage in Mexico is 43 pesos, or $4.30, according to Reuters. … Westfield invited Sarah Ferguson, Britain’s Duchess of York, to appear at the opening of its Westfield Shoppingtown West County, St. Louis, on Sept. 20. Ferguson, a Westfield spokeswoman for more than a year, is paid to appear in advertisements for the company. … Target recalled a line of clothing after fears that some of the garments contained a code for “Heil Hitler,” media outlets reported. The clothes contained the digits “88,” sometimes a symbolic code among white supremacists for “HH,” as the letter is the eighth in the alphabet. … Residents of Tullytown, Pa., had to boil their drinking water for a few days after a private contractor at Levittown Shopping Center breached a feeder line from the Delaware River, causing fears of water contamination, reported The Philadelphia Inquirer. … The Timothy Plan, a Winter Park, Fla.-based mutual fund group that claims to use “moral responsibility” in its investment decisions, issued a statement charging Wal-Mart Stores with the “anti-family promotion of pornography” because the retailer stocks Cosmopolitan magazine on its shelves, which the organization calls a “soft-core pornographic magazine.” The fund will no longer invest in the retailer.

— Ian Ritter