| Midtown gets mighty crowded, but it's the place to go for department stores and designer emporiums. |
| They spend their days smoking water pipes and drinking coffee at emporiums on the edge of the desert. |
| Dozens of high-end emporiums began to stock the company's signature purple boxes of truffles, and hotel chains signed on as customers. |
| But the modern emporia will offer lower prices and, presumably, higher quality. |
| After all, it seems that his French stores are more deeply loved than his increasingly deserted UK emporia. |
| Glasgow's restaurants and retail emporia lead the way in beating recession through manic shopping. |
