The shopkeepers are hiring more people.

They were respectable shopkeepers, young men...

For small shopkeepers, this poses both a challenge and an opportunity.

One can well imagine Chinese shopkeepers, butchers, and health care workers following this example.

For investors and businesses perhaps including India s small shopkeepers this is where the really interesting opportunities will emerge.

Palestinian households have resorted to purchasing food through credit with shopkeepers and neighbours, forgoing payment of utilities, and selling assets.

The shopkeepers tend to give you things like an onion or an aspirin, or a piece of gum, because they don't have small change.

Economic development Association of Women Shopkeepers and Traders of the Niger Action for Integrated Rural Developments and Support for social and economic activities of rural women, among others

The debate around opening the retail sector to foreign investment is currently being framed, on the one hand, by the need to modernize supply chains and, on the other hand, by the desire to protect small shopkeepers livelihoods.

So when Vodafone came in and saw this problem, this consumer pain point, they created some small change which they call Fakka, which literally sits and is given by the shopkeepers to people, and it's credit that goes straight onto their mobile phone.

The Chinese have exported their version of modern development to Tibet not only in terms of architecture and infrastructure, but also people wave after wave of them businessmen from Sichuan, prostitutes from Hunan, technocrats from Beijing, party officials from Shanghai, and shopkeepers from Yunnan.

And the people, well, maybe they dress a little differently... or talk a little differently here... but underneath they're the same as your nextdoor neighbor, and you probably know them all the cop on the beat, the kid selling papers... shopkeepers, lawyers, good people, bad people.

It says clearly that if big ranchers north of the Picketwire River win their fight to keep this territory in open reign, then all your truck farms and your corn, the small shopkeepers and everything, your kids' future, it will all be all over, be gone!