In Waveland, Mississippi, a quaint street of shops and trees called Coleman Avenue is nothing but rubble.
Yossi Cohen owns B Kosher, a small kosher supermarket on Brent Street, Hendon, which is a typical suburban high street full of small shops that need all the help they can get to stay afloat.
We were walking along a wet Edinburgh street of pubs and sandwich shops, hemmed in by the construction of a new tramline.
The family lives in Mahavir Enclave on a 6-foot-wide lane off a decrepit street lined with shoe shops, dispensaries and jewelry stores.
Beyond the familiar axis of Oxford and Regent Streets, London plays host to a huge variety of shops, one-of-a kind boutiques and street markets.
Like Harajuku, Sugamo has a famous pedestrian shopping street, but its shops are popular with seniors instead of teens.
It was in a cheaply constructed, boxlike, one-story building on a desolate street of bars, car-repair shops, and empty lots.
High-end street-wear shops throw in a carefully edited selection of Converse sneakers.
And even when a hot new title comes out, High Street shops find that their profit margins are under threat from supermarkets offering cut-price deals.
China, where coffee shops have become a fixture on city street corners, is one of the company's great success stories.
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Cad and Dandy is a tailor out of London with a location on Savile Row, a street famous for it numerous high-end suit shops.
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"But attracting an additional 1, 000 people to the town can only be a good thing for the shops and businesses on the high street, " he said.
Chocolate with a very high cocoa content is increasingly being stocked in High Street shops, having largely been sold by specialist or artisan chocolatiers in the past.
The city's Oxfam store, and other neighbouring shops in New Bridge Street, were damaged in a fire on 16 December.
And the area as a whole still relishes its ethnic, multicultural, bohemian, seedy-chic image a hotch potch of quaint antique shops, market stalls and vibrant street life.
As the craft and organic food shops on the high street intimate, the area has a history of quiet radicalism.
Main Street is a horror: there are whole rows of boarded-up shops, and doors behind heavy bars and grills, pad-locked shut.
Most of the shops on Main Street, save for Billy Bobs Bar and a fitness centre, are boarded up.
Topping the list of little-people attractions here is a simple stroll along lively Commercial Street , where various fudge, taffy and trinket shops compete for attention with street musicians and drag queens promoting their shows.
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The Edinburgh City Council's refurbishment of The Assembly Rooms building in George Street, includes restoring its ballroom and music hall, with shops and a restaurant planned for other smaller spaces.
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One of the oldest shops in England is bucking high street trends and competition from supermarkets thanks to a team of Norfolk volunteers.
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Main Street shops support our communities and create jobs, yet they are losing business because a loophole allows their online competitors to avoid collecting sales tax.
The whole old city of Berne is The main street stretches from east to west across the city and is filled with a wide variety of shops.
Handsome pastel-coloured houses, independent shops and art galleries, and ramshackle fishing huts line the High Street, while a sweeping shingle beach offers big-sky views.
The street was dotted with discount stores, souvenir shops and electronics kiosks, as well as a number of locations that stayed vacant for years.
However, the days when second-hand book shops were the only place to find a book you could not get in a high street store are long gone.
Market Street and the Ballydugan Road areas of the town were the worst hit, with three shops and a pub affected.
The Local Government Association says the plans would also remove council's powers to refuse applications from street traders based on how many shops and traders are already at work and risk turning high streets into a free for all.
To celebrate the opening, Vacheron is hosting a month-long American Heritage event at its new store, on Madison Avenue and 64th Street. (The store is the latest entry in what is becoming a veritable row-house of watchmaker shops along the avenue.) The Heritage event will put on public display notable historical watches and acquisition narratives from their owners.
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