It's an Amazon-like office supplier with no shop front, near zero inventory and a few staff.
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Australian rower Joshua Booth has been arrested after a shop front was damaged in a Surrey town.
If 10% of retail sales are now being done without the need for a shop front the fact that some 10% of shop fronts are not needed seems not all that surprising.
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He was fatally injured when the sign, which was about 9m (30ft) long and had covered the length of the shop front, fell on to the pavement at about 17: 00 GMT.
On Tripoli Street - where the scars of war are at their most livid - residents have assembled a collection of munitions, some intact, others in pieces, and arranged them outside a bullet-riddled shop front into a makeshift display.
Now that BA has realized that an increasing number of its customers are eschewing shop front staff and call centers for the ease of online booking, the airline is closing the shutters on 17 of its U.K. Travel Shops and a Belfast-based customer call center.
To achieve that sort of number means massive migration online from shop-front or factory-door commerce.
Then I looked out of the front of the shop next door and I saw the fireball explosion.
Adorning the front of the shop are photos, letters and memorabilia from happy customers--some who got married in their brawny black Limmers.
Apart from an idle man halfheartedly flipping through a book of local attractions, there was no one in the front of the shop, where miniature carved boats and model fish aged unwanted on the shelves.
Mr Hamilton said the device was found on the footpath in front of the Spar shop after the fire service attended the blaze there at 03:00 GMT.
What was most disturbing about that situation was that Iraqi army and police had blocked off one of the main streets of the capital because there was a suspicious car parked out the front of the kebab shop.
There may be a life-size polar bear in a cowboy hat and hula skirt standing in front of a tourist shop that makes for memorable souvenir photos, and one could argue that any item is for sale if you make the right offer, but if it isn't specifically there to be sold, it doesn't count.
The front room of the shop had been filled with the smell of meat, and my grandfather had stood and looked around at the hams and sausages hanging from the rafters, soup bones and square bacon slabs in the cold counter window, the skinned red lamb with its sharp little teeth lying on the block while Luka cleaved the bone of the leg away.
When it stopped, we looked outside and saw the shop we were heading to - the front of it had collapsed.
The bakery in Headington, Oxford has reported problems with pigeons flying through the front door and across the shop floor helping themselves to food.
Yang Yeng, a shopkeeper selling batteries, candles, and flashlights on the street in front of his still darkened shop in the East Village, said his T-Mobile phone was useless in the area.
Jason Long works at Off Post Barber Shop, located just outside Fort Stewart's front gate.
In front of a newly-opened phone shop, the sales assistant flashed an iPhone to the Foxconn employees, with everyone focused on his every "cool" gesture, as if it was something new.
Last December, in a transaction surreal even by Russian standards, Yuganskneftegaz, Yukos's main production arm, was forcibly sold in another rigged auction, to a front company registered at a provincial grocery shop.
Two women from Waxahachie huddled on a bench in front of the Yellow Rose, another souvenir shop.
The fact that no one at the resort front desk and only one of the pro shop staff knew of its existence was emblematic of the overall service experience.
The next morning, Biden is in front of another rapt audience at a Cedar Rapids coffee shop.
Charles Lubin, the Chicago baker who in 1949 named his shop after his eight-year-old daughter, sweated in front of an oven perfecting cheesecakes and sponges that would still taste good after being frozen.
The van, owned by retail shop Shuang You Communications, heads to a nearby village and parks in front of the town hall.
The first shop was set up for the big day with a clearance tent out front full of last year's shoes and pedals.
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Indeed, while some shop, many visitors simply hang out, chat with friends and take photos in front of the many nostalgic backdrops.
To avoid dying in a famine, the brain is wired to pick up on signs that calorie-rich foods are nearby, which helps explain why that piece of cake on the plate in front of you is so irresistible, or why seeing a sign for a doughnut shop draws you in even when you know you need to watch your diet.
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