It is shown that the hyperspace of non-empty finite subsets of a space X is an ANR (an AR) for stratifiable spaces if and only if X is a 2-hyper-locally-connected (and connected) stratifiable space. 0. Introduction. For a space X, let F(X) denote the hyperspace of non-empty finite subsets of X with the Vietoris topology, i.e., the topology generated by the sets 〈U1, . . . , Un〉 = {A ∈ F(X) | A ...