At the ArtSpring store in Silver Spring,Maryland, visitors can buy products made by local artists and artisans.

VOA: special.2011.03.09

Abby Halloran,a manager at a Gamestop store in Clinton,Maryland,says these are meant for ages seventeen and older.

VOA: special.2011.07.04

It recently opened its first store in India, a joint project with the Bharti group, in Amritsar.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

Her father David Nemerov, owned a large clothing store in a costly area near Fifth Avenue.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

Another was David Herold, a young man who worked in a store in Washington.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

They owned a store in Brooklyn.

VOA: special.2009.06.21

The sun had barely risen, but the line outside of the Apple store in Bethesda,Maryland already stretched around the block.

VOA: standard.2010.04.03

At one Apple store in central London, staff chanted and cheered as they counted the seconds to the official launch.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

Outside the Hudson's Bay company store in downtown Vancouver, a line of people stretches down the block.

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

Lanny Green stands outside this grocery store in Arlington, Virginia,a suburb of Washington,DC.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

If you stayed only ten minutes in each store, it would take over eighty-six hours to complete your visit.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

Still, Ms.Halloran says M-rated games like Call of Duty, Halo and Fallout are the most popular games in the store.

VOA: special.2011.07.04

Benjamin was a quiet boy. For much of the time, his parents were busy working in his father's store.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

The workers would come into this store at seven oclock in the morning and work until twelve oclock at night.

VOA: special.2010.03.03