"niche shops" is a correct and usable part of speech in written English.
It is used to refer to small, specialized stores that cater to a specific group of customers, often those seeking out rare or unique products. For example, "Niche shops are thriving in this part of town, offering all sorts of specialty items that can't be found elsewhere."
At the consumer end this leads to cafés and niche shops, such as the shipping-container Boxpark in Shoreditch.
A five-minute walk from the city center, it already has a commercial mix of small businesses from the jewelry trade to technology works and small professional outfits with dashes of color provided by specialist and niche shops.
"So [you need] the more bespoke, more service-orientated, more luxury or niche shops.
"The local audience for niche shops is so important.
I guess it is a very niche hobby, which allows me to go to niche shops and bore people with the minute details of my secret alone time that they don't give a toss about.
The nut shops, which often sold sweets and, in the summer, ice cream to keep sales up, date back to an era in New York when specialty stores and niche shopping districts — one even for pickles — were the norm.
Zeitz knows it takes more than a niche product placed in a niche shopping venue: He has tripled Puma's advertising and marketing budget to 15% of sales, higher than its rivals.
A niche shop on the far side of town is effectively much closer in terms of cost and time needed to get there thanks to Uber.
Ms. Wallace said she had advised some of her CBS colleagues to consider niche content shops like iVillage.
But "the trade-off is international distribution," Mr. Waid said, "as opposed to having to rely on niche hobby shops scattered across the nation".
Open Saturday to Tuesday 9 a.m. to 8 p. m., Wednesday, Thursday and Friday till 5. Cherry Creek North is Denver's high-tone shopping niche, with dozens of inviting shops and galleries.
