Smaller corner shops known as Mercalitos which devote some shelf-space to subsidised goods are also closing down.
Just as corner shops give way to supermarkets, so single-screen cinemas may soon be overpowered by megaplexes.
Other immigrants have unlicensed corner shops or hawk their wares on the streets: their modest success fuels jealousy.
Jack Ma uses a website, Alibaba, to sell goods from China's thousands of corner shops to other businesses.
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And mixed-use developments, with apartments over corner shops, mean people don't have to get in the car for every errand.
But India's retail sector is dominated by small corner shops whose owners oppose the entry of foreign retailers that Mittal would like to tap into.
The move has been strongly opposed by tens of thousands of small businesses and corner shops who fear they would be put out of business.
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While some independent corner shops may close in areas near the supermarket-owned stores, Mr Gotham said shoppers should benefit from cheaper prices and better quality goods.
Opposition parties, led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), say opening the retail sector to foreign direct investment will put tens of thousands of small businesses and corner shops out of business.
Unless its voters and its new mayor can lift themselves above the fight for individual corner shops, it risks becoming merely a cosy resort where the new economy's manic entrepreneurs go to drink their over-engineered coffee.
The telecoms worker, who is in his 50s, said he did not like seeing what he considered pornographic magazines at corner shops, but told the judge this would not influence the way he assessed the facts in the case.
Customers flocking to corner-shops typically buy goods they need for a limited period and for a limited value.
Sitting on a corner lot, the home is within walking distance of many shops and restaurants, CBS Television City and The Grove, a popular retail and entertainment complex.
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Just around the corner is Cafe Ladro, one of Seattle's best coffee shops.
Tucked deep into the back corner of a shopping mall, past the Tommy Bahama and Coach shops, sits the tiny, well-laid-out Whalers Village Museum.
But anti-smoking advocates say restricting sales to adults-only smoke shops would stymie illegal sales and hinder youths purchasing cigarettes through an adult who buys them at a corner store.
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