all the local shops were known either by the name on the front of the shop , or the nationality or ethnic-identity of the family that owned , or rented that shop , and its stocks and shares , and did their business there small retailers , family run businesses across the globe , despite the supermalls and hypermarkets still the way most trade finishes up , from the roadside , to and from the town and the-city market-places and lined the streets and roads out ... and , of course , the stock-markets and money-markets ... she pondered .