Bite has presold 5, 000 pairs to outdoorsy stores like REI and shoe shops like Shoes-N-Feet.

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The family lives in Mahavir Enclave on a 6-foot-wide lane off a decrepit street lined with shoe shops, dispensaries and jewelry stores.

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He pushes the empty barrel past clothing boutiques, candy stores and shoe shops into the kitchen of a high end Brazilian restaurant.

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These are the nail salons, dry cleaners, and shoe repair shops that make up a very large but completely fragmented market.

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Less touristy than Soho, Nolita (Mott Street between Houston and Broome Streets) has lovely little clothing, shoe and accessory shops carrying up-and-coming designers.

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It is trying to make its stores more inviting by opening shoe salons inside its shops, highlighting its footwear collections.

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In the first half of 2009, not generally considered a bright spot for American retail, buyers of fashion footwear spent almost twenty per cent more through online-only channels than they had the previous year, according to the NPD Group, a market-research firm, while sales at shoe chains, department stores, and stand-alone shops were down about eleven per cent each.

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