Most of the shops on Main Street, save for Billy Bobs Bar and a fitness centre, are boarded up.
Last March, a fire in the Hatibagan market, one of the oldest markets in Kolkata, damaged most of its shops.
She wants most of the coffee shops to be closed down and a different sort of licence to be issued - an identity card for Dutch cannabis users, so that foreigners would be kept out of the shops that remained.
Lovers of good cuisine can be thankful for the collapse two years ago of Maria's, one of Hong Kong's most famous chains of cake shops.
So I set out to visit two of the most reputable bike shops in the area, money at the ready, in the dead of Black Friday.
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Longer hours work to the advantage of the most efficient shops, normally the larger ones, drawing sales away from smaller stores.
The most obvious advantages of online shops are that their costs are lower and they are less constrained for space than their physical counterparts.
"The reality of the Indian market in general is that the most of the electronics are bought at individual shops, maybe because of the nature of the buying behavior of the Indian market itself, " said Gurvinder Singh, from Global Gadgets, an Apple dealer.
That deal was for opening Martha Stewart mini shops in most of Penney's stores this spring.
Penney announced a partnership in which it would open Martha Stewart mini shops in most of its stores, beginning this spring.
Beale Street is packed with bars, restaurants, shops and most of all live music venues, with the sounds spilling into the street nightly.
Despite the destruction of Han businesses in 2008, many if not most of the city's shops, even in the old Tibetan quarter around the Jokhang, are run by Han Chinese.
Having sold these, the trader then usually spends most of his profits in South African shops.
We also discussed battery life and competing phones that come with physically larger batteries (especially the Droid Razr Maxx), but Vice President of Phone Strategy Bjorn Kilburn claims that for most customers going into the shops, power consumption is not on the top of their lists.
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"The great thing is, if one of these shops doesn't feel it's getting the most out of this location, they can potentially move to another part of the country with a vacant bit of land, without having to close down or dismantle a thing, " says Wade.
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, for example, has established itself as one of the most globally trusted talking-shops, with offices in Beijing, Beirut, Brussels and Moscow, as well as Washington though it has yet to fulfil the vision of its founder, Andrew Carnegie, who wanted it to abolish war.
From the biggest ad agencies in the world to the most cutting-edge digital idea shops and deliverers, digital media has become one of the most cost-effective methods of reaching an audience.
Though roses are one of the most common flowers in our florist shops, we Americans hardly ever eat them.
Furniture sellers, whose health depends less on seasonal sales and more on the overall state of the economy than most high-street shops, have been hit hardest.
And most of Coney Island's boardwalk bars, shops and restaurants are now open to sell cold beers, tchotchkes and fried clams to tourists and New York's most quirky characters alike.
And most businesses and shops and major employers likewise sort of gravitate to these rail nodes.
Finally, the town of Stowe is one of the most charming in New England, with shops, restaurants, and activities for all ages.
The faded, vintage-inspired logos give items the look of being around for decades while the silhouettes and fabric content have the style and substance that is in sharp contrast to the acres of brightly colored synthetic pieces found in most campus shops.
One of the most popular tongba spots in the city is the Small Star Restaurant, located on an alley full of shops selling cloth and cotton thread, just off Thahiti Square, one block south of the tourist district, Thamel.
Nike gets most of its sales from giant retail chains, not skate shops, but the contretemps was enough to make Nike uncool with the teenage skateboarding crowd.
North of Imerovigli, Oia, the highest village on the island is the most romantic and the busiest with its cluster of restaurants and shops.
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Bus services were paralysed and shops, schools and businesses remained closed in most of the Telangana region on Monday.
Thus, the job growth comes from more of the same stuff for the most part, more barber shops, restaurants, retail shops, etc.
The book's success is attributed to bloggers and the sharing of book reviews and recommendations on social media, as well as old-fashioned word of mouth advertising in physical coffee shops, and most probably at the school gates.
Most shops were still on high streets, but the opening of the Abbeycentre in Newtownabbey saw the trend for out of town shopping malls continue to grow.
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