In 2010, H&M opened its store with great fanfare, soon followed by the big American shops.
What's more, because they are so inexpensive, they may not be handled or stored with great care.
At the other extreme, there is a converted red barn, built in 1910, near the Hadlyme four corners, with its herb and antiques shop and a totally authentic general store with great sandwiches.
Mr. Stevenson, 52, who spent childhood summers in Southampton, says he remembers the store with great joy: "The best thing that could happen to you when you were a kid was having your parents say you could go to Lillywhite's".
Lithium-ion batteries are highly flammable, and need to be charged and stored with great care.
Bi-Rite, the local pricey grocery store with great taste, is the closest spot for park favors.
"Many people would say that this is the ideal," Mr. Ghitelman of Supermarket News said, referring to destination stores like Stew Leonard's and Whole Foods, "to have large stores with a great variety of products, presented in a kind of interesting way, so that shopping isn't just drudgery.
Shoppers Supermarket, however, stocked 17 types of vegetables and eight kinds of fruit; the only nearby store with greater selection was Walmart (97 varieties of vegetable, 45 types of fruit).
With 50 million customers a week, all of whom leave the store with greater or lesser forms of a paper product, they have their work cut out for them.
