In this context, malls operators will exempt shopkeepers from rent while stores are closed to comply with authorities' rules on social isolation, according to local shopkeepers association Alshop.
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Shopkeepers and law enforcement may not see it that way.
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BRITAIN, Napoleon once supposedly scoffed, was "a nation of shopkeepers".
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Shopkeepers like the new mix, as the residents provide footfall.
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But it is bad luck for the shopkeepers of Thane.
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They kidnapped a hotel owner and extorted money from shopkeepers.
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Shopkeepers welcome customers by using diminutives of their first names.
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No one — aid workers, police officers, shopkeepers, doctors — is spared.
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Shopkeepers have to decide when to leave their current stores.
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Residents and shopkeepers survey the destruction in Beira on March 17.
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In their minds, they say, they are independent artisans and shopkeepers.
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But some shopkeepers aren't aware of the warnings, or ignore them.
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Landlords, doctors and shopkeepers are learning to love their new customers.
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On the main road, shopkeepers came out to wave and smile.
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Many small shopkeepers did not survive the weeks when Paris barely stirred.
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Some shopkeepers said stocks were running out after days of panic-buying.
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And if shopkeepers cannot pay the rent, eventually their landlords suffer too.
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If it sees something noteworthy, it alerts shopkeepers via a connected app.
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On Salary Alley, most shopkeepers are from the coastal province of Shandong.
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Some Bangladeshi shopkeepers have hired Rohingya to run shops within the camp.
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Quick to downplay the lawlessness—looting, rioting, burning cars, beating shopkeepers, etc.
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Doctors and shopkeepers dedicated entire meals to just bread and sliced watermelon.
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Some shopkeepers felt safe enough to reopen small stores and market stalls.
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Shopkeepers close their business in Wuhan, ahead of the Lunar New Year.
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Shopkeepers said sometimes they would shop for small items like hair bands.
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Traffic is worse in the 21-square-mile city, say residents and shopkeepers.
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Shopkeepers feared groups of tall, laughing Sudanese who traveled together to do everything.
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In Mumbai, for example, female shopkeepers cannot work as late as male ones.
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The demand is so low, shopkeepers and local markets have stopped stocking soap.
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There are also shopkeepers, firefighters, surfers, mothers, daughters, friends, and so many others.
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That has boosted the bottom lines of shopkeepers at home and from abroad.
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Most are farmers, though there is a growing number of shopkeepers and artists.
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Shopkeepers were going into lockdown, slamming their gates shut with customers still inside.
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There they are sold to shopkeepers, who in turn sell them for $5 each.
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Both are also peddling the technology to over a million smaller shopkeepers in China.
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Most shopkeepers in Daegu, however, have removed portraits of Ms Park from their walls.
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She said shopkeepers are sometimes confused by her desire to purchase a stranger's cake.
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In parts of Africa people grumble about competition from Chinese shopkeepers or construction firms.
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Then Gibson's sued Oberlin, claiming that the college defamed the shopkeepers and disrupted business.
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They were pragmatic and trade-minded people: a nation of shopkeepers, in Napoleon's phrase.
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Epic, meanwhile, has set its sights on a new set of rivals: digital shopkeepers.
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Some shopkeepers said they were running out of stock after days of panic buying.
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In typical English style the shopkeepers are stiff upper-lipped about their new arrivals.
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It was not technology that was stopping shopkeepers in Nairobi's slums from having electricity.
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By afternoon, shopkeepers were still busy sweeping broken glass and debris from their stores.
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The shopkeepers greet us with a fondness and familiarity that is also historical apology.
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Some worried Colombian shopkeepers are demanding the border be closed to protect their businesses.
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Wary shopkeepers were warned by an anonymous caller that the women were untrustworthy thieves.
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Cabdrivers, shopkeepers, hotel doormen: everyone had an urgent opinion and pressed me for mine.
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Everybody was at it, from sign writers and shopkeepers to gardeners and movie-makers.
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The dead men were fishermen, shopkeepers, the two teenage students and an Islamic teacher.
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His buddies, many on the streets themselves, looked after him, as did some downtown shopkeepers.
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In 2014, he started approaching local shopkeepers and restaurant owners and cultivated them as partners.
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They chatted with the shopkeepers and cuddled up beside the tree to listen to carols.
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Shopkeepers who once competed over prices now fight to choke their rivals' vulnerable supply lines.
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Amancio Ortega dropped out of school at 14 to begin running errands for local shopkeepers.
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We walked together with the Tang family for about nine hours, stopping cleaners, commuters, shopkeepers.
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Ahead of the Barcelona rally, many shopkeepers had shuttered their establishments amid concerns about turmoil.
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Shopkeepers have relegated Japanese products to the bottom shelf or removed them from view altogether.
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Shopkeepers, artists and street workers are back at their daily routines, albeit in a daze.
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I would run into drunks and boza sellers and shopkeepers closing up for the night.
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Muslims are doctors, lawyers, law professors, members of the military, entrepreneurs, shopkeepers, moms and dads.
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One miner's job generated many others in the Jiu Valley: schoolteachers, shopkeepers, doctors and nurses.
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There is hostility, too, from shopkeepers, who say that vendors dodge taxes and undercut their prices.
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In the suburbs of some British cities Muslim shopkeepers are forced to close before Friday prayers.
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Shopkeepers complained about the lack of goods and materials that the people needed for daily life.
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As the convoy continues up London Road, local shopkeepers come out to celebrate on the streets.
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After all, cruise ships are like floating villages and they need everything from shopkeepers to sommelier.
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But in a manner reminiscent of those cranky shopkeepers, it plays by its own undisclosed rules.
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The country's millions of shopkeepers and small traders wield tremendous power in votes and campaign donations.
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I spoke to some food shopkeepers, who ran first- and second-generation family businesses in Chinatown.
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The shopkeepers hoped the military operation would allow many of the Syrian refugees to return home.
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His YouTube videos and tweets have drawn in farmers and shopkeepers, democracy activists, writers and businesspeople.
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Officials have also proposed that Tokyo shopkeepers keep doors open to let the air-conditioning out.
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Receipts are printed in both currencies; shopkeepers make change with a mix of dollars and pounds.
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President Tayyip Erdogan will make a speech to Turkish shopkeepers and traders in Ankara (1100 GMT).
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Officials say their targets aren't the shopkeepers but the landlords who rent illegal space to them.
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Every time I walked into a store, I found the shopkeepers glued to a television set.
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Residents and shopkeepers in Kisumu complained of damage being done by protesters to property and livelihoods.
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Short blocks, shopkeepers who know their customers, and families that stick around for generations foster intimacy.
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Pictures also showed shopkeepers were on strike in other cities including Arak, Shiraz, Tabriz and Kermanshah.
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Pierre Poujade rallied shopkeepers and artisans against the elite in 1956, and won his party 52 deputies.
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She skinny-dips, she doesn't wear corsets or stockings, and she sasses snotty shopkeepers Pretty Woman-style.
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Shopkeepers dropped candy in, children chimed "thaaaaank you" in unison and moved on to the next spot.
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At roadside stalls on its outskirts, shopkeepers sell furniture together with lifeboats; washing machines alongside emergency flares.
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SUDIRMAN SAID is smiling and shaking hands with shopkeepers selling everything from meat carcasses to herbal tonics.
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Over the years, I got to know several shopkeepers, most of whom hailed from throughout rural China.
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From childhood, I was taught never to question anyone in authority, from teachers and doctors to shopkeepers.
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Pakistan's Geo television reported a protest by shopkeepers and other people in the area after Saturday's attack.
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It will allow shopkeepers, restaurateurs, and hotel owners to refuse service to gay customers on religious grounds.
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In late January, the criminal group reportedly told shopkeepers that the journeys to China had been suspended.
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The government is mounting a campaign against price-gouging, periodically ordering shopkeepers to sell at lower prices.
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The report identified the victims by name and described them as fishermen, shopkeepers and an Islamic teacher.
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"I have borrowed so much that the shopkeepers have stopped lending to my family now," he said.
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After the first two mortar strikes on Nusaybin last week, shopkeepers and others rushed to the scene.
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And the shopkeepers in bars and stores stared absent-mindedly out the windows or checked their phones.
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Shopkeepers said the staff and owners had either left town or were preparing to defend their houses.
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It currently runs 28 &aposBest Price&apos Modern Wholesale Stores — selling to small shopkeepers — across the country.
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In Ningbo, shopkeepers nearby considered the North Korean restaurant and its pretty but secretive waitresses a curiosity.
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They find an agent (many double as shopkeepers) to deposit their cash or collect their micro loan.
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The shopkeepers looked into her mouth, poking and prodding her until one of them led her away.
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Earlier this month, we reported how some shopkeepers were "selling" phone numbers of girls at a nominal fee.
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On the streets of Park Slope, they found busy parents and indifferent shopkeepers, and also plenty of opinions.
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This is what inspired me to make these shops more visible — by giving a voice to the shopkeepers.
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When shopkeepers demanded only "real" money, he might launch into the non-reality of time and space, too.
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Rome, shopkeepers' association Confesercenti holds assembly; Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and Economy Minister Roberto Gualtieri attending (2225 GMT).
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According to Turkmen residents and shopkeepers, Kurdish shops and houses were burned down, forcing Kurds to move out.
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The son of shopkeepers, López Obrador grew up in the waterlogged plains of the southeastern state of Tabasco.
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So do the motorcycle-taxi drivers, hustling for rides; or the countless small shopkeepers, stocking near-identical goods.
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Shopkeepers in Fangjia complained that they had not been given enough time before their stores were bricked in.
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This includes policemen in the Iranian Kurdish provinces, who openly stated they would not act against protesting shopkeepers.
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And yet most GP practices are "artisan shopkeepers in an age of Amazon", according to one Whitehall official.
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Or shopkeepers use a license they've had for decades, even though they've traded many turtles in that time.
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A group of Bangladeshi shopkeepers and other migrants helped confront the mafia that Mr. Salvini promises to eradicate.
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But if the greenery must be enjoyed in passing, it still adds elegance, say brokers, shopkeepers and residents.
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But local shopkeepers association, Alshop, argues that paying rent while malls are shut is not a "feasible" option.
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But many people oppose the sellers' presence; shopkeepers express particular frustration, saying the manteros are drawing away customers.
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With the 13 abolition of slavery, migrants flooded in from the east: Indian indentured laborers and Chinese shopkeepers.
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Countless stores are visited where shopkeepers attempt to discern your tastes as they trot out garment after garment.
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Paris has laws to protect street life; stores are closed on Sundays, and intricate regulations protect small shopkeepers.
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But it is the shopkeepers who get hurt, said Vladlen Maximov, president of the Coalition of Kiosk Owners.
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Some, I was told, were shopkeepers who took the day off after a busy weekend catering to tourists.
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Daniel is the son of Korean shopkeepers and a romantic who loves poetry; his future is dreamy and bright.
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Some shopkeepers and traders have responded by offering free goods and services to anyone with proof they sold dollars.
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Perhaps a dozen small shopkeepers sell paint, varnish and hardware to the artisans, as well as to passing trade.
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Restaurant owners and shopkeepers in Chinatown make final preparations ahead of the start of the Chinese Lunar New Year.
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Ethnic-Chinese shopkeepers who have been in the region for generations are as alarmed about the trend as any.
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Nor is it widely known that millions of ordinary Britons, even humble shopkeepers, owned shares in the slave trade.
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Some shopkeepers hung up portraits of Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, hoping his image would keep the excavators at bay.
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Ahead of an upcoming general election, politicians will be counting on votes from the country's millions of appeased shopkeepers.
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I felt as if I should say something — tell the shopkeepers that this is not how you treat people.
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For all the mannequin pouting on the label's Instagram page, the shopkeepers are alive and have warm, full smiles.
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But some shopkeepers respond by not selling at all, believing prices will eventually rise again as the sanctions bite.
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The streets were filled with revelers, even as shopkeepers complained they were not as numerous as in past years.
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Shopkeepers were still tending to their shops, and electricity was functioning for at least a few hours a day.
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Ask the shopkeepers for their suggestions for the most invigorating and entertaining games that can include all your roommates.
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"For many years, we have lived in peace," said Sanjeewa Samarasinghe, one of the few shopkeepers open on Monday.
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"Now this operation is happening and it is one heart, one hand," said Mr. Ozer, one of the shopkeepers.
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Ultimately, after a fresh search, they bought a home in Westchester in Armonk, where they know shopkeepers in town.
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If there is a tale of two Williamsburgs, Ms. Russo occupied the realm alongside the waiters and the shopkeepers.
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Coming from all walks of life, more than a hundred people — shopkeepers, beggars, car salespeople — saw Salahuddin as saintlike.
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"We want to reveal the dark side of the cleanup," said Di Yanjie, one of the shopkeepers who protested.
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With tests and temporary closures of limited portions of the road, however, its citizens and shopkeepers slowly came around.
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In Lusaka, Zambia's capital, shopkeepers moan about cuts to fuel and electricity subsidies, made in anticipation of an IMF deal.
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Shopkeepers and restaurant owners in particular recall that businesses—as well as schools—were closed for months during the unrest.
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Umm Kulthum (picture below) was so famous her monthly radio concerts prompted shopkeepers to close their stores and tune in.
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Prosecutors presented 29 witnesses, including police and shopkeepers who found the victim's body, and "everybody supported the prosecution", said Verma.
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Competing for their custom, local shopkeepers put out signs saying "Take it now and pay when you get your bonus".
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Shopkeepers will furnish "eyes upon the street," to use the famous phrase of the critic Jane Jacobs for neighborhood deterrence.
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The jails are filling with shopkeepers arrested for unpaid debts; the talk on the streets is of homes being burglarized.
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I wanted to tell the story of gang violence through the voices of residents, shopkeepers, families and gang members themselves.
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He said he had met secretly with the shopkeepers in the police chief's office and urged them to press charges.
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"The Taliban collect money from the people, unfortunately, be it shopkeepers or anyone, in the name of tax," he said.
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I would become cosmopolitan and sophisticated, skipping across Europe and impressing local shopkeepers with my breezy fluency wherever I went.
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Dozens of shopkeepers have been promised refunds on their leases, but those protesting said they had yet to see them.
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With residents and shopkeepers used to exchanging pleasantries in the street, many of them counted the victims among their friends.
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Since shopkeepers pay for the privilege of a storefront, Alibaba's fees were more likely to rise than sales or jobs.
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The shopkeepers, it seems, are as happy to be patrons of the arts as they are for the extra foot traffic.
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Shopkeepers stand outside their premises to watch; there is no use working, though the more opportunistic sell union flags to spectators.
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Shopkeepers at the resort, who are not employed by Disney, also found it curious that Disney failed to discuss what happened.
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And phones themselves can serve as payment cards: with another click, users display their own bar codes, which shopkeepers then scan.
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"After shopkeepers refused to give us polythene bags, I now myself bring a cloth bag to take groceries home," she said.
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Norway's conservatives are deeply wedded to the idea of car ownership, and shopkeepers worry that fewer cars might mean fewer customers.
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Small shopkeepers in Italy have long sought to overturn Monti's reform, saying their businesses face unfair competition from the big malls.
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They are laws enacted by the noble shopkeepers who rule us, to compel the nation to deal at their shop alone.
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They eased their vehicles down a near-vertical road into town, past kids nestled in doorways and shopkeepers closing down businesses.
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Meanwhile, at the iconic Hawa Mahal - a five-storied pink sandstone palace - shopkeepers sell scarves, bed sheets and bangles to tourists.
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Another significant advantage of the platform is that it frees shopkeepers from the traditional constraint of minimum quantities for wholesale prices.
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Muslim families lived on the two floors above us, but the top floor family was Hindu, as were the shopkeepers below.
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When my grandmother died unexpectedly three years ago, I left Paris for the funeral without warning any of my local shopkeepers.
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Barney Greengrass, born in the late 19th century, was one of the earliest shopkeepers to spread the word and the sturgeon.
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After the protests were joined by teachers, shopkeepers and government workers, Mr. Lescot stepped down, and a military junta took control.
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Business was bad, and if the shopkeepers ordered anything, it was in small quantities and they refused to pay in advance.
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Most shopkeepers are originally from Henan, a poor, densely settled central province whose population of 94 million rivals that of Egypt.
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The more enlightened shopkeepers have installed ramps or will grab one from inside the shop for disabled customers at the doorstep.
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Unlike elsewhere, we have seen little panic buying in our city because customers believe these shopkeepers will keep their shelves full.
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Like the shopkeepers on Chicken Street, Afghan contractors asked the Americans "How much?" and pocketed the bloated sums they were offered.
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Several shopkeepers in Dandong were watching Chinese soap operas, not the news, although other residents said they were paying close attention.
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In Hong Kong, shopkeepers say most buyers come from Russia, but they have had clients from western Europe, Africa and South Korea.
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"The cost of sourcing goods right now…we estimate we're cutting that cost by about 20 percent [for] these shopkeepers," he said.
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But some shopkeepers who use Square's payment system for their small businesses get the opportunity to lob questions at CEO Jack Dorsey.
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Standing outside the security barricades, thousands of average Poles -- farmers, students, teachers and shopkeepers -- filled the streets and greeted Trump with cheers.
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Worries over access to products have prompted some Iranians to stock up on rice, detergent and tinned food, residents and shopkeepers said.
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The shopkeepers attacked Hezbollah on national television for inspiring a slum clearance and redevelopment project that deprived them of their meager livelihoods.
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In the last month, a series of unmanned 'trust shops' have opened in Bengaluru, without any shopkeepers, cash machines or camera surveillance.
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Bassem Giacaman, one of the shopkeepers, said before the second intifada, his shop had revenue of $400,0003 a year, and employed 12.
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But this is merely economic cover for his real point, which is that the businesses of clerks and shopkeepers just aren't important.
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MUNCHIES went straight to the source for insight: the artisans and shopkeepers of the San Telmo street market in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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The shopkeepers make no distinction between the Kurdish militant groups in Syria and the P.K.K., which operates in southeastern Turkey and Iraq.
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Bored or frustrated pet owners or shopkeepers who can't sell their expensive pets may release them into the wild, Dr. Hauber said.
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She was among a dozen bored shopkeepers sitting on lawn chairs and stools, watching shows on their smartphones while waiting for customers.
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Up to 275 centimeters (26.1 feet 22003 inches) is considered manageable; shopkeepers know they have to elevate their merchandise and electrical appliances.
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Inside, her father spoke to the shopkeepers in a low voice while Little Sister watched the parade of vendors on the street.
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"How much do you want to pay?" is the question almost all shopkeepers on Chicken Street know how to ask in English.
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Shopkeepers thought it was too boring for kids used to loud and colorful toys, so James took the marketing into his own hands.
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Wearing big smiles and traditional full-length robes adapted for sports, they pounded through sleepy alleys past puzzled shopkeepers in Jeddah's historic district.
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"Mercurial," meaning unpredictable or impulsive, is derived from the Roman god Mercury, the god of shopkeepers and thieves, of travelers, and, yes, tricksters.
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In the Samaritan village of Kiryat Luza, on Mount Gerizim, shopkeepers happily sell beer and arak to both thirsty Palestinians and Jewish settlers.
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I — and I'm not trying to, by the way, suggest that President Trump is out breaking legs and — you know, shaking down shopkeepers.
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Far more numerous are the Chinese who have set off for Africa to set up their own businesses as shopkeepers, restaurateurs and traders.
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August 7, 2015: Shopkeepers sit at the entrances to their stores after their doors, and windows were blown in by a truck bomb.
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The new e-commerce platform "will bring win-win benefits to consumers, retailers and producers" and help 30 million small shopkeepers, Ambani said.
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"The situation is extremely tense at the moment, with many shopkeepers asking lots of questions but they don't have many answers," he added.
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In response, Hezbollah brought down the full weight of its vast apparatus — even apparently exploiting the Lebanese legal system — to silence the shopkeepers.
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Army officers arrived shortly after the killings and rounded up the shopkeepers and residents living near the site, said Nayeema Khatun, a resident.
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Footage from parts of the Grand Bazaar showed shopkeepers, ankle-deep in water, clearing the water out of their stores and the halls.
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Often, shopkeepers must pay extra to process credit card transactions, and that can cut into profit margins for small operations and local stores.
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The sit-in in Delhi, where CAIT is based, attracted just about 50 traders and shopkeepers by noon, according to a Reuters witness.
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Journalists have reported that many shopkeepers, motorists, and others have supported the protesters with handouts of water and even offers of financial assistance.
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Not true, say these European shopkeepers: Their places are updating the old American general store cracker-barrel approach, while making hygiene a priority.
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In the stalls of the Old City, shopkeepers ushered us into back rooms lined in carpets and pillows to drink glasses of tea.
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The government will not allow e-commerce firms' discounting practices to affect small shopkeepers, Goyal said, according to three industry executives in attendance.
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That morning the shopkeepers attended the funeral of one of the victims of the rocket attack, a 65-year-old tailor, Muzafer Aydemir.
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Shopkeepers on the island said they were sold out of essential provisions and had never seen residents prepare so thoroughly for a storm.
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Estimates vary from a few hundred to almost 3,000, according to an association of shopkeepers that was formed to protest illegal street vending.
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Before heading to the church, he walked through the Old City, speaking to shopkeepers and stopping by the Church of the Holy Sepulcre.
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But other local news agencies said that as many as 50 firefighters and shopkeepers could have been inside the building when it collapsed.
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And yet they went home and everywhere they went — their family, childhood friends, shopkeepers and restaurant servers — all of them brought up Trump.
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Walking through one of its litter-strewn back-alleys in a beret and overalls, he stops to greet friends and wave at shopkeepers.
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"We're arming ourselves with sticks, knives, machetes, and firearms to defend our assets," recounted William Roa, the president of the local shopkeepers' association.
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In response, local shopkeepers have created an "empty tourism" campaign, enticing visitors with images of uncrowded attractions, Emiko Jozuka reported for CNN Travel.
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It was only a few months later, after documenting a few shopkeepers in Montréal and Paris, that the project within this book was born.
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Extortionists now think twice before bullying shopkeepers, knowing there will be a flurry of media attention and police investigations, says its founder, Daniele Marannano.
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Walmart's hopes of somehow circumventing rules to protect local shopkeepers, which have long prevented most foreign retailers from opening stores, have been repeatedly dashed.
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With fresh foot traffic in London's shopping arcades, shopkeepers were desperate to secure new clientele, thus birthing the creative marketing strategy of window dressing.
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"I'm not trying to, by the way, suggest that President Trump is out breaking legs and, you know, shaking down shopkeepers," Mr. Comey said.
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The farmers, the shopkeepers, the restaurant owners and just about anyone else you might associate with small towns in rural America have gone missing.
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So he came up with dozens of financial security schemes that were promoted by the club of tradesmen and shopkeepers he formed in Philadelphia.
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" Retail's impending doom has been proclaimed for years, yet there's still these weird things called "stores" that customers "walk into" and talk to "shopkeepers.
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This has been a windfall for Ecuadorean shoppers living near—and sometimes not so near—the border, and for Colombian shopkeepers who serve them.
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Shopkeepers can change messages on their storefront windows from home, or movie theatres can adjust their showtimes and ticket availability from a distance instantaneously.
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Indians who spend more during festivals enjoy higher social status, which translates into tangible benefits, like getting better deals from shopkeepers on food purchases.
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Although many shopkeepers opened their doors today out of self-preservation, the ones I talked to said they quietly support the national work-stoppage.
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And I wanted to reflect the realities of life in Rivera Hernández through the voices of those living there — gangsters, residents, shopkeepers and families.
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He is in constant motion, running errands for shopkeepers in his neighborhood and helping his parents with their almost-legal and brazenly criminal enterprises.
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Banners draped over the streets — including some that the police had coerced shopkeepers into putting up — endorsed Mr. el-Sisi and the constitutional changes.
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That did little to assuage the fears of some shopkeepers as criminals organized heists on social networks and instant messaging platforms, such as WhatsApp.
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Many of the city's small shopkeepers are people who poured into the city during the transition to capitalism in hopes of making a living.
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Others described not being sure of the amount of money that shopkeepers handed back to them, afraid to lift up the veil to check.
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His new book The Guardians, published by Kehrer Verlag, is a collection of portraits from his journeys that capture shopkeepers in their places of work.
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Joana Naritomi at the London School of Economics estimates that revenues declared by paulistano shopkeepers jumped by over 20% in four years as a result.
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But aid-workers must have realised that, rather than spend hours checking up on grasping shopkeepers, it would be easier simply to hand out cash.
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Millions of shopkeepers across India also now accept Paytm, prominently displaying QR codes that can be scanned with the phone's camera to pay for purchases.
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For shopkeepers and restaurant owners, who make up the bulk of their earnings between June and September, the G7' s four days are a killer.
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Shopkeepers in Regeni's neighborhood of Cairo said there were no signs that police in the area had been questioning people since his disappearance or death.
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A lower-tech version is common after natural disasters, when shopkeepers raise the price of necessities like bottled water and batteries as supplies run low.
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At times, US personnel also make the decision to visit local areas for other reasons, such as to buy supplies and interact with local shopkeepers.
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Local shopkeepers have pulled together to repair power lines and keep telecom towers running, to feed public workers, and to procure diesel for backup generators.
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Small traders and shopkeepers, it said, will get new government pensions, and small businesses of all sorts will get government loans to help them grow.
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I had witnessed a normal Tuesday morning: school, studying for a test, daily chatter, guides, shopkeepers looking for tourists, and tourists looking at the sights.
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They are mainly formed of active-duty and retired police officers who assume control of the communities and extort money from ordinary citizens and shopkeepers.
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Even as the attack rattled shopkeepers gathered at a nearby tea shop, they voiced widespread support for Turkey's new offensive against Kurdish militants in Syria.
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I'm not forgetting the times friends have puked behind phone boxes, argued with shopkeepers or one notable occasion fallen asleep in a stranger's front garden.
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Shopkeepers in the area said the plane veered toward a large tree near the construction site to avoid hitting people and stores on the ground.
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Firefighters had battled the blaze for several hours as police officers tried to shoo away shopkeepers trying to return to collect their valuables, PressTV reported.
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In the labyrinth of Serekunda Market, just outside of Banjul, even the appearance of a camera can elicit loud protests from shopkeepers and shoppers alike.
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Amazon also maintains a program called Amazon Easy in India, as part of which it trains shopkeepers to guide first time internet users shop online.
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Shopkeepers bought scrap metal from its slopes and the ferula plants that grew out of the sand and could be ground up for medicinal use.
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Maclean, as in most of her works, plays all the characters herself, from bystanders to silver-tongued shopkeepers and from the guardian angel to Pic himself.
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He said bakers and other shopkeepers who did not want to take part in the scam complained to the Supplies Ministry, which subsequently began clamping down.
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Around the Muslim Quarter of the Old City, shopkeepers stock up on Ramadan essentials, including bright lights for decorations and Korans and prayer beads for recitations.
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The administration has also argued to the Supreme Court that it is legal for shopkeepers to deny service to LGBT individuals if they have religious objections.
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Small shopkeepers in Italy have long sought to overturn a 2012 bill that liberalised Sunday trading, saying their businesses face unfair competition from the big malls.
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It would let users find each other, pay digital and offline shopkeepers, or purchase a cornucopia of online services—perhaps one day using Facebook's own currency.
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"Modi shows how little he cares about ordinary people of this country - farmers, small shopkeepers, housewives, all thrown into utter chaos," said party leader Rahul Gandhi.
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But small shopkeepers, who often host ATMs in rural areas, say reducing the fees could make it too costly to run free machines in their stores.
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In the 19th century, newspapers appeared several times a day, posters covered exterior walls and pillars, and shopkeepers wrapped everything from fish to books in paper.
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Footage on Turkish media showed hundreds of books and goods floating in the water as shopkeepers submerged up to their waists worked to clear the area.
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Small shopkeepers in Italy have long sought to overturn a 2012 bill that liberalized Sunday trading, saying their businesses face unfair competition from the big malls.
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There is no wholesale market for most private enterprises, forcing shopkeepers to buy inventory at state retail prices or resort to trickery or the black market.
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With unemployment chronically high, those who do visit spend little on the town's distinctive turquoise pottery or the mass-produced knickknacks that shopkeepers hawk to survive.
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The National Commission on Human Rights report listed more than 200 suspected inciters and funders of the violence, including presidential cabinet members, legislators, businessmen, shopkeepers, farmers.
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The exterior walls of its whitewashed buildings are painted Bavarian-style with biblical scenes and imagery depicting the varying trades of the shopkeepers and restaurateurs within.
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But most remained closed on Tuesday as shopkeepers tried to understand how to reset prices in the new currency and buyers struggled to make the conversion.
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In December, provincial legislators unanimously passed a resolution calling for shopkeepers to stop saying "Bonjour-hi" when they greet customers and to say simply "Bonjour" instead.
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And a virtual city of employees — baggage handlers, TSA agents, pilots, flight attendants, shopkeepers, maintenance personnel and air traffic controllers — work at the airport each day.
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A senior police official said the bomb went off in a sack of potatoes, and that the victims included shopkeepers and customers at the vegetable market.
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They wanted to know what he planned to do about the Syrian shopkeepers who they said were undercutting their prices and driving them out of business.
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Mr. Resnick is allowing his shopkeepers to operate either rent free or for a nominal fee, since there aren't enough shoppers to keep the doors open.
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She introduced Arthur, whose parents were immigrant Bronx shopkeepers, to her mother's sophisticated Upper East Side world, where dinner guests might include the conductor Arturo Toscanini.
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Shopkeepers in the trade say setting off firecrackers on Diwali is part of an ancient Hindu tradition and the Supreme Court must respect the sentiments of Hindus.
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ADF has spent years cultivating high-profile religious freedom bills in statehouses while slogging through courts, particularly defending Christian shopkeepers who refused service for same-sex weddings.
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He ruled for the baker on narrow grounds, at the same time insisting that gay couples, like religious shopkeepers, deserve the right to be free from discrimination.
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In Kashgar (pictured), where separatist sentiment is strong among Uighurs and attacks blamed on terrorists have been particularly common, shopkeepers complain that the tourist trade has died.
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An article on Thursday about the conviction of Salvatore Perrone in the murders of three Brooklyn shopkeepers misidentified, in one instance, the weapon used in the killings.
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Practically the only part of a Trump stump speech aimed at faith-driven voters is a promise that shopkeepers will again be able to say Merry Christmas.
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But some of them have asked wealthier refugees and shopkeepers to pay regular taxes, saying the money will be used to fight back in Myanmar, refugees said.
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Along Java Road, Gucci-branded offerings for the dead disappeared from the shelves, as shopkeepers feared that their tiny businesses could collapse if subjected to a lawsuit.
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On tiny Lieyu, closer ties with the mainland have also had economic consequences, as the massive garrison has dwindled, diminishing a ready market for the island's shopkeepers.
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Several residents said the city either kept the buildings empty or turned them into cybercafes or day care centers, rather that rent them out to Muslim shopkeepers.
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On Thursday, the army ordered the shutdown of Harare's city center, shopkeepers told the local news media, but a presidential spokesman denied an order had been given.
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On Tuesday, Alshop emphasized that charging shopkeepers while malls are closed is not feasible, especially because the resumption of sales will most likely be slow and gradual.
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But workers have shown residents and shopkeepers written orders that made it clear the authorities want to clear the old hutong neighborhoods of unauthorized additions or extensions.
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Hundreds of Sinhalese including monks held a rally against the violence in Colombo on Friday, while many Muslim shopkeepers closed their doors in protest at the attacks.
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In fact, microcredit organizations are far from the only source of credit — people often take small loans from friends and family, or from local shopkeepers, for example.
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Shopkeepers near major attractions in Kyoto shared their observations of decreasing visitor traffic with local newspaper Kyoto Shimbun, Casey Baseel reported for Tokyo-based news site SoraNews24.
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India's small traders and shopkeepers had for years complained that e-commerce companies were engaging in predatory pricing and hurting the businesses of brick-and-mortar retailers.
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In al-Zahraa in eastern Mosul, shopkeepers swept away broken glass and neighbors were starting to interact again, days after Islamic State fighters were ousted from the neighborhood.
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Valentine's Day has in the past been usually preceded by a clampdown from the religious police, ordering florists and other shopkeepers to remove items associated with the festival.
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Earlier this month local officials told shopkeepers that the production, importation and sale of the burqa must end, and made them sign a document agreeing to the change.
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From Huguenot weavers to Jewish moneylenders to Indian shopkeepers, waves of migrants have long provoked a clamour about threats to the national character, job market or public health.
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The Trump administration has steadily expanded its argument that constitutional rights to religious exercise allow employers, shopkeepers, and medical professionals to ignore laws and policies that ban discrimination.
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By the 21.5s the going rate for pegs was tuppence a dozen, and shopkeepers would sometimes order them by the gross, exchanging them for goods rather than cash.
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Does the group merely want to protect religious creative professionals from sending messages they dislike — or does it actually want shopkeepers to legally discriminate because someone is gay?
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These interrupters patrol the streets on their beat, getting to know shopkeepers, neighbors— and building links with the young men and women deemed to be the highest risk.
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His grandfather, who had been "happy to eat one meal a day", had joined other local shopkeepers to form an association that gave them leverage over their suppliers.
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Vladimir Antaki has photographed over 250 small shopkeepers from around the world, including this portrait of Jainul Abedin at his bodega in a New York City subway station.
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However, shopkeepers working on the Chinese side of the border said the number of trucks carrying goods between the two sides had fallen in the past three days.
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MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian shopkeepers and traders affiliated to a local lobby group held scattered sit-in protests across the country on Monday against Walmart Inc's (WMT.
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In Santa Elena de Uairen, near the border with Brazil, shopkeepers and inhabitants formed vigilante groups to join police and soldiers after six shops were ransacked on Saturday.
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The UK is sometimes called a nation of shopkeepers, and soon mobile payments company Square may be putting that to the test in the search for new business.
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Three days of protests broke out on Sunday in Tehran's Grand Bazaar, with hundreds of angry shopkeepers denouncing a sharp fall in the value of the Iranian currency.
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Legions of small shopkeepers and manufacturers have complained about the paperwork involved in one of Mr. Modi's signature policies, the imposition of a national goods and services tax.
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Shopkeepers there offered differing accounts as to whether Mr. Li had manufactured reproductions, simply collected them or was in the business of repairing period clocks, as he said.
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In interviews in Lahore, newspaper sellers and shopkeepers said that military and intelligence officers had instructed them, sometimes politely but other times with force, to stop stocking Dawn.
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"I mostly buy things on credit from local shopkeepers," said Ghulam Jeelani, a hotel manager in Srinagar, who feared being laid off with no online bookings or transactions.
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Skeptical that authorities can protect them, shopkeepers in the Andean town of Garcia de Hevia in the neighboring state of Tachira have taken matters into their own hands.
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Then the company did something different: It provided village shopkeepers in pastoralist areas with training and low-end Android smartphones with which to do most of the work.
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NEW YORK An article on Thursday about the conviction of Salvatore Perrone in the murders of three Brooklyn shopkeepers misidentified, in one instance, the weapon used in the killings.
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The shopkeepers with the video cameras said any evidence was lost days after Mr. Regeni's disappearance, because the footage is wiped out automatically at the end of the month.
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This time, Barnes and fellow shopkeepers made a human chain; one man anchoring himself by a storefront and grabbing hands with another, allowing Barnes to get close to Knight.
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Approximately 80 percent of the nominees are new to politics – they include shopkeepers, mathematicians and a bullfighter – and reflect Macron's promise to move French politics closer to French people.
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The far right has pulled in some working-class voters, butmost of its supporters are petty bourgeoisie (like shopkeepers) or low-educated, fairly high-income people (like successful plumbers).
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The worry was that shopkeepers would use the changeover as an excuse to put up prices, particularly if doing so got them to a price ending in a "99".
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" But the British always seem to qualify global ambition with the kind of parochial preoccupations that persuaded Adam Smith in 1776 to coin the phrase "a nation of shopkeepers.
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It's that time of year again — when neighborhood kids will go door to door dressed as pirates, ghouls, and superheroes in pursuit of sweets from generous neighbors and shopkeepers.
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Consumers preparing to hole up at home are adding wine, beer and spirits to their list of must-haves, but shopkeepers worry it's just the storm before the calm.
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Last weekend, shopkeepers on the Champs-Élysées who had grown accustomed to shutting their stores and boarding them up had let their guard down and opened up as usual.
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Once they have a foothold in the community, militia members extort money from residents and shopkeepers (in other words, they demand payments that are partly for protection against themselves).
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Walking around the cemetery, brushing off the headstones, I tried to imagine the lives of those interred around me: parents and children, husbands and wives, pharmacists, shopkeepers and engineers.
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The experience of Korean-American shopkeepers in South Central wasn't hers to share; nor was the experience of Chinese workers brought to the United States after the Civil War.
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As well as the detainees for unrest, authorities have also rounded up about 20 shopkeepers for raising food prices illegally in a knock-on effect of higher fuel costs.
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As of now, the shopkeepers are still accepting the old 500 notes as a favor, and we have done most of our shopping either through those or on credit.
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Nowhere is the mood gloomier than among shopkeepers in Istanbul, Turkey's cultural gem and scene last weekend of the second suicide attack on tourists in the city this year.
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Salvatore Perrone, the man called "Son of Sal" by neighbors and who prosecutors said targeted shopkeepers in Brooklyn, was convicted of three counts of second-degree murder on Wednesday.
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"San Francisco supervisor Aaron Peskin added, "I've gotten plenty of complaints from residents and shopkeepers who are pissed off about the noise as well as the police state intimidation tactic.
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The measures especially spooked shopkeepers already struggling to stay afloat due to hyperinflation, government-set prices for goods ranging from flour to diapers, and strict currency controls that crimp imports.
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She adopted Skye when the dog was just three months old, and had been abused by local shopkeepers after its parents and siblings were run over by a passing vehicle.
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After Election Day, the city essentially slowed to a standstill, and on Thursday morning, the military was seen patrolling the streets downtown, telling everyone from shopkeepers to protesters to behave.
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" The popular Socialist politician added that there was a need to "define by law, the protections in order to prevent such services becoming an unfair competition to shopkeepers and artisans.
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The tags are topped up by shopkeepers using smartphones; 20 litres of water cost 0.50 dalasi (1 cent), and 85% of the payment is set aside to cover future repairs.
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A traveling clothing salesman was convicted on Wednesday of fatally shooting three merchants in Brooklyn, a series of apparently random attacks in 2012 that had shopkeepers on alert for months.
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The far right has pulled in some working-class voters, but most of its supporters are petty bourgeoisie (like shopkeepers) or low-educated, fairly high-income people (like successful plumbers).
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Hezbollah demonstrated its fear of dissent with its forceful reaction last October to unprecedented criticism from destitute Shiite shopkeepers in Hay al-Sullom, a neighborhood in its southern Beirut stronghold.
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IDLIB, Syria (Reuters) - Shopkeepers and residents in Syria's Idlib city have found relief from air strikes but remain wary after a ceasefire halted fierce government bombing against the rebel foothold.
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The new measures spooked shopkeepers already struggling to stay afloat due to hyperinflation, government-set prices for goods ranging from flour to diapers, and strict currency controls that crimp imports.
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He paid the raftsman and then disappeared into the marketplace of Ciudad Hidalgo where shopkeepers were rolling down their security gates, marking the end of another day at Palenque Pass.
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Britain — renowned for its pragmatism, its common sense, its political stability and its unabashed devotion to small business ("a nation of shopkeepers") — has become nearly unrecognizable to its European allies.
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Photographer Joan Tomas captured prostitutes, shopkeepers, immigrants and other residents of the Gothic and Raval - perhaps the most well-known districts in the exhibition - in stark black-and-white images.
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Mostly French speaking, these artisans, shopkeepers and artists were in no small part responsible for the look of the French Quarter — its ironwork, decorative plaster, its architecture and fashionable shops.
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While the falling value of the Canadian dollar has hastened the decline, shopkeepers and local officials also point to another culprit: tighter federal immigration enforcement over the past two years.
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The manufacturing sector is contracting; real estate and car sales are down; and farm workers, shopkeepers and other Indians report that a shortage of cash has made life increasingly difficult.
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Similarly, there is the prospect of stores building their own sites, although that comes with its own set of headaches that independent shopkeepers may be less inclined to deal with.
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Police cars and patrolmen were still at the site of the demonstration on Tuesday, but shopkeepers nearby said the crowd dispersed quickly after the Shuangyashan city government offered them money.
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The new measures have worried shopkeepers already struggling to stay afloat due to hyperinflation, government-set prices for goods ranging from flour to diapers, and strict currency controls that crimp imports.
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They've had to face shopkeepers ignoring their demands for money, they been forced to retreat after having bags of candy thrown them, and they've had shirtless dudes thwarts their devious plans.
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He grew up in a family of corn farmers and shopkeepers and had fled Pakistan three years earlier, after receiving death threats for his participation in a Kashmir separatist political party.
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Bob Davis, an official who represents the neighborhood for the ward where Mr. Jozwik's assault took place, said that the teenagers often ride bicycles, get drunk and hassle shopkeepers and residents.
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The Flipkart-Walmart deal awaits the approval of India's anti-trust regulator amid strong protests against the acquisition by bodies representing small shopkeepers and traders that are affiliated with the BJP.
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The report used photographs, reporting and interviews conducted in Myanmar and Bangladesh to reconstruct the final moments of the dead men, who were fishermen, shopkeepers, teenage students and a religious teacher.
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He shows me where, on the main street, he wants to install a storefront mosque, to call the Muslim shopkeepers to prayer, and where he wants to open a halal restaurant.
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Hundreds of vendors are sleeping in the streets of the Venezuelan border town of San Antonio, while the surge in hawkers on the Colombian side is stoking anger among local shopkeepers.
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"I am proud" of the shopkeepers, Leoluca Orlando, Palermo's mayor and an enemy of Mr. Salvini, said in his office, which displayed a painting and sculpture of St. Benedict the Moor.
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"Today, entire Pakistan, whether they are school children, college students, shopkeepers, labors or employees, all have gathered to show solidarity with people of Indian Occupied J&K," Pakistan's government tweeted Friday.
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Recently, the Kashmir Chamber of Commerce said the two-month shutdown had led to losses of more than $1.4 billion, as shopkeepers have protested the crackdown by refusing to restart trade.
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Whatever the reason, he fills "Insomniac City" with musings about his afternoon and evening peregrinations, in which he chats up shopkeepers, addicts, models, homeless men and poor kids in skateboard parks.
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OpenPose, a program developed at Carnegie Mellon, has been used by a Japanese telecom company to alert shopkeepers to customers whose movements supposedly signal that they are likely to steal something.
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Watching their savings dwindle and shopkeepers hold onto some of their goods, Iranians fear new sanctions will also see sharp rises in the price of food including rice, bread and dairy products.
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Since the party didn't immediately ostracize me for daring to make a choice in the game, I gained a little more confidence in rolling for simple actions: fighting enemies, talking to shopkeepers.
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In Agadez, about 6,000 people who were directly employed in the migrant economy are now jobless, the governor said, while countless others - shopkeepers, phone sellers, mechanics - have also seen their earnings fall.
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The knock-on effect of delayed payments to suppliers, as well as temporarily suspended tax bills that will eventually come due, are expected to push many small shopkeepers into bankruptcy, lawmakers say.
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Manufacturing generates lots of spin-off service jobs, from the accountants who audit the firm's books to the shopkeepers who sell the resultant goods or the restaurants that feed the factory workers.
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Shopkeepers tried to shore up their businesses on Saint Mark's Square on Friday morning - many said they had closed to customers 10 days ago when levels broke through the 110 cm threshold.
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The gangs prey on everyone, from shopkeepers to bus passengers, but are particularly dangerous for teenagers and young adults who face tremendous physical and sexual pressure to give in to the gangs.
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They were shopkeepers, teachers and musicians at home, and want to be these things again, or maybe become new things — if they can get education, training and access to the labor market.
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In the paranoid view of stodgy shopkeepers, the hoodie is to be feared for extinguishing individuality; in its politicized life, it mutes identity to signal alliance, not unlike a resistance group's uniform.
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After all, what harm was he doing other than allegedly stealing the breadsticks, denying honest shopkeepers of their livelihood and profusely littering the streets with his tobacco-laced, potentially tuberculous-ridden spittle!
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In an attempt to discourage whites from using the catalog, shopkeepers told them that Sears was a black company, and that was why it sold by mail — to hide its black face.
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Tensions have occasionally arisen, as black residents complain about mistreatment from landlords, shopkeepers, and the Jewish Civilian Patrol or Shomrim, a private Chasidic police force; while Jewish residents complain of being mugged.
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In posters across Srinagar, which began appearing in late August, shopkeepers have been asked to only open late in the evenings and early in the mornings to enable locals to buy essentials.
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On Lesbos, just a few miles (km) from the Turkish coast, fishermen, hoteliers and shopkeepers expressed concern that more migrant arrivals would further harm their island's reputation as a dream holiday destination.
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She said she did not know the nationalities of the shopkeepers and police were waiting for owners to come forward, so that they could open cases of violence and damage to property.
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The company has been compared to Palantir, which helps law enforcement agencies in the US. (Sarah Dai and Li Tao / South China Morning Post) Shopkeepers in India are protesting Amazon and Walmart.
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No sooner had its ink dried, though, some shopkeepers lashed out at the effort to police language, even as supporters said the move was necessary to help preserve the province's cultural identity.
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The Venda people had taken a break from their regular jobs as farmers, butchers, shopkeepers and teachers to come together and follow their nearly 200-year-old tradition: beating each other into submission.
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Even the spread of credit cards does not guarantee improvement: restaurant owners and shopkeepers often turn up the palms of their hands as they tell you that "purtroppo" the card machine is broken.
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" The Republican added that "there are so many other ways that law enforcement can be put to good use rather than to persecute harmless farmers and shopkeepers who are abiding by state law.
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In the 1970s, as the U.S. struggled through a deep recession, shopkeepers were constantly on the watch for stretched consumers looking to employ the so-called "five-finger discount," a euphemism for shoplifting.
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The drive against the mostly Muslim shopkeepers in Gurgaon during the Navaratri festival is the highest profile campaign since Hindu vigilantes targeted people engaged in the slaughter of cows, considered sacred to Hindus.
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Enterprising as a boy, Mr. Velez said he worked for Jewish shopkeepers on the Lower East Side, painting their window frames, fixing the plumbing, and earning money by turning on the Sabbath lights.
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Most of the city's cinemas draw a crowd of day laborers, shopkeepers, butchers, and unemployed people in search of a couple of hours of entertainment; tickets at Pamir cost less than a dollar.
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My job allows me to eke out a meager living among the many pilgrims and shopkeepers, incinerating the garbage these brave adventurers leave behind after they've purchased their latest spellswatches and plasma rifles.
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In this regard, it is not self-evident that being "Buddhist" or "Muslim" should be taken as the most salient facts about people who are many other things (Burmese, shopkeepers, farmers, students) besides.
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I talked to shopkeepers who distributed their goods to families in need, and to a Christian Syrian who stayed in northern Syria to ensure Christian representation in the P.Y.D., the governing political party.
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Those would be China's entrepreneurs — the farmers, shopkeepers, noodle stand owners and millions of others who delivered China out of the chaos of the Cultural Revolution and turned it into an economic powerhouse.
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The move establishes the $550 billion behemoth as an aggressive presence in the sluggish Australian retail sector, just as shopkeepers were hoping for a rush of sales over the important Christmas holiday season.
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The new venture is courting shopkeepers in many parts of India to use a handheld Jio terminal to help them better manage their inventory and order new stock from Reliance's network of wholesalers.
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Some of his own lawmakers were appalled when, discussing next year's budget on social media, he suggested that measures to curb tax-dodging be postponed to make life easier for shopkeepers and professionals.
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"I would go to the market in Haifa, and Arab shopkeepers would say to me, 'These things that you're saying, it gives the Jews a reason not to come shop here,' " Odeh recalled.
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Abu al Furat, a member of one Raqqa-based activist group opposed to IS told the BBC the victims were shopkeepers and local businessmen and he doubted they had been spying for Britain.
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KASHGAR/HOTAN, China (Reuters) - Three times a day, alarms ring out through the streets of China's ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar, and shopkeepers rush out of their stores swinging government-issued wooden clubs.
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More on VICE: How Facetime Saved Erdogan from Turkey's Failed Coup We Spoke to Turkish Shopkeepers in London About July's Coup Attempt How It Feels to Be a Dissident in Turkey After the Coup
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Just like the neighbour-shopkeepers in her first documentary, "Daguerréotypes"—the perfumier gently filling bottles of violet-water, the butcher wrapping meat, the baker stretching dough—she offered her produce where it was made.
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While online vendors are excited about the opportunities, Australia's more traditional shopkeepers have faced pressure to convince investors they can compete against the U.S. giant since it confirmed its plans for Australia in April.
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While most shopkeepers interviewed by Reuters said they did not mind replacing their signs, some said it confused their customers and an employee at a halal butcher shop accused authorities of "erasing" Muslim culture.
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But Casanova pointed out that Amazon is also competing with more local delivery systems—small, independent shops in big cities will bring groceries to your door after you establish a relationship with the shopkeepers.
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My job allows me to eke out a meager living among the many pilgrims and shopkeepers, incinerating the garbage these brave adventurers leave behind after they've purchased their latest spell swatches and plasma rifles.
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Trump, however, seems to reject the entire premise of a mutual defense, viewing NATO as a kind of bizarro protection racket, in which the Mob boss hands out envelopes of cash to the shopkeepers.
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Any rebellious shopkeepers found not to be whistling while they work on Friday would have their businesses taken over by the government and given to "the people and the working class," the president promised.
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Shopkeepers set their ringtones to the wistful songs of Kenny G. The saxophone has never had a large following in China, in part because it was long associated with jazz, individuality and free expression.
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The gangs, by comparison, were predators, killing shopkeepers for failing to pay bribes and battling rival gangs over issues of territory and respect that had nothing to do with the needs of the community.
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Like most of the small shopkeepers who provide on-the-spot diagnosis and treatment here and across Africa and Asia, Mr. Otieno does not have a pharmacist's degree or any medical training at all.
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Shoppers and shopkeepers in Dandong — who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of Chinese government reprisals — said North Korean workers were a common sight, though there had been little sign of an influx.
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MARRAKECH, Morocco (Reuters) - Lined up against shopkeepers hawking everything from fresh parsley to colorful socks, Marrakech's historic booksellers face an uncertain future as authorities plan an urban makeover in one of Morocco's tourist hubs.
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Half English himself, he called England a nation of shopkeepers and described it as "Juda-England," a country corrupted by sinister alien elites, where money counted more than the virtues of blood and soil.
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Residents and shopkeepers said the block had become a kind of family, albeit one bonded in part by an invisible landscape of memorable crimes, and she had earned the respect of a steady visitor.
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In Turkey, shopkeepers who have withstood an attempted military coup, a subsequent crackdown and relentless terrorist attacks now grapple with the plunge of the Turkish lira, which has lifted the price of imported wares.
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The shopkeepers plan to put up new signs in Turkish, both to protect themselves and because Istanbul's governor announced last week that shops must ensure at least 75% of signage is in Turkish, not Arabic.
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After a police station near the market was attacked and looted by rebels, the Soviet-backed government rounded up men and boys in the area, including shopkeepers, bakers and even travelers staying in nearby hotels.
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That is just one glaring example, Mr. Lewis and his fellow shopkeepers in Crickhowell said, of what amounts to multinational tax dodging on a gargantuan scale, leaving the little guy to pick up the tab.
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For instance, amid the chorus of villagers and shopkeepers in that opening song, you see a line of boys being led to school, while a group of little girls are left to do the laundry.
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Westfield's sites and variety of tenants could make them better positioned than some rivals, but there is more work to be done as shopkeepers succumb to e-commerce, leaving mall owners to chase new occupants.
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For people living in transit countries—the drivers, the fixers, the translators, the guards, the shopkeepers, the hawala brokers, the bookkeepers, the police officers, the checkpoint runners, the bandits—business has never been more profitable.
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American aid can help establish similar trading zones in the West Bank city of Qalqilya where Palestinian traders, shopkeepers and small businesses can sell directly to the large Israeli Arab community a few miles away.
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A traveling clothing salesman was sentenced on Friday to 75 years to life in prison for killing three merchants in Brooklyn in a series of attacks that had shopkeepers on alert for months, prosecutors said.
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Her father, Bernard, an Orthodox rabbi, transformed his tiny synagogue for shopkeepers on West 47th Street into a mecca for actors from Broadway, among them Sophie Tucker, Eddie Cantor and two of the Three Stooges.
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QUITO, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Ecuadorean authorities have begun arresting shopkeepers for raising food prices as indigenous groups clashed with security forces on Sunday in a fourth day of protests against President Lenin Moreno's austerity measures.
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In 2011, a similar elevated pod transport project was announced for the city of Amritsar, but was abandoned in 2014 after facing criticism from shopkeepers, small traders and heritage lovers, and being considered financially unviable.
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KARACHI (Reuters) - At a historic market commissioned by Queen Victoria in Pakistan's southern metropolis of Karachi, third-generation spice seller Mohammad Shakeel Abbasi complains that a move to clear illegal encroachments has left poor shopkeepers jobless.
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Then police will enforce a law which fines shopkeepers up to 50,23 CFA francs ($85) for distributing the bags, a lot for a country with a GDP per capita of $1,500, according to World Bank figures.
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An American influence lingered, though, in the local children wearing Halloween costumes and bidding "dolcetto scherzetto" — treat or trick — to shopkeepers as their parents sipped beers and Aperol spritzes in the quiet Sestiere Santa Croce square.
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In an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency during the campaign, he said he had not met any Palestinians since his stay at the yeshiva, where he had some interactions with Palestinian laborers, gardeners and shopkeepers.
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But the Egyptian police have yet to request the footage, say the shopkeepers who own the cameras, a lapse that human rights advocates say is typical of police investigations here, indicating negligence or a possible cover-up.
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The anger is fueled by the Iranian rial plunging to 23,000 to the dollar — double the government rate of 42,000 — as people watch their savings dwindle and shopkeepers hold onto some goods, uncertain of their true value.
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GIARDINI NAXOS, Italy (Reuters) - Shopkeepers down the hill from where world leaders are meeting boarded up their windows and doors on Friday, bracing for a protest march along the seafront of this normally sleepy Sicilian tourist town.
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Among them, it has said transgender women in prison must be jailed in cells with men, argued that religious shopkeepers can refuse service to same-sex couples, and defended a ban on transgender troops in the military.
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Trump's Justice Department has said transgender women in prison must be jailed in cells with men, argued that religious shopkeepers can refuse service to same-sex couples, and defended a ban on transgender troops in the military.
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Apple, Google and Samsung all have apps allowing people to pay shopkeepers from smartphones, and Amazon offers loans to businesses selling on its platform, but may not want to be supervised as closely as banks are now.
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A mix of ethnic Uighur and Han shopkeepers hold large wooden sticks as they are trained in security measures on June 20113, 2017, next to the old town of Kashgar, in the far western Xinjiang region, China.
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In the first case the government lost a case against American Express, which it argued unfairly imposes contractual limits on merchants such as shopkeepers, by prohibiting them from telling shoppers that there are cheaper ways to pay.
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A survey by the Rocco Chinnici Foundation found that small businesses like shopkeepers and artisans on average pay up to 600 euros ($670) a month in protection money, which many owners view as an inevitable business expense.
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The anger is fueled by the Iranian rial plunging to 90,000 to the dollar — double the government rate of 42,000 — as people watch their savings dwindle and shopkeepers hold onto some goods, uncertain of their true value.
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But shopkeepers found that after the Barclays Center — home to the Islanders and the Nets, at Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues — opened, sports fans and concertgoers simply did not walk the 15 minutes to Vanderbilt Avenue to eat.
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I was part of a group of background actors hired to play pedestrians and shopkeepers for an episode of Cinemax's The Knick, a gritty and graphic drama about a hospital at the turn of the 20th century.
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The Buddhist community association was so outraged by the relationship, and the fact that Ms. Saldon had fled, that it sent young men stomping through Leh's main bazaar, demanding that all the shopkeepers help bring her back.
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Justice Department officials would not say whether they intended to carry out a crackdown and begin prosecuting commercial growers, distributors and shopkeepers, or were instead merely trying to sow doubt and slow growth in the semilegal industry.
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Gautama was from Gwalior, a small city in Madhya Pradesh, one of those wretched places where the streets are narrow and crowded and where shopkeepers in the central market sell illegal postcards of satis sitting on bonfires.
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Paradoxically, some of my fondest memories of childhood were from our first few years in the United States, when my parents had not yet set out to rebuild their fortunes by becoming shopkeepers and, eventually, property owners.
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AZAZ, Syria (Reuters) - In a part of northern Syria that Turkey's army helped rebels capture in 2016, the plunge in value of the Turkish lira has hit shopkeepers, medical charities and fighters paid in the currency hard.
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Across Asia, in a trendy Istanbul neighborhood along the Bosporus, shopkeepers complain that their sales have been savaged by the plunge in the Turkish lira, which has lifted their prices for imported sporting goods, luggage and clothing.
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Anoosh and Arash beg shopkeepers to carry their album without government approval, transport music equipment through police checkpoints, negotiate with unscrupulous vendors and unreliable security to coordinate parties, and consider leaving loved ones behind for European freedom.
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On the hot-button issue of religious liberty — such as the big wedding-cake case that was recently decided at the Supreme Court — 16% think shopkeepers should be allowed to turn away LGBTQ customers based on religious objections.
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The new Star Wars lands have been pitched as fully immersive environments, where everyone from the shopkeepers and vendors that people buy food from will be characters in the actual Star Wars universe, rather than traditional Disney employees.
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And as shopkeepers and businesses in relatively cash-light countries such as Sweden are discovering, there are other real benefits to preferring electronic payments over cash, including security, lower costs, hygiene and convenience, for both business and customer.
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As Satish and other Harohalli shopkeepers have found chocolate sales in India are taking off, helped by growth in disposable incomes that extends to the country's 650,000 poorer villages where more than two-thirds of the population reside.
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As I passed shopkeepers setting out signs and sweeping storefronts that morning, I noticed a short middle-aged white woman with a pixie cut walking a couple feet in front of me with her purse on her shoulder.
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On a recent day, vendors who sell watches and parts from the stationary glass cases that dot the alley were busy unlocking their displays, and shopkeepers rolled up the metal shutters they had pulled down the night before.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean soldiers ordered shopkeepers to close and leave the center of the capital on Thursday, two store-owners said, the day after three people were killed by troops sent in to disperse crowds of opposition supporters.
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The shopkeepers and restaurant owners — the Turks — trapped in this fake Turkey pretending to be authentic Turkey looked as depressed as you would expect of people who have been forced to imitate themselves for the sake of strangers.
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The arrests, most of which took place this week in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and the southern Indian state of Karnataka, involved students, laborers and shopkeepers, all Muslims ages 20 to 35, the police said.
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With absolutely nothing at stake — no world to save, no baddies to fight — the pleasure of the gameplay comes from the bothering of townsfolk: chasing frightened children, stealing from shopkeepers and honking incessantly at people trying to read.
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This year, nearly 1,200 of you obliged, from well over 100 neighborhoods across all five boroughs, submitting letter grades and critiques and bonbons for issues like scaffolding and sirens, trees and trucks and trash, stray cats and shopkeepers.
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The unions are also unhappy about another Macron promise that appears likely to be on the table in the upcoming negotiations, a vow to make unemployment insurance "universal," opening it up to independent workers, shopkeepers, artisans and others.
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Some Zimbabwean shopkeepers said they had been ordered by soldiers to close and leave the center of the capital on Thursday, the day after three people were killed by troops sent in to disperse crowds of opposition supporters.
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He argues that the nondiscrimination law's enforcement, which lacks an exemption for religious shopkeepers, fails a legal standard of being generally applicable and neutral — instead, he alleges, the state "targets, shows hostility toward, and discriminates" against people of faith.
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"The cost of sourcing goods right now…we estimate we're cutting that cost by about 20 percent [for] these shopkeepers," he said Quantifying the size and potential of Africa's informal markets has captured the attention of economists and startups.
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Ebedinoglu said the fighting caused 500 businesses to shut down completely, while shopkeepers were forced to close their stores for weeks or months at a time when the violence surged, meaning they fell behind on rent and debt payments.
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Weary shopkeepers on the Champs-Élysées were still cleaning up from the previous night's celebrations and looting — 292 arrests were made across France — even as the boulevard filled again for the team's triumphal bus ride to the Élysée Palace.
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A similar protest last year on May 1 — International Workers' Day — also ended in violence and resulted in damaged property; this year, shopkeepers prepared by covering windows with plywood and hurricane shutters and closing their businesses for the day.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York clothing salesman known as the "Son of Sal" serial killer was convicted on Wednesday of three counts of second-degree murder in the 2012 shooting deaths of three shopkeepers in Brooklyn, prosecutors said.
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Rage persists over the plunging of the Iranian rial to 90,000 to the dollar — double the government rate of 42,000 rials to $1 — as people watch their savings dwindle and shopkeepers hold onto some goods, uncertain of their true value.
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She also cited other cases in Arizona and Colorado that could bring the underlying legal questions back to the Supreme Court — that is, whether First Amendment rights to free speech and religious exercise allow shopkeepers to refuse certain wedding-related services.
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The tendency retreated to a few islands of rage during the long post-war prosperity: France's National Front drew its support from marginalised groups such as the pieds-noirs forced from Algeria after decolonisation, and small shopkeepers who hated paying taxes.
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And who is this royal lineage of humanoids making subjects out of the simple Toads, who can be found as messengers, servants, and shopkeepers (though recent endeavors into "archeology" promises there is at least some class mobility among the entire species).
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It's the same reason why, if you as an American (or westerner for that matter) have ever visited a market in a third-world country, the shopkeepers immediately jack up the prices because they know you can afford to pay more.
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With bundles of the freshly printed Gazette tucked into the trunk of her Honda Civic, Ms. Fournier, 2122, makes her way through town, plunking down papers on countertops, slipping them into wire racks and keeping up a cheerful patter with shopkeepers.
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TIPITAPA, Nicaragua (Reuters) - Thousands of shopkeepers and businessmen in Nicaragua on Thursday heeded calls for a national strike by foes of President Daniel Ortega, shutting down much of the country after nearly two months of deadly protests urging his ouster.
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Njerere said the program, assisted by 1203 million euros ($2120 million) from the European Union, had helped chicken farms, fisheries, tailors and shopkeepers acquire hire-purchase solar panels, so they can work in the evening as well as during the day.
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Last year, 180 migrants had to seek refuge in the Chinese embassy in Kinshasa, Congo's capital, as rioters razed their stores, and in South Africa, the xenophobic attacks on shopkeepers got so violent that the foreign ministry lodged a formal complaint.
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MUMBAI, July 2 (Reuters) - A lobby group of small Indian traders and shopkeepers has asked tens of thousands of its members to hold protests across the country on Monday against Walmart Inc's proposed $16 billion acquisition of e-commerce firm Flipkart.
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Gleaming with avian beauty, they appear in vivid colors as multistory murals on the sides of apartment buildings, as epiphanies in alleyways and as scattered nocturnal flocks that burst into view when shopkeepers roll down security gates where they are painted.
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Although the extent of the damage is still being assessed, building by building and road by road, the city on Saturday had already begun to return to normal as shopkeepers and families cleaned up the mess, grateful to have evaded catastrophe.
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The inferno, the deadliest in New York in more than 25 years, roared through the brown five-story building at 13 Prospect Avenue as neighbors cooked dinner and shopkeepers around the corner closed up at the end of the day.
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The program aims to transform scattered Uighurs, Kazakhs and other ethnic minorities — many of them farmers, shopkeepers and tradespeople — into a disciplined, Chinese-speaking industrial work force, loyal to the Communist Party and factory bosses, according to official plans published online.
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More recently in June, protesters swarmed Tehran's Grand Bazaar and forced shopkeepers to close their stalls, apparently in anger over the rial dropping to 90,000 to the U.S. dollar on the black market despite government attempts to control the currency rate.
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"It's a city of Chinese grocers and Indian shopkeepers and recent college graduates, all striving for a better life in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty," New Jersey's Attorney General, Gubrir S. Grewal, said at a news conference on Wednesday.
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NGOMOROMO, Uganda (Reuters) - It started out as a normal Monday morning in Pajok in South Sudan - children walking to school, shopkeepers raising their shutters and hawkers laying out their wares in the market, where a shower had just dampened down the dust.
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As part of an $850m mental-health initiative launched in 2015, New York City has plans to train 250,000 of its firefighters, police officers, teachers, shopkeepers and citizens to spot common risk factors and warning signs of mental illness and respond appropriately.
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Barnette runs them down—the stranger in a grocery store who comforted a crying Madelyn by giving her a stuffed animal and then nonchalantly going about his day, the vending machines that dispensed umbrellas, the pride shopkeepers felt about keeping their curbs pristine.
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U.S. truck and rail freight volumes were down in the first half of 2019 and appear to be deteriorating further as President Donald Trump's ongoing trade war with China takes a toll on Main Street shopkeepers, Midwestern farmers and other domestic businesses.
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MossoSouk (Chadian Arabic for "trade-market"), Chad's first online store for merchants, shopkeepers and individuals with goods to sell, is the brainchild of 26-year-old Andreas Koumato, who hopes to turn it into the Central African country's version of electronic marketplace Amazon.
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She and her compatriots also worry about the shopkeepers who, because they lack easy access to public transportation, drive in from outside the city to work in the unglamorous stores that make up a stretch of Columbus Avenue in the low 100s.
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The streets around Second Avenue south of 19813th Street formed a neighborhood where less than a century earlier a dozen Yiddish theaters had drawn flocks of garment workers, peddlers and shopkeepers to see everything from "King Lear" in Yiddish to schmaltzy family melodramas.
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Twentysomething Francophone shopkeepers answer me in fluent English when I address them in French, and residents of all linguistic persuasions seem more obsessed by their search for the perfect latte than whether you order it in the language of Shakespeare or Molière.
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CreditCreditElliott Verdier for The New York Times MARRAKESH, Morocco — One of the first stops for visitors to this city is the medina, the cacophonous mazelike Arab quarter of the city, bustling with snake charmers, henna artists and shopkeepers selling spices, pottery and textiles.
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Two days bracket the high season in Greenport, a centuries-old fishing village on the North Fork of Long Island: the last day of school, late in June, and Tumbleweed Tuesday, as shopkeepers and farm stand workers call the day after Labor Day.
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The show was memorably poetic, Nick Sullivan, the men's style director at Esquire, said Tuesday evening before an elaborately theatrical Hugo Boss offering, with the magic of that Van Noten event amplified when shopkeepers rained rose petals on the models during the finale.
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Throngs of tourists are evacuating, she said, but it's the locals who are most overwhelmed, as homeowners and shopkeepers grapple with the immediate threat of the fires on top of severe economic losses the fires are inflicting at the peak of tourist season.
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Here, too, Rapport gives not just political but geographic perspective: The Bastille overlooked the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, the cramped district of Paris that was packed with the homes and work spaces of artisans and shopkeepers, groups that were among the economically oppressed.
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But the latest example of this long-simmering culture war here in Quebec happened just last week, when provincial legislators unanimously passed a resolution calling for shopkeepers to stop saying "Bonjour hi" when they greet customers and to say simply "Bonjour" instead.
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From shopkeepers to moto-taxi drivers, local people said Beijing's tightening of visas for Chinese gamblers traveling to the Wa in recent years - part of the anti-corruption campaign launched by President Xi Jinping - has cast a shadow on livelihoods in the reclusive territory.
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Such are the concerns about French being threatened by the proliferation of English that the Quebec government two years ago unanimously passed a resolution calling for shopkeepers to stop saying "bonjour hi" — a popular greeting in bilingual Montreal — and to just say "bonjour" instead.
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Though the researchers spoke with hundreds of ordinary people — from students to shopkeepers to local journalists — around the state from August 9 and 13 for their report, nobody was willing to speak on camera for fear of persecution from the Indian government, the economists said.
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There are no polls to consult but on a recent trip to the city, a Reuters reporter interviewed about a dozen people, from shopkeepers and laborers to coal mine owners and lawyers, and all of them said they were still positive about Bo's reign.
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Despite the partial relaxation, an informal but widespread boycott by students, shopkeepers and public and private sector workers is taking place across the valley, aimed at protesting against New Delhi, according to interviews with seven government officials and dozens of residents of the valley.
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As county and state decrees ordering closure of non-essential activities weigh on businesses, talks between mall operators and shopkeepers hit a stalemate on Tuesday, with landlords planning to still collect rental payments from tenants, who are seeking a full exemption during the coronavirus lockdowns.
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His remarks contradict a statement sent by local shopkeepers association Alshop late on Monday citing a deal with mall operators for a complete exemption from paying any rent as long as malls were closed, as well as a reduction in maintenance cleaning and energy fees.
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"[They call their] store managers 'shopkeepers' and I call our G. M.s 'innkeepers' — I think this sealed the deal," said the owner of Salt Hotels, David Bowd, also a co-founder of the hospitality management firm DDK and now principal of West Elm Hotels.
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"Business is reliant on the internet for everything," said Nasir Hamid Khan, an official at the Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry, a trade body, adding that the crackdown has cost businesses billions of dollars, as shopkeepers have protested by refusing to restart trade.
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On a recent afternoon, as the midday heat thinned the sidewalk crowds to a trickle, bored shopkeepers watched Chinese films on their phones while their Senegalese workers dusted the shelves and chatted with one another in Wolof, the lingua franca, which few Chinese understand.
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In Indonesia, a booming market of 22017m people dispersed across 2200,22025 islands with few decent roads or, as in Nigeria, precise addresses, Shopee and its regional rivals, Tokopedia and Lazeda, enlist local shopkeepers who know the area to direct deliveries to the right recipients.
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"This new movement and the risk of continuing strikes are a further hard blow for shopkeepers who were already seriously affected by one year of the Yellow Vest movement," said Yohann Petiot, the head of the Alliance du Commerce trade group, in a statement.
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"These are unique relationships that you had with these shopkeepers," said Tommy Berger, who lives in the South Slope and was stunned when Eagle Provisions, a small Polish grocer on Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn, closed last year, ending a run that began in 1939.
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Authorities this week also restricted how many vehicles could cross into North Korea each day via a bridge to the coastal Chinese city of Dandong, from 300-400 earlier to about 100, shopkeepers there said - a sign that sanctions are having some early impact.
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Even as Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha of Thailand, the head of the military junta that seized control of the country in 2014, played down Bangkok's pollution, shopkeepers were told they could be liable to up to seven years in prison for hoarding masks.
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The leaders of the main opposition forces, which is comprised of a wide coalition of interest groups – including factory workers, farmers seeking additional water supplies, bazaar shopkeepers and promoters of freedom for women – reject recognition of minority rights, which they believe can splinter the opposition movement.
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They see a future in which a small group of highly skilled tech workers reign supreme, while the rest of the job world resembles the piecemeal, transitional work we see coming out of tech today (Uber drivers, Etsy shopkeepers, people who scrape by on other people's platforms).
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Less well-known than such contemporaries as Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen, Sorley is seen in the play expressing empathy for the Germans (he likes the shopkeepers, if not the central heating), and embraces conflict as an alternative to attending Oxford, about which he is strikingly ambivalent.
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I ask shopkeepers how they prepare whatever it is they sell, which is how I came to cook a turkey at a temperature so low I feared it wouldn't be ready to eat until the next day (its slow-roasted skin was burnished and its meat moist).
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After six months, my French improved to the point that Parisian shopkeepers stopped pretending they didn't speak English; content that I had made a good enough effort in their own language, they would speak to me in mine, no matter how much I persisted in French.
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"The thought that these foreign fighters who have participated in this fight now for over two years will quietly leave Syria and return to their jobs as shopkeepers in Paris, in Brussels, in Copenhagen, is ludicrous," said General Selva, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
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The term "pengci" derives from the practice of dishonest shopkeepers placing a porcelain item in a spot where it was likely to get knocked over and broken, allowing them to claim damages from the "clumsy" customer, said David Schak, an anthropologist at Griffith University in Australia.
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More often than not, the path through Arashiyama's bamboo forest is flooded with sightseers — but in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak in China, which has infected over 75,000 and killed more than 2,000 worldwide, Kyoto shopkeepers have noticed a downtick in the number of tourists.
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Mr. Lewis, who retired from the army as a major and fought in Northern Ireland and the Middle East, is working with his regiment of shopkeepers to stoke public indignation across Britain so that consumers, and ultimately shareholders, will pressure company executives to change the way they do business.
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Most are long, detailed retellings of what life used to be like before conflict erupted and how drastically things have changed now, as told by shopkeepers, ex-car dealers turned into chefs for the kitchens of local NGOs, and everyday people struggling to hold on with their families.
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He will have to fulfill Mr. de Blasio's promise to make neighborhood policing a permanent and meaningful change in how the department operates, with well-trained officers getting out of their patrol cars, getting to know shopkeepers and pastors, children and parents, gaining trust, de-escalating conflicts, preventing crime.
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SAO PAULO, March 24 (Reuters) - Negotiations between Brazilian shopkeepers and mall operators on rental payments during the coronavirus lockdown hit a stalemate on Tuesday, as the sector has failed so far to receive tax cuts or other relief measures from the government to deal with the worsening crisis.
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Still, the library has a weekly Ping-Pong meet-up for seniors; shopkeepers read in lawn chairs on the sidewalk until a customer wanders by; the grocery has been run by the same family for decades; and going out for an ice cream cone is considered a big night.
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Midnight is apparently a ghost town, in the sense that every building is in disrepair, needs a new paint job, or hasn't been cared for at all in the last 50 years, but all the shopkeepers did go for splashy neon signs to add just that right touch of modernity.
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As for the longer-term picture, FiveStars wants eventually to branch out beyond North America — the UK, being a nation of shopkeepers, is likely to be the first place FiveStars will go, said Ho. But for right now, the aim is to become a much bigger brand on its home turf.
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They were like so many of the taxi and tricycle drivers, the shopkeepers and the overseas Filipino workers I'd talked to in recent days, who kept saying matapang: Tagalog for bold or brave, and shorthand for Mr. Duterte's unique audacity, which they believe will bring security and prosperity to the Philippines.
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The community that has sprouted up since retains vestiges of those exclusive summer colonies, but they coexist with T-shirt shops, tour buses and a large middle class of shopkeepers, retirees and telecommuters who live year-round on the island, about two-thirds of the way up the Maine coast.
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Their story was passed between tea sellers and rickshaw drivers and shopkeepers in Old Delhi: In a forest, they said, in a palace cut off from the city that surrounds it, lived a prince, a princess and a queen, said to be the last of a storied Shiite Muslim royal line.
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The few passersby I saw—shopkeepers returning to work after their lunch break and a few groups of tourists—were pacing up and down the shady side of the aptly named Rue du Marché aux Truffes, the main thoroughfare in Lalbenque, the capital of the black truffles of Quercy (a truffle street market).
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" The company did write that it wants to facilitate "someone placing an order with a local bakery or looking at new styles from a clothing store" and "shopkeepers who use WhatsApp to stay in touch with hundreds of customers from a single smartphone", plus offer "an easier way to respond to messages.
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"If I have half an hour to myself and would like to play some video games, I could easily play a couple levels of 'Donkey Kong' but wouldn't get anywhere more than chatting up a few shopkeepers in 'The Witcher 3,'" he said, citing a popular role-playing game developed by CD Projekt.
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Albert Camus didn't think much of surrealists or Marxists, and he watched the "frenetic" artists—who wanted "'any sort of revolution,' no matter what as long as it rescued them from the world of shopkeepers and compromise in which they were forced to live"—with disdain as they tried to reconcile themselves to collective politics.
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Flash-forward to 2018 and the same stonemasons — as well as local shopkeepers, students and chief executives — are likely to prefer bun bo nam bo or pho soup for lunch at one of the city's fast and cheap Vietnamese noodle restaurants, which have appeared by the dozens in the Czech capital over the past decade.
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The show does not only expand Nola's sexual universe, it also pays attention to the ways in which her and other black female characters' bodies are constantly under surveillance (by white shopkeepers), exploited (at a local burlesque club or on reality TV), threatened (by police officers) and even assaulted (by everyday men on the street).
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It's a very British kind of anarchy, since it involves the disruption of a retail space (it was Napoleon who once said we were a nation of shopkeepers), but it is a potent form of confusion, because visitors to Ashby Square News may all be coming to the same conclusion: if we had to, we could live without brands.
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Her prose is at times charmingly folksy (the only book I've read with more casual anecdotes is How to Win Friends & Influence People), at times philosophical, and sometimes almost poetic (multiple pages are dedicated to the "ballet of the sidewalk," the improvised dance between children, shopkeepers, mothers, businessmen, and revelers that makes city living so vital).
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In Munich, as Germany returned to play its first match since the World Cup against the new champion, France, two weeks ago, shopkeepers on Goethestrasse — a thoroughfare dominated by Turkish-run restaurants, fruit sellers and general stores that sold Turkish and German soccer jerseys side by side — bemoaned the impact Özil's words would have on their lives.
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He led seventy-three Saturday tours of the tunnels, went door to door to assuage local shopkeepers, and cooked for the construction workers at a neighborhood restaurant, though there wasn't much he could do about a plague of flies—a result, he theorized, of the excavation of all the old hops the neighborhood's long-gone breweries had dumped into the ground.
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Wade and allow states to prosecute any physicians and nurses who perform abortions; allow shopkeepers or restaurants to refuse service to LGBTQ Americans; enable universities to accept fewer African-American and Latino students; approve laws designed to make it more difficult to vote; expand exercise of the death penalty; and prohibit states from adopting any sensible form of gun control, even the banning of bump stocks.
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She moves abroad, to London for college and, later, after the death of her mother, to Paris, where she strikes up a friendship with an older man, an Anglophone novelist, referred to only as M. As foreigners together, they wander the city talking and later exchanging emails about everything from food to birds' nests to grumpy shopkeepers to writing and even a standard measuring stick.
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I hear it from Snapp drivers (Snapp is a popular ridesharing app in Iran) who can't hold back their curiosity as we sit in traffic, and shopkeepers who have watched me struggle to make a purchase, and from my cousins' relaxed, well-dressed friends at parties in dimly lit apartments that turn hazy with cigarette smoke while we drink black-market whiskey or homemade araq mixed with juice.
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Nowadays, on Via Giuseppe Garibaldi, the main street, which is closed off to cars during the day, the shopkeepers are busy in their stores, while their children ride bikes in the street, laundry hangs from the clothes lines above, the ancient marble cistern still bubbles with water, and the bells from the San Michele church keep the time, marking moments in days that pass with nothing of much of consequence happening.
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These photographs provided much-needed detail and context for a community all too often defined by stereotypes: the exotic tourist mecca replete with golden dragons and inexpensive restaurants; the booming business district, crowded with shopkeepers hawking ethnic foods, gaudy trinkets and mysterious potions; or the lurid, opium-fueled world of "Chinatown Nights," a 1929 gangster film directed by William A. Wellman about a white socialite caught up in San Francisco's Chinese underworld.
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Many of the aforementioned buildings are open for special events surrounding the festival, and when I ask around, older shopkeepers happily say things like "The goths are like family to us!" and make offhand comments about how they smell like patchouli, sounding like grandmothers speaking about a slightly weird but very nice cousin who visits once a year and brings them an antique orb that they don't really know what to do with, but appreciate nonetheless.
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Although his is largely a story of success, he is dealing as well, he said, with diminished foot traffic in part because the ever-rising fortunes of the neighborhood take greater numbers of people away on the weekends and in part because the shopkeepers who have not been able to stay afloat produce the empty retail spaces that leave fewer incentives for turning off your computer, leaving the house and going out with the ambition to buy something.
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