General Growth also excels at convincing competing specialty shops to be situated together.
His hardware, tools, and materiel come from specialty shops, including the artisanal hardware store elsewhere in the same plaza.
Popular among both locals and tourists, these toys are sold in fairs, markets and specialty shops around the world.
More unusual ingredients, such as tamarind paste and aromatic curry leaves, can be found in Indian grocery stores or specialty shops.
For example, racket sales at specialty shops rose 8% in revenue in just the first two quarters of 2010 and tennis ball shipments rose by 2.7.
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Today, while wooden molds and rolling pins are still available from specialty shops, more common (and much easier to care for) are resin versions cast from historic designs.
Online sales account for only 1% of retailing, and the chains and specialty shops that dominate commerce in the real world are quick to use their leverage to control e-tailing, too.
If that's not enough, there are specialty food shops and superb restaurants dotted all over the city.
Specialty coffee shops, most java aficionados agree, debuted in New York in 2001 with Ken Nye's Ninth Street Espresso in Alphabet City.
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Traditional advertising agencies are quickly catching up to and, in some cases, outpacing specialty ad shops when it comes to digital and direct marketing capabilities.
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Today they've been overtaken by Russian and Chinese consumers, who demand luxury goods from designer boutiques but also cheaper ware available in department stores and specialty fur shops.
Consolidated sent out letters to some of the 1, 000 specialty skateboard shops around the country, urging them not to sign on with Nike, and ran appeals in skate magazines, such as Thrasher and Big Brother.
One of his recipes calls for readers to track down transglutaminase, an enzyme that can bond proteins together, sold by some specialty chef supply shops.
Japan's plan to weaken the yen is creating opportunities for U.S. importers of Japanese goods, especially mom-and-pop shops selling specialty goods.
JCPenney treated analysts to a tour of a remodeled store last week, showing how the chain means to reinvent its stores into a mini-mall of boutique shops with specialty and exclusive merchandise.
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His plans are creating new opportunities for U.S. importers of Japanese goods, especially mom-and-pop shops that sell specialty goods like kimonos, collectible Japanese erasers and ginger dressing, who have been hammered over the past decade by the yen's relentless rise.
Elsewhere, those struck by Cupid will make purchases at discount stores (39.6%), department stores (33.2%), specialty stores (22.9%), floral shops (19.6%), jewelry stores (11.2%), specialty clothing stores (7.5%) and catalogs (2.6%).
Eventually the company hopes to have 100 shops in each of these stores thereby creating a specialty department store.
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By mid-2012, Starbucks will test some specialty stores on the West Coast, with the units about the size of its coffee shops.
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