With no sign of urgency, they meander among homeless panhandlers, past stores like hemp-peddler Avatar Imports and Mama Chola's Pagan Pantry.
It runs under bridges in dire need of repair and past grocery stores with few groceries.
Ann Taylor factory stores offer past season best sellers from the Ann Taylor stores at discounted prices and are extensions of the brand in the outlet environment.
In the report, the Labor Department noted the loss of 350 jobs on average in department stores during the past four months in contrast to specialty stores.
Exxon-Mobil figures said its revenue for all of 2005 was 371 billion dollars, and that would move Exxon-Mobil past Wal-Mart stores as the biggest U.S. company by sales.
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Many stores stay open past midnight so eager customers can get their hands on it.
He pushes the empty barrel past clothing boutiques, candy stores and shoe shops into the kitchen of a high end Brazilian restaurant.
Over the past few years, its stores have been offering a wider range of salads and fruit as well as premium strength coffee.
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And as we've seen all across the country this past year, companies, stores, churches, schools, individuals are all stepping up to support military families.
Simon, owner of 325 shopping centers in North America and Asia, has replaced more than 60 department stores in the past decade with new retailers.
U.S. retailers of all stripes super-sized their stores over the past two decades after big-box chains demonstrated the benefits of being larger than the competition.
Papa John's, which has opened 850 company-owned or franchised stores in the past two years, may not have the variety of Donatos, but it makes a darn good basic pie.
Among companies, the wealth may be shared more than in past years, as big stores like Wal-Mart increase their selection of digital TVs and other products to better compete with traditional electronics retailers.
But if several recent studies are to be believed, including a report of one from MKM Partners that found a 0.6 percent increase in the price of 86 everyday items at Walmart stores during the past two months alone, inflation has already arrived.
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Revenue in China grew by 20% after the company opened 11 new stores there during the past financial year.
Some of the best-performing food markets in the past few years have been convenience stores, and supermarkets are starting to notice.
Games will be chosen based on the quality of the game, past download performance in other app stores, and the strength of the game developer.
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In the past four years, hotels, grocery stores and trucking companies have sprung up here.
Penney who in the past offered coupons for redemption in their stores.
Over the past 12 months, sales at jewelry stores are up 6.48%.
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In the past, national retailers believed they needed 250 stores across the country to reach the full population.
Ms Daly said thousands of people from Northern Ireland have been travelling to Glasgow and other Ikea stores in the UK over the past few years.
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Crammed with more than eight million objects collected over the past 250 years, the museum's stores are a vast repository of centuries of human history, and human achievement.
With the rise of online shopping the chains did not need as many stores as they did in the past, a trend that looks set to accelerate this year.
Over the past few years, U.S. department stores have faced stiff competition from mass merchandisers and specialty retailers.
"Bricks-and-mortar stores only know what the customers in their stores have bought and returned in the past, not what they've looked at and tried on, " she says.
Grand Street has lost furniture and clothing stores, among others, in the past six years, according to Artineh Havan, executive director of the Grand Street Business Improvement District.
And Abercrombie plans to close 180 under-performing U.S. stores, after already shuttering 135 in the past two years.
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