We are more like shopkeepers, offering our various wares to a wary and sceptical public.
The self-styled "chubby grocer" is aiming to be a far more streamlined shopkeeper within the next three months.
Now creeping price rises have been replaced by something more ominous: Russian shopkeepers have started to re-price their goods daily.
On the day a traveling salesman described by the police as a serial killer was ordered held without bail on charges that he murdered three Brooklyn shopkeepers, more details of his life began to emerge.
The lack of a Whole Foods or Citarella is made up for by a scattershot assortment of specialty stores: bakers, butchers and grocers run less by district managers and more by local shopkeepers who know your name and your children's names.
Suzanne Daley (NYT) FRANCE: McDONALD'S SECOND THOUGHTS -- After more than 800 shopkeepers in the Marais, the Paris district known for its synagogues and Jewish shops, signed a petition to keep a McDonald's restaurant out of the neighborhood, the company announced it was abandoning plans to open a restaurant there.
There are 40 million shopkeepers (more than any other nation), and the nation is now faced with the threat of an invasion by Wal-Mart Stores. Wal-Mart Stores
The move has been welcomed by Cancer Research Scotland but the Tobacco Retailers Alliancee (TRA) - which represents more than 26,000 shopkeepers across the UK - has argued against the legislation.
About a year later, a methane gas explosion in the 6200 block of West 3rd Street, which forced more than 160 shopkeepers at the market to close for four days, also created concern over development in the area, especially of a proposed Metro Rail station at Beverly Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue.
The Taliban are warning the people to expect more attacks, the shopkeeper, Mr. Saifullah, told General Eikenberry.
