a) The creation of small scale business groups, focusing on small shops

He runs a little shop in one of the back streets of Mumbai.

So, he was like a kid in a candy store.

We had lunch at a little coffee shop.

Labour laws do not yet cover workers in the informal sector, e.g. small shops, workshops as well as the agricultural work force.

Small shops play an important role as employers of those who migrate from rural to urban areas, including foreigners, performing a crucial social role that large chains would be unable to perform, since chains require that employees have a certain level of skill.

I went to a local shop, I tried to buy her a sanitary pad packet.

Zoning and planning restrictions are aimed at protecting small shops.

He has this little 10 square meter store, where so much is being done.

In the area of retail, the increasing popularity of modern format large shops, for example retail outlets outside city centres, has given rise to concerns about small shops vanishing.

There are up to twenty shops and a small post office scattered over town.

Outside of Gatesville we were coming back from the grocery store.

Take out sandwich shops, film processing drop offs, peep shows and necktie stores.

A small European shop opened inside, the mood is great!

The small restaurant of today may be a big hotel tomorrow.

In other words, small shops may be more than capable of holding their own against big retailers if they adapt to the new environment. Indeed, small shops advantages are so compelling that Tesco is investing heavily in expanding its network of convenience stores, Tesco Express, thereby effectively mimicking the traditional model of local grocery stores.

For dessert, store bought ice cream or cookies.

And with his only diploma, his primary education certificate, he found himself working at a dyer dry cleaner.

Some hotels exploit the opportunity to put even more memes with a little sticker.

It was last summer and I went down to this random used auto parts store and I met this nine year old boy named Caine

In the window of the hospital's tiny gift shop there was a sign that said, Volunteers Needed. Hmm.

This October 6th, the one year anniversary of the flash... mob we did to make Caine's day, the Imagination Foundation is launching a

Well this picture I was in Hebron in a small shop, this shop, where instead of bringing in food, we provide digital food, a card.

Who had taken over his dad's store with this elaborate cardboard arcade.

If one kid plays store, and another one s playing house, then the whole kind of play falls down.

Like, this is Viagra that I bought from a backstreet sex shop in China.

But a friend of mine spent four hours wandering around here looking for this restaurant.

The village has a small store with goods from Stepanakert Khankendi.

This store is opened at eight.

In fact, I would stand for hours in the aisles of shops, reading all the names on all of the things.

While the relative absence of Facebook style mega entrepreneurial successes in Europe is regularly bemoaned, the difficulties of opening hairdressers, basic retailers, and simple mail order businesses may have an equally profound overall effect.

There is a bookstore in front of the department store.

This was a little grocery store, a Food Lion grocery store, that is now a public library.

The design phase for the remaining projects, namely the relocation of the commissary and gift shop and the construction of a loading bay, has been completed.

Manage the reservations for your hotel, hostel or BB

Bob worked as a clerk in the grocery store on Saturday.

In general, large shopping companies have official and reasonable return procedures, but if you have shopped for gifts at certain small stores or online, you must be careful.

That's a fancy way of saying it's got shops, bars, bistros, destinations things go in and out of it. It's permeable.

At the end of December, at an auto tyre mending store, Wan, seeing the victim working outside the store, entered the store by stealth and stole 600 yuan in cash. At last the owner caught him and called the police.

I like shopping in used book stores and in used clothing shops.

However, competition between domestic firms is quite strong, and the introduction of supermarkets has forced a number of small shops to close down.

What are the odds that years later you'll turn on the stereo and go, Sounds so much better than those little ones, which you can't even remember hearing.

But the one story stuff ...

At present most Vietnamese retailers are small, family run outlets, offering a limited choice of products to their customers.

The goods are examined in the presence of the clerk sent by the jewellery store to which they are consigned.