She said imaginative ways of looking at siting post offices have seen businesses opening in a pub in Tintern, a hatshop in north Wales and in a Chinese takeaway in England.
But growth is happening also because of changing buyer demographics and increased awareness about skin cancer, says Linda Pagan, who has owned The HatShop NYC in SoHo for 25 years.
He set up pyramids of plates to crash when people passed them, and rigged a mirror in a hatshop so that, when each matron posed simperingly before it, the glass cracked from side to side.