Since then, the company has been busy buying up corner-shop funeral parlours and crematoria.

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Barings' top management could have won prizes as upper-class twits but should not have been allowed to run a corner-shop, let alone a bank.

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In many countries mobile money has been blocked because operators do not have banking licences and their networks of corner-shop retailers do not meet the strict criteria for formal bank branches.

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Just up the block in the ornate, shop-filled Strand Arcade is Corner Shop, a Sydney stalwart known for its tightly edited international collections (Marc Jacobs, Isabel Marant, and Benah).

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The corner space was long-inhabited by Biography Book Shop, which Marc Jacobs International purchased back in January 2009.

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So you know, maybe not the corner of the coffee shop with the PA-on-a-stick sort of thing, but enough good - you know, enough of a good room to shine but that you really are making a connection with people that's very direct.

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The winner of my informal poll on where to get the best ice cream was nearly unanimously Juice Bar (12 Broad Street, 508-228-5799), a small corner shop in Nantucket town that deservedly has a line snaking out its door and around the corner during high season.

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Once he found a three-piece suit wadded in a litter basket on a corner near a dry cleaner's shop.

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If you're looking for the reggae section at HMV, you have to go through games, past the remaindered books, then into the T-shirt section, then past some weird gadget shop - and you eventually find yourself by metal and reggae, hiding in a corner just behind.

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All that is a long way from the one-man tool-and-die shop Stronach opened in 1957 in Toronto, where he kept a cot in the corner for sleeping.

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With a pencil moustache and hennaed comb-over, the owner, David Wong, presides from a desk in the corner, eyes darting around the shop as his underlings measure, consult and jawbone with the customers.

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