11.   Employees of other stores on the block said the show store was usually operated by Bae, his wife and a clerk, identified as Junior Gonzalez.

12.   Employees of other stores on the block said the shoe store was usually operated by Bae, his wife and a clerk, identified as Gonzalez.

13.   Gap Inc., another apparel retailer, said its same-store sales were flat, as did the TJX Companies, which operates off-price stores.

14.   Gap currently operates stores outside the U.S. in places including Europe, Japan and Canada.

15.   Guitar Center operates seven stores in the Los Angeles area and has moved into the Florida, Michigan and Ohio markets recently.

16.   He said increasing numbers of alpaca owners operate stores to sell products made of alpaca wool.

17.   However, it will operate the store during the holiday season, starting Monday, with five floors of Christmas decorations and gifts.

18.   Hughes Family Markets operates stores in Los Angeles, Orange County and three other southern California counties.

19.   In Southern California, FAO Schwarz operates a store at the Glendale Galleria and is opening one at the expanded Farmers Market in Los Angeles.

20.   In those cases, the chain may decide to operate two stores, a double-anchor concept that it pioneered.