31.   Locally, The Watch Gallery operates a store in North East Mall and Watches Etc. is set to open this fall in the new Grapevine Mills mall.

32.   Monoprix operates food stores under the names of Monoprix, Super Monoprix and Inno.

33.   New Kerr Drug, a closely held corporation, plans to operate the stores under the name Kerr Drug.

34.   Neither bookseller collects sales tax on Web purchases made in California, even though they both operate stores here.

35.   Nob Hill Foods is not named after the San Francisco neighborhood of the same name, and it does not operate any stores in the city.

36.   Now the company operates stores as far away as Atlanta, Philadelphia, Houston and Troy, Mich.

37.   Pathmark once operated stores in Connecticut but retrenched in New Jersey after a leveraged buyout left it heavily in debt.

38.   PC Upgrades operates one store in Cincinnati.

39.   Presto, which operates smaller stores, mainly in Scotland, already carries Safeway own-brand products and shares distribution with its larger sibling.