Its broad aisles are full of collectors, museum curators, artists and makers.
The Jalandhar store, which opened in August 2010, looks and feels like Wal-Mart's American outlets, with broad aisles stacked high with merchandise.
And it is the idea of Wayland as a place of worship that seems closest to the mark as I look down the broad aisles that cut through the wood and make room for the light.
The bet made by the chains was that as India became richer, its consumers would abandon kerbside stalls and kiranas (small family-owned shops) for air-conditioned stores with wide aisles and broad ranges.
The church still stands, not far from the state capitol in the center of Honolulu, a copy in coral blocks, hand-hewn from local reefs, of a village Congregational church in New England, with a broad central aisle, pews for 1,500 and a fine old wall clock from Boston.
Then they will race their shopping carts through the broad, familiar aisles of our nation's most popular discount stores, filling them with DVD players, wide-screen TV's, Hokey Pokey Elmos -- something's always on sale.
Big corporation, wide aisles.
"He was an integral part of the Democratic caucus," Reid also wrote in an e-mail, "and his dedication to public service, ability to work across the aisle and broad range of experience will be missed".
Broad, easy-to-navigate aisles, varied design, comfortable points of access and a range of brands from hip to haute: the only thing missing from Bloomingdale's extreme makeover is, alas, the hordes of people stampeding their way toward armloads of merchandise.
