To encourage these habits, Jumia Group will spend some of its latest funding round on "customer adoption centers" — boutique-style booths with laptops and tablets, where prospective shoppers can navigate its companies' Web sites, guided by company representatives.
But the hospital industry, increasingly dominated by giant corporations, either for-profit or acting like for-profits, are making higher profits elsewhere - in outpatient settings, especially surgery centers and boutique care centers, and investments, for example.
Seventh Street in the East Village is becoming a fashion center, with boutiques opening regularly.
Home to around 270,000 people, this Nicosia is a moneyed urban center with boutiques, malls and sprawling suburbs of Mediterranean mansions.
WHAT TO DO Association Cultural Mercado Negro (Rua João Mendonça, 17/2a), a cultural center and boutiques mall rolled into one, is on the second floor of a building on the main canal.
Plans call for two 18-hole courses designed by Rees Jones, a clubhouse, P.G.A. training and historical centers, a boutique hotel with a spa and a casino, the beach club and a central area of shops and restaurants.
Antananarivo now hosts numerous internet cafes, and has seen a dramatic rise in shopping centers and boutiques, restaurants and bars in the last 20 years.
Today, Ms. Haldeman and her business partner, Corky Harvey, are the founders and co-owners of the Pump Station and Nurtury, a breast-feeding resource center and baby boutique in Santa Monica, Calif.
The center of the boutique is a jewelry display constructed of timbers stretching from floor to ceiling; 469 Broome Street (Greene Street), (212) 219-2284.... Masgaschoni has moved its store on Main Street in East Hampton, N.Y., into a 2,000-square-foot 2,000-square-foot 2,000-square-footock up for summer.
