11.   Shopkeepers shuttered their stores, in some cases under threat by masked youths.

12.   Several national retail chains, including Wal-Mart Stores Inc., had to shutter stores for several days last January after the storm.

13.   Stores were shuttered and streets emptied as the crowd surged through the center of town.

14.   Stores were shuttered, and shopkeepers sat idly on their stoops waiting for power to be restored.

15.   Sunglass Hut International Inc. reported a fiscal fourth-quarter loss on slow sales and the costs of shuttering more stores.

16.   There is an option now rather than shuttering their stores.

17.   They have not been spotted here for the past three weeks, and the store is shuttered.

18.   While Penske has been bulking up his business, Kmart has been shedding businesses and shuttering stores to improve its badly bruised retailing business.

19.   Down the street, Ahmed Qalub shuttered his store, where he sells party favors, deciding now was not the time for festivities.

20.   In the normally bustling shopping streets around the Puerta del Sol, many stores were shuttered.