The hyper-specialist shops of Berlin

This is Antstore, the world’s first specialist ant shop, a business with around two dozen employees, a glass-cutting workshop, plastic and plaster modelling studios and a full-time social media manager. It is just one of the surprisingly large number of shops in Berlin that sell only one thing, be it crawly insects, salty sweets, sticky tape or miniature string instruments. As much as 35% of the shop’s sales now take place online, and Kadó’s sticky confectionery is for sale in most of Berlin’s independent cinemas and even, wrapped in a designer box, in the luxury KaDeWe department store.

Source: www.theguardian.com