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...Cowan Research recently found the US has circa 49 square feet of retail space per capita, double the UK's 22 square feet and almost four times Canada's 13 square feet....
...“I get up every morning and go to the same Dunkin’ Donuts. The woman behind the counter knows my order....
...At Toys R Us in Times Square on Thursday night, Yamid Cala, a Colombian tourist, walked away with a PlayStation 3 and other gadgets he had targeted before he left home in Bogotá. “It’s crazy....
...Last week, Starbucks announced a partnership with Square, a mobile payments start-up, and this week Dunkin’ Donuts launched its own mobile pay app....
...Coffee and techies go together like donuts and policemen, one the voracious consumer of the other. They have named programming languages after the stuff....
...On the first day of operations, customers lined up outside in frigid February temperatures and waited up to four hours just to enter the Pushkin Square restaurant....
...When the group moved to 25 Berkeley Square in 1992, it leased what was the area’s most expensive offices, at £55 per sq ft....
...For several weeks over the spring, the character of New York's Times Square underwent a dramatic change....
...No longer will shoppers blunder around supermarkets with a trolley and their shopping list on a scrap of paper. In his store of tomorrow, shoppers are guided by an intelligent, hand-held scanner....
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