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What Business Does Every Small Town Need for Thriving Communities?

Small Biz Trends

Key Takeaways Essential Business Types: Small towns benefit from key businesses such as grocery stores, cafés, health and wellness centers, and specialty retail shops that cater to local needs and foster community engagement. Retail Shops Retail shops enable localized shopping experiences and cater to niche interests.

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Graf Lantz Seeks Growth Without Sacrificing Product Quality or Sustainability

Retail TouchPoints

We continue to be in some great design, museum and specialty stores. However, the brand has especially profitable relationships with the specialty retailers that focus on curating unique products from emerging and lesser-known brands. As we grew, the wholesale business was a big driver for discovery.

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Retail Statistics You Should Know

Small Biz Trends

The above small retail statistics indicate that small retailers are not at all small when it comes to contributing to the US economy. Specialty stores are often a part of small retail store businesses. Unlike department stores that sell a wide variety of items, specialty stores offer niche-specific products.

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Revived MKT Square brings opportunities to Brisbane’s north

Inside Retail

With a bustling market square at its centre, the energetic retail hub for locals and must-stop for passersby will boast a new full-line 3850sqm market-style Coles supermarket, a modern designed Coles precinct, new specialty stores, and internal and external architectural design concepts.

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Why it’s good to be a mall operator in the Philippines right now

Inside Retail

The booming retail business Aside from the retail properties, SM Investments also has a separate retail arm consisting of about 3850 department stores, supermarkets, hypermarkets and specialty stores. Same-store sales have been increasing at a rate above 6 per cent and twice that at its 74 department stores.

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Lifting the logo: Inside the rebrand of Thai supermarket Lotus’s

Inside Retail

To assess how Lotus’s measures up in this regard, we visited several regional stores, including one in the northeastern Thai city of Yasothon. The specialty store space is exhaustively leased, with seemingly not a single square metre of floor space being left unattended. Lotus’s at Yasothon is an example.

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CPG Gets by With a Little Kelp From Its Friends

Rangeme

The company’s products are sold via e-commerce and in specialty stores like Whole Foods and Sprouts, co-ops, regional chains, and independent stores. Barnacle Foods debuted six years ago and ships its products across the country, to consumers and specialty retailers.