21.   It was a simple matter to narrow the list to Costa Mesa, which apparently has eight shops.

22.   It has no shop selling Celtic knickknacks, no pub with performances of ditties on the half-hour.

23.   Japan simply has more shops than it needs, and that is one reason that retail prices are high.

24.   Las Vegas has shops and malls that make your local upscale mall look like a two-bit strip center.

25.   Micro Center, Computer City and CompUSA offer good deals, have repair shops on site and take back defective equipment.

26.   One main street has several shops offering jewelry, art, handicrafts and traditional tourist items.

27.   Redmond is Microsoft, source of the American gross national product, which also has a shop in which it produces business monopolies and a little computer software.

28.   Sargent has a shop in Weston, Vt., and also sells through the Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Sundance, Orvis, and Garnett Hill catalogs.

29.   The Bay Area has many shops, clubs, newsletters, Web sites and even a San Jose cable television show devoted to the subject.

30.   The Australian fashion industry has a rising star in Collette Dinnigan, who has a shop just a few blocks off Oxford Street.