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...Foot Sportif on Mt. Auburn St. has also lost much of its business to larger chains that sell athletic footwear. City Sports, for example, moved into Holyoke Center last year...
...hard for the small, independent store to compete with the powerful chains," Le Foot Sportif owner Hezi Gabai says. "It would be pitiful to see the small store go, no matter if it is here or downtown on Main...
Even as recently as seven years ago, when Gabai opened Le Foot Sportif, the Square had a more eccentric feel...
...Foot Sportif's Gabai and other small business owners gaze monthly at their losses, they say they are comforted by one fact: in the end it is the consumer who will decide whether the Square becomes a mall or whether small business like their own will continue to figure prominently in the local landscape...
Manufacturers estimate the U.S. bike- clothing market at $30 million and say it is growing by 25% annually. The suppliers include more than 50 companies, from Japan's Descente and France's Le Coq Sportif to America's Protogs, Cannondale and L.L. Bean. Some 60% of the 6,500 bicycle shops in the U.S. now carry clothing next to the tubes and pumps, as compared with only about one-third ten years...