21.   Many, like online jeweler Blue Nile and clothing store Estyle, offer products that general merchandise stores do not, to reduce the threat of price competition.

22.   Most banks, schools and post offices closed, though the stock exchange in Milan stayed open, as did most stores.

23.   New ones are cheap and not that hard to install, but have the store do the work anyway.

24.   Of course, one store can do only so much for the troubled jeansmaker.

25.   Off-price stores did well.

26.   Others, like Home Depot, are making their stores do double duty as warehouses and distribution hubs.

27.   Rubin said that on the simplest level, e-commerce sites were starting to include background music, just as stores do.

28.   Some stores are doing well.

29.   The college administration wants to run the store as it does its profitable parking operations.

30.   The Harlem store did well, until the dispute with Shange turned bitter.