These larger stores are termed anchor store or draw tenant.
Kmart estimates that the store draws about 25,000 customers a week.
Actually, the store has been drawing big crowds year round.
Wallingford's population is 42,860, but the stores draw from surrounding towns as well.
Now as then, the store draws most of its customers from Harvard and the many other nearby universities.
Well, not exactly - the store can draw on a potential inventory of more than 10 million pairs, with every style in every possible size.
In other areas, particularly Texas, the stores draw many customers who are simply facing tough economic times.
It didn't take long to understand why the store drew such a crush of customers.
The store draws more than two million visitors a year.
Opponents say that the store will draw too much traffic to their quiet residential side streets.