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With every recession, many shops on Main Street disappear; and, over time, new shops – generally more successful – appear.
During the 1970’s, Germans went overboard, confusing capitalism with self-service shops.
This explains why Spahn, a rising star in the governing Christian Democratic Union (CDU), could write an article for the influential German weekly Die Zeit attacking “elitist hipsters” for speaking English, and bemoaning the proliferation of English-language menus in restaurants and coffee shops.
A few days after the deadline of April 15, bulldozers moved in, flattening the shops, previously dismantled by the departing Afghan merchants.
So they rushed to gas pumps, to jewelry shops, and to creditors to repay loans.
Whenever I arrive in Moscow, I am impressed by its new shops and buildings.
It is insisting that Greek shops open on Sundays, even though German ones do not.
The move was met with howls of protest from those who argue that the entry of large hypermarket chains like Carrefour and Walmart will devastate the small shops that currently dominate India’s retail sector.
But this shift may also open an opportunity for small shops.
In other words, small shops may be more than capable of holding their own against big retailers if they adapt to the new environment.
Indeed, small shops’ advantages are so compelling that Tesco is investing heavily in expanding its network of convenience stores, Tesco Express, thereby effectively mimicking the traditional model of local grocery stores.
And women spend more of their income on their families, which men do not necessarily do (rural toddy shops in India, after all, thrive on men’s self-indulgent spending habits).
UnionPay, the market leader, is expensive for retailers to install, and many shops prefer cash to avoid tax.
Harnessing this technology to expand financial inclusion would be economically empowering, particularly for smallholder farmers and merchants in rural communities, who could use their mobile phones to access market-price data, transfer cash, make retail purchases, deposit income, and pay bills – all while tending their fields or shops.
Kosovo's Constitutional FictionPRISTINA, KOSOVO: One year after NATO's war over Kosovo, renewal is to be seen everywhere: in reconstructed houses; in the many shops opened in the ground floors of ruined buildings; in the budding cultural, intellectual, and journalistic life of Pristina.
Video rentals, bookstore chains, pharmacies, home improvement stores, electronics and camera shops, catalog stores, and more: all went the way of the horse and buggy.
Barbers, clothes shops, fruit stalls.
ASEAN meetings are sometimes criticized as “talking shops,” but this time dialogue and strategic leadership are needed immensely.
This view no doubt reflected a casual empiricism based on the mom-and-pop shops and small post offices that English dons saw when going outside their Oxbridge colleges.
Given that Futenma is located in a densely-populated urban area that includes more than 100 schools, hospitals, and shops, critics contend that the Osprey would endanger the lives of thousands of island residents.
For too long, the virtues of a globalized world have been expounded from the comfort of self-contained talking shops.
Last summer, more than 150,000 women were arrested in Tehran for wearing “bad veils,” and barber shops have been given specific instructions on acceptable hairstyles for young men.
Individual buying of gold goes far beyond the airport shops and other places where gold coins are sold.
The shops and office buildings are bustling with activity.
In addition, retailers’ margins are being squeezed, owing to competition from online shops.
For example, spiny dogfish is partly substituting for cod in many European fish-and-chip shops.
Entrepreneurs are allowed to set up shops, but they do not feel legal security, because they are harassed by the authorities, with an arbitrary tax system and various licenses in the whole of the CIS.
Third-party data aggregators are already allowing customers to compare prices across online and brick-and-mortar shops.
The economic emancipation of women had to wait till after World War II, when permanent male labor shortages – the result, incidentally, of Keynesian full-employment policies – pulled ever more women out of domesticity and into factories and shops.
We also acknowledge that the consequences of an airplane crash are liable to be far more catastrophic than, say, those of a cyclist clipping a curb on his way home from the shops.
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