Little was done to remove them and many went on to become small retailers in the area.

Small businesses, including smaller retailers, are the heart of our economy.

The 3 percent sales tax break is particularly attractive for small retailers.

The law is intended to protect Japan's many small retailers.

Soon after, most of the 103 small retailers in the mall followed suit.

But such a relationship costs a few thousand dollars a month, more than what many small retailers can afford.

Some smaller retailers seemed to have stayed home to mind their stores.

The city has said it delayed the project out of concern for smaller retailers in the area.

TV advertising is too expensive for the small, independent retailer.

And it has begun to do something about a major problem for small retailers: street vendors.

If you had been a small shopkeeper with some money why might you have done the same?

Openings are usually opposed by small shopkeepers, who can sometimes delay action for up to 10 years.

He was a small shopkeeper; now he's not even that.

Big companies can afford to hire health care specialists, but small shopkeepers cannot.

But now the stores are starting to meet resistance from small shopkeepers.

By 1900, all of Sutherland's mills and many small shopkeepers were gone.

This helped small independent shopkeepers in their resistance to larger traders.

South Korea already has its share of small shopkeepers.

The small shopkeeper will be asked to play an important role in the changeover process.

The main focus must be on schools, universities, small shopkeepers and the media.