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Office buildings and commuter trains and coffee shops are today’s battlefields.
Another $50 billion is needed in telecommunications infrastructure if Myanmar is to make full use of digital technology to leapfrog stages of development – for example, by using mobile banking or e-commerce to avoid the cost of building physical banks and shops, and to extend health and education services to even the remotest villages.
BDS activists have picketed Jewish-owned businesses – from single shops in Glasgow to the retail giant Marks & Spencer – while making many university campuses increasingly uncomfortable for Jewish students.
This means that average sales, measured in US dollars, by supermarkets, beverage companies, department stores, telecoms, computer shops, and Chinese motorcycle vendors grew at comparable rates in these countries.
Global challenges grow, while the agendas of international summits contract, reinforcing the myth that they are mere talking shops.
Poor traders like Rosalia want real shops, and for some, Namibia Beverages, the local bottling operation of Coca-Cola, is answering the call with sturdy iron cabins that are spacious, portable, and easily secured.
In the retail sector, which employs a huge number of Japan’s unskilled workers – the so-called “mom and pop” shops – Japanese productivity is now 25% lower than in Western Europe.
The shops, restaurants, theaters, and museums around the event space in Piccadilly Circus all reported next to no business during the 17 days of the Games.
To see the gleaming skyscrapers and array of shops serving affluent young people is to appreciate the change that has occurred in just a few decades.
Supermarkets in the surrounding towns have driven the smaller shops out of business.
But shops and showrooms cannot be transformed into tourist attractions, whose capacity will remain limited until enough time has passed to build new hotels, recreational facilities, etc.
Public transport was halted, trains to and from the city were stopped, shops and business closed, and citizens were told to stay home.
Many countries enacted regulations in the early 1970s to protect existing small shops against competition; as a result, the development of more modern distribution systems was delayed.
They set shops and banks ablaze.
European grocery shops are full of products from Israel, but how often do you see Argentine beef or other goods?
Therefore, the Fed and the ECB must continue to tend to their own shops and leave it to the currency markets to set the exchange rate.
While denying much of what subsequently happened, Chinese officials did reveal the scale of the riots: 422 Chinese-owned shops partially or completely burned, more than 200 million yuan ($28 million) in damage, 325 people injured, and 13 killed – all of them Han Chinese.
The Netherlands, which is popularly believed to have legalized cannabis use along these lines, has in fact tolerated only small-scale retail sales of marijuana in a limited number of coffee shops in its larger cities.
Already, there is a growing number of shared 3D printing services, enabling you to print something of your own design or use (a customized version of) designs that you can find in online catalogues or order through 3D design shops.
Over time, these print shops will replace thousands of stores carrying millions of items, some of which sit around for months waiting to be bought.
Word processors are no longer just word processors; they are one-stop shops for creating all manner of content, from graphs to webpages.
The deal was signed and almost everybody was happy: passengers who fly cheaply; the airport, where the number of shops increased along with the number of passengers; the local community, where new jobs were created.
In an interview last summer, he depicted a world in which people would fly free and airlines would charge airports in exchange for the millions of passengers they deliver to their shops.
How did an international chain of coffee shops position itself to play a major role in upending not just how payments are made but also the business model of established banks?
These women are Amsterdam’s leading tourist attraction (followed by the coffee shops that sell marijuana).
Unfortunately, those drug makers then take advantage of developing countries’ weak or poorly implemented legislation and corrupt officials to pass their products through local supply chains and into shops.
But in 1975, while Mao still lived, the Cultural Revolution still raged, class politics still held sway, and there were no private cars, shops, advertisements, or private property, I arrived in Beijing.
Urban centers worldwide revolve around shops, whether on main street or at the mall, with many consumers viewing shopping as a leisure activity.
During recessions and booms, you can feel the changes in quality and number of waitresses in restaurants, in the size of staffs in shops, in the availability of cleaning services.
The first, following the collapse of the USSR, was almost cataclysmic – nothing in the shops, the country in bankruptcy, all savings lost.
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