Like-for-like sales – which strip out any boost from new shops – dropped, but were offset by new store openings.
Skirting some unsightly shops, I drop by the hide at the RSPB Wildlife Discovery Centre to watch fulmars and choughs, and spot a seal bobbing in the frothy waves.
By the early 1990s the number of mom-and-pop supply shops in the U.S. had dropped by more than half, to 6,000.
Sales at his music and compact-disc shop, Charlie's Place, have dropped by half the past couple of weeks, he said.
But before the stylist could give the pediatrician's number to the lawyer, Mr. Horowitz dropped by the shop for another haircut.
The old-moneyed types among his clientele would have made that phone call themselves, maybe even have dropped by the shop instead of calling.
ST. ALBANS, W. Va. Senator John McCain and a clutch of camera crews dropped by a gun shop here on Friday, but the presumptive Republican nominee completely avoided the guns.
It was all pretty standard record shop chat until that genius Erik Lavoie dropped by to pay us a visit and he said: "This is m83 right?
When Michelle Madhok, Online Shopping Expert and Founder of SheFinds Media dropped by Mondays With Marlo this week, she gave her top three tips on achieving shopping success.
