Which ancient civilization pioneered the world's first known standardized store layout, with uniform shop dimensions and organized by product categories in their main marketplace?

Long before modern shopping malls and e-commerce, ancient civilizations developed sophisticated retail systems that would influence commerce for millennia. From the grand bazaars of Mesopotamia to the organized market stalls of Rome, these early retail environments utilized principles we still study today. This trivia explores how ancient civilizations approached store layouts and customer experience - revealing that many 'modern' retail concepts have ancient origins.

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Ancient Rome, with its precisely measured tabernae (shop stalls) in the Forum markets
Ancient Egypt, with their temple-adjacent marketplaces arranged by crafts guilds
Ancient Greece, with their stoa arcades dividing merchants by import vs. domestic goods
Ancient China, with their government-regulated marketplace quadrants during the Han Dynasty