21.   All merchants are not aware of these rules, so you may have to point them out.

22.   Airport merchants are not shy about trading on local themes.

23.   But in the Bronx, where another community group is trying to build a giant Pathmark shopping center, local merchants are among its biggest supporters.

24.   But Michelle Ahlmer, executive director of the Arizona Retailers Association in Mesa, said merchants are interested in their employees becoming familiar with the new currency.

25.   But there are a few merchants who will forgo proof of purchase if the item is obviously from their store, and even some who will give cash back.

26.   By mid-week, merchants were busy and guardedly optimistic.

27.   Checks would still be made to the exact amount, but merchants would be required to round up or down to the nearest nickel on cash purchases.

28.   Diamond merchants in midtown are Jews, most of them Hasidic.

29.   Dayton Hudson shows no sign of doing that, perhaps reasoning that good merchants should be able to sell everything.

30.   Drug merchants are invisible.