Hidden at the bottom of this story: potential good news for
big chains offering or experimenting with delivery: a cold winter (and spring) doesn't seem to have affected delivery numbers.
Not exact matches
Multiple and ever - changing
offerings are fueling
big chain names like Crunch, Planet Fitness and Anytime Fitness.
I read that the hip New York City diner
chain Big Daddy's and seafood restaurant City Crab
offered free birthday meals (with varying restrictions) to anyone who signed up for their Insider Clubs.
Panera Bread
offered an update on its food policy on Wednesday, saying it has taken
big steps toward reducing the use of antibiotics and confinement of animals in its supply
chain.
In partnership with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, or Sida, USAID is
offering up $ 25 million in grants, ranging from $ 100,000 to $ 3 million, for
big ideas that solve the water scarcity problems in the agricultural production
chain.
Kroger (KR), the nation's largest supermarket
chain, on Friday is expected to report second - quarter revenue that outpaces Wall Street's forecasts as the company has expanded its organic foods
offerings to offset the consumer shift away from
big box stores.
Big - box
chains beat out independent stores by undercutting them on price — but with the best deals now online, they have less to
offer.
Macmahon Holdings, which recently lost its chief executive after a
big earnings downgrade, has blamed a false email
chain discussing a supposed Chinese takeover
offer, for a temporary trading halt today.
The move from the world's
biggest coffee
chain also comes as smaller rivals such as Peet's Coffee and Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf also
offer non-soy dairy milk alternatives.
Grocery
chains and
big box retailers are aggressively expanding their locally grown
offerings.
PHILADELPHIA — Two black men arrested for sitting at a Philadelphia Starbucks without ordering anything settled with the world's
biggest coffee - shop
chain Wednesday for an undisclosed sum and an
offer of a free college education.
Wal - Mart, the world's
biggest retailer, made a $ 4.6 billion (32 billion rand)
offer on September 27th to acquire the South African retail
chain, Massmart Holdings.
The two men settled with the world's
biggest coffee - shop
chain Wednesday for an undisclosed sum and an
offer of a free college education.
Now, even the
big burger
chains offer smoothies for health conscious customers.
If you're a
big fan of onion rings from Burger King, you probably already know about the spicy dipping sauce
offered from the world's number two burger
chain (it's not always on the menu, and you usually have to request it).
Other
big - name pizza
chains like Mellow Mushroom and Pieology already
offer vegan cheese on their menus.
Big chain warehouse stores aren't the only ones to
offer the power of buying in bulk.
Fearing financial responsibility should any attack actually occur (a precedent foretold by a civil lawsuit in the Aurora, Colorado theater shooting at The Dark Knight Rises), the five
biggest theater
chains all took Sony up on their
offer and reneged on their plans to screen the movie.
In addition to protecting the book as a cultural good, it is also meant to protect smaller book stores from being outcompeted by large
chains offering big discounts.
Bigger chains like Borders, Barnes & Noble are the ones that seem to have the
biggest struggle to prove their worth against Amazon (they use to have value as they were larger and could
offer cheaper prices and stock more, but Amazon beats them on both counts.
There were already more established ereaders,
offered by more well - known companies, when they entered the market, and they had no
big retailer support, whereas in many of the international markets where they've gained a substantial following they were partnered with a major bookstore
chain and arrived before the Kindle was available.
A lot of
big retail
chains do
offer co-branded credit cards to their customers and these credit cards
offer rebates or discounts.
(Reuters)- Burger
chain Shake Shack Inc, which grew out of a hot dog stand in New York's Madison Square Park, has filed for an initial public
offering at a time when stock
offerings by casual restaurants have proven to be a
big hit with investors.
But then large
chains and
big - box stores began to
offer supplies, and the public had the perception that their prices would be better.
The company eschews periodic promotions in favor of a strategy that hinges on consistently
offering fair prices that are quite competitive with even the national
big - box
chains.
Considering that
big - box pet
chains have the money to invest and the floor space to spare, it is not surprising that they have been the most optimally suited to
offer such services.
Casa Isabel and Quinta Maria Cortez
offer a sweet dollop of luxury for less than the
big brand
chain hotels (you know which ones they are: — RRB -.
Member of the
Big Four Holiday Parks
chain, we
offer a money back guarantee plus other membership benefits.
As if that weren't enough, the Stash card
offers another example of the Stash philosophy of being better than the
big chains.
Choice Hotels, the other
big US budget
chain, is currently
offering a «mystery bonus» of 30 - 50 % when purchasing points in the Choice Privileges program.
Most
big chain stores
offer gift cards, including Target and Wal - Mart.
Elite Membership Levels & Benefits: Similar to the other
big chains, Hilton Honors
offers 4 levels of elite membership, with «Blue» being available by signing up, with limited benefits.
Independent hoteliers often work hard to make their properties unique from the
chain hotels — and a number of them will still
offer you Stash Rewards points, similar to the points you'd earn with a stay at the
big chain hotel.
Stash Hotel Rewards frees travelers from the uninspired
offerings of existing hotel reward programs by making it easy to break free from
big, bland hotel
chains and stay at amazing hotels.
Earlier this year, we saw a trend among the
biggest hotel
chains — including Hilton, Marriott, InterContinental and Best Western, among others —
offering exclusive discounts to members of their loyalty programs.
Big Kenyan supermarket
chains like France's Carrefour and Nakumatt have already started
offering customers cloth bags as alternatives.
Otherwise, we'll have to start leaving our houses and going to local, brick oven pizza joints where they make food that isn't mass produced and tastes way better than anything the
big chains can
offer.
In addition to
offering up the service with certain Best Buy locations, the world's
biggest smartphone maker announced today that it's struck a deal with uBreakiFix to bring the
offering to 300 + of the repair
chain's locations.
The advice,
offered by homesharing app Airbnb in a series of television commercials that have been airing in seven countries, promotes a vision of small - batch, artisanal travel that's more authentic than the dull, predictable quality of
big hotel
chains.