And on Monday, Club Monaco unveils a flagship it's calling a "culture club," with Italian leather boots ($395) from the brand's first in-house footwear line alongside shop-in-shops from Strand Books and Toby's Estate Coffee.
So a travel app could bring up nearby auto garages or window repair shops for stranded travelers and get a cut of any call revenue they generate.
Another drawing shows oil being piped from barrels into a shop on the Strand, counterpointed with a woman's annoyance at discovering a drop has landed on her gown.
Finally, when Sheppard was 10, he went to work as a shop-boy for William Kneebone, a wool draper with a shop on the Strand.
After six years, Boydell's diligence allowed him to buy out the last year of his apprenticeship, and in 1746 he set up an independent shop on the Strand that specialised in topographical prints that cost six pence for a cheap print or one shilling for an expensive print.
She pulled David McCullough's "John Adams" out of a Strand shopping bag.
Stephen Anderson, 59, who was shopping at the Strand, said he was familiar with Mr. Baraka when he called himself LeRoi Jones, the Harlem black nationalist and Village beatnik who made headlines during the Newark riots in 1967.
He looked more like an eight-year-old than a 10-year-old, and he was so convincing in the first interview that I believed he'd not been anywhere near the Strand shopping centre.
Morton finds it all - and places it in his vignettes of tea-shops on the Strand, and Cleopatra's Needle pointing back 4,000 years on the Embankment, and the 374 steps up to Big Ben, and a "Who goes there?" at the wicket gate to the Tower.
Behind the counter at a coffee shop in the market strand of Rio Piedras, Beatriz Perez, 34, said she didn't know how she will be able to help support her family if the crises worsens.
Downstairs on the shopping floor, Bibbi Taylor, a Strand manager, perused the Africa aisle for Indiana Jones material.
