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Illustration - Art Deco - Paris

FRANCE. PARIS (75) (7TH DISTRICT) THE ?BON MARCHE? DEPARTMENT STORE. IN ART DECO STYLE, ONE OF THE STORE'S GLASS ROOFS. ARMAND MOISAN STAINED GLASS WINDOWS Photo by Jean-Francois Rollinger/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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China: Cat Rescued After Getting Head Stuck Under Jewelry Store Shutter

On July 6, 2025, in Fujian, China, a kitten got its head stuck under a jewelry store’s rolling shutter. The shop owner and his wife rescued it minutes later, unharmed, though his wife was in tears. Netizens urged pet owners to check doors carefully.

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Bear killed after 2-day rampage through Japan supermarket

A minitruck carrying a bear which was trapped and killed after a two-day stay in a supermarket is seen leaving the facility in Akita, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 2, 2024. The animal attacked a male employee and ate from the store's meat section, according to police.

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At Least 89 People Remain Missing After Floods - Eastern Spain

The owner of the Todolar hardware store shows the store's facilities after the passage of the DANA, on November 6, 2024, in Pedralba, Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain. Pedralba is a municipality in Valencia in the Serranos region of just over 3,000 inhabitants whose streets are still waterlogged with mud. The Military Emergency Unit (UME), together with volunteers empty houses and check their structures for damage that may affect the safety of the neighbors, as well as accumulate water and mud to clear the streets. The municipality has had to lament the death of three inhabitants as a consequence of the DANA. Photo by Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japan crown princess, daughter at embroidery exhibition

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko (2nd from L) and her daughter Princess Kako (L) visit an exhibition of Japanese embroidery at Takashimaya department store's Nihombashi outlet in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2024. (Pool photo)

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Japan crown princess, daughter at embroidery exhibition

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko (2nd from L) and her daughter Princess Kako (L) visit an exhibition of Japanese embroidery at Takashimaya department store's Nihombashi outlet in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2024. (Pool photo)

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Japan crown princess, daughter at embroidery exhibition

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko (2nd from L) and her daughter Princess Kako (L) visit an exhibition of Japanese embroidery at Takashimaya department store's Nihombashi outlet in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2024. (Pool photo)

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10 mil. yen gold bowl stolen from Tokyo department store

Photo taken on April 11, 2024, shows Takashimaya department store's Nihombashi outlet in Tokyo's Chuo Ward. A pure gold bowl priced at over 10 million yen ($65,000) was stolen from an exhibition held at the store the same day, with police seeking a man caught on camera taking the item.

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10 mil. yen gold bowl stolen from Tokyo department store

Photo taken on April 11, 2024, shows Takashimaya department store's Nihombashi outlet in Tokyo's Chuo Ward. A pure gold bowl priced at over 10 million yen ($65,000) was stolen from an exhibition held at the store the same day, with police seeking a man caught on camera taking the item.

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Seibu department store logo

File photo taken Aug. 30, 2023, shows a logo sign atop Seibu department store's flagship location in Tokyo's Ikebukuro area.

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Seibu Ikebukuro workers strike

Photo taken on Aug. 31, 2023, shows a notice placed at Seibu department store's flagship Ikebukuro location in Tokyo's Toshima Ward, announcing its forced closure due to a labor strike.

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Starbucks Oil Tank Store Appears in Hangzhou

HANGZHOU, CHINA - AUGUST 20, 2023 - People buy coffee at a Starbucks store converted from a large oil tank in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Aug. 20, 2023. The 400th Starbucks store in Hangzhou is rebuilt from a large oil tank in Xiaohe Park. The store's unique artistic light and shadow effect makes the oil tank show a different light and shadow atmosphere day and night.

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Starbucks Oil Tank Store Appears in Hangzhou

HANGZHOU, CHINA - AUGUST 20, 2023 - People walk outside a Starbucks store that was converted from a large oil tank in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Aug. 20, 2023. The 400th Starbucks store in Hangzhou is rebuilt from a large oil tank in Xiaohe Park. The store's unique artistic light and shadow effect makes the oil tank show a different light and shadow atmosphere day and night.

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Starbucks Oil Tank Store Appears in Hangzhou

HANGZHOU, CHINA - AUGUST 20, 2023 - People walk outside a Starbucks store that was converted from a large oil tank in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Aug. 20, 2023. The 400th Starbucks store in Hangzhou is rebuilt from a large oil tank in Xiaohe Park. The store's unique artistic light and shadow effect makes the oil tank show a different light and shadow atmosphere day and night.

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Starbucks Oil Tank Store Appears in Hangzhou

HANGZHOU, CHINA - AUGUST 20, 2023 - People taste coffee at a Starbucks store converted from a large oil tank in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Aug. 20, 2023. The 400th Starbucks store in Hangzhou is rebuilt from a large oil tank in Xiaohe Park. The store's unique artistic light and shadow effect makes the oil tank show a different light and shadow atmosphere day and night.

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Starbucks Oil Tank Store Appears in Hangzhou

HANGZHOU, CHINA - AUGUST 20, 2023 - People taste coffee at a Starbucks store converted from a large oil tank in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Aug. 20, 2023. The 400th Starbucks store in Hangzhou is rebuilt from a large oil tank in Xiaohe Park. The store's unique artistic light and shadow effect makes the oil tank show a different light and shadow atmosphere day and night.

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Starbucks Oil Tank Store Appears in Hangzhou

HANGZHOU, CHINA - AUGUST 20, 2023 - People taste coffee at a Starbucks store converted from a large oil tank in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Aug. 20, 2023. The 400th Starbucks store in Hangzhou is rebuilt from a large oil tank in Xiaohe Park. The store's unique artistic light and shadow effect makes the oil tank show a different light and shadow atmosphere day and night.

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Starbucks Oil Tank Store Appears in Hangzhou

HANGZHOU, CHINA - AUGUST 20, 2023 - People taste coffee at a Starbucks store converted from a large oil tank in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Aug. 20, 2023. The 400th Starbucks store in Hangzhou is rebuilt from a large oil tank in Xiaohe Park. The store's unique artistic light and shadow effect makes the oil tank show a different light and shadow atmosphere day and night.

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Starbucks Oil Tank Store Appears in Hangzhou

HANGZHOU, CHINA - AUGUST 20, 2023 - People walk outside a Starbucks store that was converted from a large oil tank in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Aug. 20, 2023. The 400th Starbucks store in Hangzhou is rebuilt from a large oil tank in Xiaohe Park. The store's unique artistic light and shadow effect makes the oil tank show a different light and shadow atmosphere day and night.

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Starbucks Oil Tank Store Appears in Hangzhou

HANGZHOU, CHINA - AUGUST 20, 2023 - People walk outside a Starbucks store that was converted from a large oil tank in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Aug. 20, 2023. The 400th Starbucks store in Hangzhou is rebuilt from a large oil tank in Xiaohe Park. The store's unique artistic light and shadow effect makes the oil tank show a different light and shadow atmosphere day and night.

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Starbucks Oil Tank Store Appears in Hangzhou

HANGZHOU, CHINA - AUGUST 20, 2023 - People walk outside a Starbucks store that was converted from a large oil tank in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Aug. 20, 2023. The 400th Starbucks store in Hangzhou is rebuilt from a large oil tank in Xiaohe Park. The store's unique artistic light and shadow effect makes the oil tank show a different light and shadow atmosphere day and night.

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Starbucks Oil Tank Store Appears in Hangzhou

HANGZHOU, CHINA - AUGUST 20, 2023 - People walk outside a Starbucks store that was converted from a large oil tank in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Aug. 20, 2023. The 400th Starbucks store in Hangzhou is rebuilt from a large oil tank in Xiaohe Park. The store's unique artistic light and shadow effect makes the oil tank show a different light and shadow atmosphere day and night.

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Starbucks Oil Tank Store Appears in Hangzhou

HANGZHOU, CHINA - AUGUST 20, 2023 - People walk outside a Starbucks store that was converted from a large oil tank in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Aug. 20, 2023. The 400th Starbucks store in Hangzhou is rebuilt from a large oil tank in Xiaohe Park. The store's unique artistic light and shadow effect makes the oil tank show a different light and shadow atmosphere day and night.

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Starbucks Oil Tank Store Appears in Hangzhou

HANGZHOU, CHINA - AUGUST 20, 2023 - People walk outside a Starbucks store that was converted from a large oil tank in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Aug. 20, 2023. The 400th Starbucks store in Hangzhou is rebuilt from a large oil tank in Xiaohe Park. The store's unique artistic light and shadow effect makes the oil tank show a different light and shadow atmosphere day and night.

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Starbucks Oil Tank Store Appears in Hangzhou

HANGZHOU, CHINA - AUGUST 20, 2023 - People walk outside a Starbucks store that was converted from a large oil tank in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Aug. 20, 2023. The 400th Starbucks store in Hangzhou is rebuilt from a large oil tank in Xiaohe Park. The store's unique artistic light and shadow effect makes the oil tank show a different light and shadow atmosphere day and night.

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Starbucks Oil Tank Store Appears in Hangzhou

HANGZHOU, CHINA - AUGUST 20, 2023 - People walk outside a Starbucks store that was converted from a large oil tank in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Aug. 20, 2023. The 400th Starbucks store in Hangzhou is rebuilt from a large oil tank in Xiaohe Park. The store's unique artistic light and shadow effect makes the oil tank show a different light and shadow atmosphere day and night.

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Iconic Tokyo store closes

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Tokyu Department Store's flagship store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Jan. 31, 2023, the day it closed down for good after operating as a landmark of the area for more than 50 years.

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Iconic Tokyo store closes

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Tokyu Department Store's flagship store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Jan. 31, 2023, the day it closed down for good after operating as a landmark of the area for more than 50 years.

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Iconic Tokyo store closes

Photo taken on Jan. 31, 2023, shows Tokyu Department Store's flagship store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward, on the day it closes down for good after operating as a landmark of the area for more than 50 years.

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BELGIUM-BRUSSELS-WINTER SALES

(230103) -- BRUSSELS, Jan. 3, 2023 (Xinhua) -- An advertisement of winter sales is seen on a store's window in Brussels, Belgium, on Jan. 3, 2023. Belgium's 2023 winter sales take place from Jan. 3 to Jan. 31. (Xinhua/Zheng Huansong)

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Retailers launch blitz to sell New Year's dishes

OSAKA, Japan - Samples of "osechi" traditional New Year's dishes are shown at Hankyu Department Store's Umeda Main Store in Osaka, western Japan, on Sept. 24, 2014, at the start of a campaign to accept orders from consumers.

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Leica Camera's shop in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - A "Maiko" apprentice geisha examines a Leica camera at the German camera maker's store in Kyoto, its seventh directly managed shop in Japan, on March 14, 2014, ahead of the store's official opening the following day. The Leica Kyoto shop is a two-story "machiya" traditional house, originally built some 100 years ago.

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Mitsukoshi marks centenary of lion statues with jelly cakes

TOKYO, Japan - An employee at Mitsukoshi Department Store's main outlet in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, holds sweet "yokan" bean jellies produced to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the erection in 1914 of two lion statues in front of its entrance. The flagship store of the Mitsukoshi chain will put the cakes on sale on April 1.

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Osaka fair features "ekiben" boxed meals from across Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Shoppers crowd a food exhibition featuring "ekiben" boxed meals from train stations across Japan at Hankyu Department Store's Umeda flagship outlet in Osaka on Jan. 22, 2014.

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Hankyu department store opens Osaka outlet

OSAKA, Japan - Customers enter Hankyu department store's refurbished Umeda flagship branch in central Osaka, which opened all the shop spaces on Nov. 21, 2012, following its partial opening in late October.

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Hankyu department store opens Osaka outlet

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows Hankyu department store's refurbished Umeda flagship branch in central Osaka, which opened all the shop spaces on Nov. 21, 2012, following its partial opening in late October.

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Hankyu department store opens Osaka outlet

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows Hankyu department store's refurbished Umeda flagship branch in central Osaka, which opened all the shop spaces on Nov. 21, 2012, following its partial opening in late October.

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Barneys New York opens Fukuoka outlet

FUKUOKA, Japan - Customers enter Barneys New York Inc.'s fifth outlet in Japan that opened on Sept. 16, 2011, in the city of Fukuoka. About 300 people lined up at the U.S. upscale department store's first outlet in the southwestern Japanese main island of Kyushu.

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Barneys New York opens Fukuoka outlet

FUKUOKA, Japan - Crowds of customers browse in Barneys New York Inc.'s fifth outlet in Japan that opened on Sept. 16, 2011, in the city of Fukuoka. About 300 people lined up at the U.S. upscale department store's first outlet in the southwestern Japanese main island of Kyushu.

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Japanese-style doughnut shop in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - An employee holds up a steamed doughnut and a hot drink at doughnut shop ''wakka'' outlet, operated by Duskin Co., in Osaka on Feb. 15, 2011, during a media preview event ahead of the store's opening on Feb. 17.

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More men sensitive to cold, attracted to goods to keep warm

TOKYO, Japan - An employee poses with a colorful belly warmer tie in the male underwear section of Tobu Department Store's flagship shop in Tokyo's Ikebukuro area in December 2010. Sales of belly warmers at the department store tripled since September that year compared with the same period in 2009.

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Seibu dept. store's Yurakucho outlet closes

TOKYO, Japan - Officials and employees bow to customers as the Seibu Yurakucho department store in Tokyo closes on Dec. 25, 2010. The store, once a flagship outlet of the former Saison retail group, closed after 26 years as its business has faltered in the face of stiff competition from luxury and casual fashion brands in the country's prime shopping district.

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Paris Mitsukoshi closes after 39 years

PARIS, France - Employees of Paris Mitsukoshi bow as they mark the end to the store's 39 years of business, on Sept. 30, 2010, in Paris. The store, run by Japanese department store operator Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings Ltd., closed due to operating losses.

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Anime songs topping charts

TOKYO, Japan - A cut-out board of an anime character at a Tower Records music store in Tokyo's Shinjuku district stands in front of the store's corner for anime songs and soundtracks on Sept. 10, 2010. Theme songs and soundtracks from Japanese anime are topping music hit charts and making inroads into the mainstream J-pop music genre.

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HMV Shibuya closed on sales slump

TOKYO, Japan - Visitors at an outlet of HMV, a major retailer of CDs, DVDs and books, in Tokyo's Shibuya district look at a farewell message Aug. 22, 2010, the store's closing down day. HMV Japan K.K. decided to wind up its business in the trend-setting area due to sluggish sales at a time when many potential customers are seeking content online.

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HMV Shibuya closed on sales slump

TOKYO, Japan - A woman takes a cellphone shot of an outlet of HMV, a major retailer of CDs, DVDs and books, in Tokyo's Shibuya district Aug. 22, 2010, the store's closing down day. HMV Japan K.K. decided to wind up its business in the trend-setting area due to sluggish sales at a time when many potential customers are seeking content online.

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Hankyu Hanshin Department Store's central Kyoto outlet to close

OSAKA, Japan - Aerial photo shows the Shijo Kawaramachi Hankyu department store of Hankyu Hanshin Department Stores Inc. in Kyoto. The company announced it will close down the store in central Kyoto, which opened in 1976, around this fall.

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Hankyu Hanshin Department Store's central Kyoto outlet to close

KYOTO, Japan - Nobuaki Nitta, president of Hankyu Hanshin Department Stores Inc., speaks about a plan to close the company's major outlet in central Kyoto's Shijo Kawaramachi area at a news conference in Kyoto on Jan. 28, 2010. The Shijo Kawaramachi Hankyu store, which opened in 1976, will be closed down around this fall.

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Seibu Yurakucho department store set to close

TOKYO, Japan - Passersby walk in front of the Seibu Yurakucho department store in the Yurakucho district of downtown Tokyo on Jan. 26, 2010. Seven & I Holdings Co. plans to close the department store later this year due to the store's deteriorating performance, sources close to the matter said the same day.

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15-m tall Christmas tree lights up Tokyo department store

TOKYO, Japan - A lighting ceremony for a 15-meter tall Christmas tree, about the size of a five-story building and one of the largest in Japan, is held at the Mitsukoshi department store in the plush Nihonbashi shopping area in Tokyo on Nov. 2, 2009. The eco-friendly tree made of metal for repeated use and decorated with 25,000 light-emitting diode bulbs that require less power will be set up at the store's central hall until Dec. 25, store officials said.