91.   Regulators fear that prices will rise if the purchase reduces competition, noting that prices have fallen in regional markets where both companies have stores.

92.   Richard Lipsky, an aggressive lobbysist for food merchants in Springfield Gardens and Laurelton, argues that those Queens neighborhoods have good stores.

93.   Saddled by debt and hurt by a recession, it had stores full of private-label merchandise that customers declined to buy.

94.   Roberds has six stores in the Dayton area, seven in the Atlanta area and eight in greater Tampa, Fla.

95.   Some online retailers also see increasing merit in having actual stores to sell their merchandise.

96.   Steve Oceretko is the owner of Arrowhead Bagel Co., which has a store in the Arrowhead Legends mall and another in Peoria.

97.   Sulka and Hermes have stores here, so does Steuben.

98.   Swiss manufacturer Swatch operates a chain of stores, and upscale Tourneau has nine stores including a location in Houston that opened last fall.

99.   The chain has no stores, however, in Kansas City, where Montana played the last two seasons of his NFL career.

100.   The chairman said Next will decide whether to expand in the U.S., where it has four stores, after evaluating holiday season results.