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...The Debauve & Gallais stores resemble 19th-century apothecaries....
...Inditex, the Spanish owner of retail chain Zara, is preparing to reopen stores in Ukraine that it closed two years ago when war broke out with Russia....
...While the store is worth a visit year round, its ‘Christmas factory’ — from early November until late December — is a must-see and an almost certain source of festive souvenirs....
...I remember standing in M&S a few years ago, gasping at a small box of cherries costing £7....
...Standouts include a Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap box set of CDs, colourful jewellery made by artisans in Ghana, sweetgrass baskets hand-woven in South Carolina and a great kids’ section....
...decked with spiky-petalled flowers all cleverly staged in a bijou onyx black room that recalls a jewel box....
...With Buly, I had to do nine years in this box of being focused – 51 stores later, I am done. Now my team and I can do crazy, stupid things. I don’t care if not all of them make money....
...In 2014, bed-in-a-box brand Casper turned the market on its head with the pitch that you could buy a good, affordable bed online and never have to go to the store....
...The assistant, or consigliere, brandishes a box. “What are they?,” asks Blahnik. “Truffles? You’re so cruel…” Cue a farce around whether he can have one – or how many....
...It inhabited a disused bus garage between an adult video store and a head shop, in the still-shady King’s Cross....
...The memory of visiting Warhol’s Factory in 1977 seems to lift his whole demeanour. “I was at the Factory,” he begins, now puffing on a Cuban. “I was painted by Jamie Wyeth....
...Battery gigafactories in high-income countries are likely to meet the same fate as solar panel factories, television factories and, indeed, a previous generation of battery factories in high-income countries...
...Lots of warehouses, factories, and all that, where there is quite a lot of criminal activity, cable theft, copper theft....
...He stuffs his hand into a box and unwraps a large Santoku blade, and begins the assembly....
...Factories, ordinary businesses, and finance and banks. Money moves, thanks to these chips....
...Piferi has had to think outside the box and encourage his manufacturing partners to do the same....
...This year, though, the Trust is heading into the urban centre of Manchester to open a property that sits on the doorstep of Aviva Studios, home of Factory International and Manchester International Festival...
...Brian Dodge, president of the Retail Industry Leaders Association, which represents big box stores, said the prospect of a strike was having an effect....
...It caught the eye of a buyer from Liberty department store, which asked him to redesign its tea room....
...A glass box of almost unimaginable clarity, its appearance might lead a visitor to say, yeah, great, but where’s the art?...
...Periodically we found self-service bike repair posts beside the trail, equipped with pumps and spanners, and the odd book-swap box....
...Ellis has a workshop at his nearby home, so the store is equipped only with a few basic tools for tasks such as strap-fitting and simple maintenance....
...“I've had to make a similar call to stop working with a factory when they consistently failed to meet our deadlines....
...“Well, boys,” our school history teacher confidently proclaimed around 1958, “we don’t really know what the rest of the 20th century has in store for us, but you can at least be sure of this: religious oppression...
...Sophie Garnier runs online store Kalinko, specialising in homewares made by craftspeople in Myanmar....
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