Based on a slimmed-down, text-only Web format, the site will offer bus schedules, restaurant listings, stores and games.

The center offers a supermarket and other neighborhood-oriented stores and services.

Downtown, a short walk away, was "the city", offering live theater, fancy stores, parades and spectacles.

"They have to offer something other than just stores."

The town infrastructure quickly developed, offering public education, a hospital, general stores and other amenities, even a newspaper.

When we left, they offered horses and great stores of supplies, but we took none of them.

That structure will also offer stores at street level, and on its lower level.

Shops and malls offer stores, movie theaters and restaurants.

I offered him money, stores for the winter... but, no, he must have caribou.

And when the retailers offer better selection and easier-to-use stores, it draws even more consumers on line.