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Shopkeeping: Stories, Advice, and Observations

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Shopkeeping: Stories, Advice, and ObservationsA love letter to the small shop, and shop owners everywhere, by beloved bookseller Peter Miller. There is a tradition of shopkeeping, a tradition of codes, etiquette, and customs. For the most part, it is an oral history, passed along, person to person. You learn to be a retailernot by going to college, but by going to work. You learn from people who have learned how to run a shop. [from the Introduction] For more than four decades, Peter Miller has

A love letter to the small shop, and shop owners everywhere, by beloved bookseller Peter Miller.

“There is a tradition of shopkeeping, a tradition of codes, etiquette, and customs. For the most part, it is an oral history, passed along, person to person. You learn to be a retailer—not by going to college, but by going to work. You learn from people who have learned how to run a shop.” [from the Introduction]

For more than four decades, Peter Miller has run a design bookshop that shares his name in Seattle. He has also written three of his own books, manuals about cooking and about food and about eating together. In this love letter to his day job, Miller writes for the first time about his other love: shopkeeping.

Miller crafts stories from the bookshop floor with wry humor and skillful storytelling. Readers are taken on a shopkeeping journey and will come to understand along the way that small shops characterize our towns and cities, making them unique, special, and worth visiting and living near. This essay collection is for shop lovers everywhere and captures the art and heart of running a local shop treasured by the community that surrounds it. By the end, you can’t help wanting to own a shop.

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Tania Golubowsky
Charlottesville, US
★★★★★ 5
Great option
Got this pack of toys for my new Great Dane puppy. He is in a very intense chewing phase and so far these are holding up. He loves that they squeak, and make a crinkly noise in the legs. I love that there is no stuffing to clean up if he manages to get it open. They way the arms move and flail really makes him love these toys. Will buy again when he needs new ones.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2023
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Pamela Moffett
Los Angeles, US
★★★★★ 5
Great buy! My dogs love e them
My dogs love these things but don't last long with my crew. They aren't meant for aggressive chewers. Which mine are but I still buy them because my dogs love playing with them. I have one dog who is a pro at removing squeaky within 5 secs , no lie she's mastered it. Def do not leave your dog unattended. I immediately take the removed squeaky and toss it. My other dog gets the crinkle plastic out whi h I also throw away. They still play with them. I toss them when they are torn to shreds and replace them. My dogs are picky on which toys they like to play with. Which is why I keep buying them.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2025
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Kindle Customer
Lexington, US
★★★★★ 4
Not for aggressive chewers
My dogs enjoy them, but the terrier had holes in the head in minutes. Stuffing and squeaker didn’t last, but they enjoy the legs and crinkles.
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Happy Customer
Phoenix, US
★★★★★ 5
My dogs favorite toy!
Ordered for the 2nd time! My dogs destroy everything but these last!
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MarezCharZ
Birmingham, US
★★★★★ 5
Nothing is Chew Proof, but these do pretty well
My three 2-year-old Dutch Shepherds have killed every toy except their Kong balls. These octopus toys are hanging in there. My dogs are particularly driven by wiggling the appendages - They LOVE it. My Sheba who normally kills toys immediately has not yet destroyed her octopus. She's been holding it like a teddy bear, that is after she's worn out from throwing it around. I've thrown them in the washing machine and they come out great.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2023

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