Managements of the mall-based stores were unable to respond because they really had no merchandising skills.

Mothers Work Inc. owns most of the mall-based stores familiar to pregnant women.

It owns the American mall-based stores for Gloria Jean's Coffees.

So far, she said, the company's mall-based stores have been "very successful."

Having built its business, with mall-based retail stores - is typical of most jewelers-Friedman's in 1979 found itself in a difficult position.

Over the course of its first 70 years, he wrote, it had become a "quietly profitable family-run company" which by 1990 had 48 mostly mall-based stores.

On May 17, 2007, Discovery Communications announced it was closing its stand-alone and mall-based stores.

According to the prospectus, the superstores generate an average sale almost two times that of the mall-based stores.

"In the long term, it seems the only people who'll pay the outrageous rents are mall-based stores with more appeal to the masses than the classes."

These include mall-based stores, stores with coffee shops, extensive non-book offerings, and larger formats.