Most of the shops have a penchant for stocking intriguing goods that more commercial emporiums might consider too quirky to handle.

The business stocked footwear, saddlery, stationery and sporting goods.

The resort also had a store that stocked canned goods and other supplies.

A lot of it was copies - citymades, usually, but some of the richer shops stocked goods smuggled in by the halfmen from Outside.

The company was the subject of claims in February 2010 that it demands up to €500,000 per supplier for stocking goods.

Mr. Irizarry, 52, holds two jobs, stocking goods in a school kitchen by day and cleaning classrooms in another school by night.

After she castigated the store manager for stocking inferior goods - "Look at the wrinkles!

Family Dollar plans to use market basket analysis to help maintain sales growth while moving towards stocking more low-margin consumable goods.

Understandably, retailers are unenthusiastic about stocking goods whose packages bear no green spot.

"We live in the age of the discounter," he said, explaining that any number of competitors could encroach on the Container Store by stocking similar goods.