11.   Discounter stores are doing the best among retailers because of stronger sales of warm-weather products, such as lawn and garden tools, the report said.

12.   Eyeglass stores are doing it, with contact lenses of blood-red irises and eerie cat-eye designs.

13.   For Bermudez, the store has done that and more.

14.   For example, one Rite Aid in Boynton Beach tags Ambi cocoa butter soap, but the Riviera Beach store does not.

15.   Hardware stores carry a bewildering supply of bolts, even the Big Box stores do.

16.   He said the Apple store sometimes receives products weeks before his store does.

17.   However, a source said the store is doing hundreds of thousands of dollars of business a day.

18.   In addition to destroying local charm, opponents complain the stores have economic advantages that smaller stores do not.

19.   In addition, the store does alterations, a hard-to-find service because stretchy nylon requires special treatment.

20.   Just as clothing stores do not usually post signs telling shoppers about their outlets, airlines do not play up their Priceline partnerships.