For many immigrants and their children, the neighborhood quickly becomes the old neighborhood, as people move away, returning to shop and visit friends.
Many consumers returned to shops to hand back their salt and demanded to get their money back.
Your article about the extraordinary turnaround in the fortunes of Waterstones (21 November) omits to mention another reason why so many of us have returned to shop in the store.
"If you see governments passing legislation, you'll see consumers returning to the shops".
David Tarantino, an analyst at Baird fund management in Milwaukee, recently upgraded Starbucks' shares to "outperform", citing evidence that consumers were returning to coffee shops.
"Life is gradually returning to normal, shops have reopened as well as pharmacies," Mariam Kone, in the southern district of Koumassi, told Reuters.
In any case, evidence suggests readers are returning to the shops and that's where writers need to be.
The next day her "client" (Richard Gere) takes her out on a shopping spree, eventually returning to the shop that snubbed her to remind the clerks of the purchases they could have overseen.
I am returning to the shop floor to experience Christmas shopping from the other side of the till.
Safe to say, no usage storms resulted then either — unless you're talking about the storm of BlackBerry buyers returning to the shop demanding a replacement handset.
