Sentences with phrase «big chains such»

What's your feeling on the retail market in Canada, with several big chains such as Future Shop closing down?

In addition, there are bigger chains such as Walmart and Krogers — and even other Meijer stores — in the market.

Bigger chains such as Marriott and Hilton sold off most of their ownership interests some time ago choosing simply to maintain long - term management or franchise agreements at the properties...

Not exact matches

Hari has been able to convince big chains to make system - wide changes in the past by isolating one or two ingredients, such as the «yoga mat chemical» or corn syrup, that she feels are especially dangerous for customers and would be feasible for the company to cut.

Over the past few decades, the sale of such goods migrated largely to big - box multinational chains, where employees couldn't care less about answering customers» questions or concerns.

As such, big merchants and retailers such as donut - and - coffee chain Tim Hortons, which recently showed off cashless payments, are geared up and ready.

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.

They will also impact many of Wal - Mart's big retail rivals, such as Target Corp (TGT.N), and fast - food chains like McDonald «sCorp (MCD.N).

The company said Thursday it sold a majority stake to an affiliate of Roark Capital Group, an investor in such big - name fast - food chains such as Carl's Jr., Hardee's and Arby's.

That would give it control of a big part of the supply chain of vital phone components such as Wi - Fi and cellular modem chips.

Mr Clarke has wrestled with the big supermarket chains such as Tesco and Sainsbury in the United Kingdom earlier in his career, when he was running Premier Foods with a portfolio of products including Bisto gravy, Mr Kipling cakes and Sharwood's Asian flavours.

As the fresh produce industry integrates new technologies throughout the supply chain, China has emerged as a leader in some key areas, especially technologies that reduce friction points for the consumer such as mobile payments (with an estimated 94 % penetration rate in first tier cities), app - based food delivery and, a big buzzword in China right now, «O2O,» or online - to - offline — which describes a range of technologies and strategies for using internet - based tools to facilitate brick - and - mortar sales, and vice versa.

«Investing in such a big acreage transition is a first of its kind for General Mills and is another step in growing our organic supply chain,» said John Church, chief supply chain officer at General Mills in a press release.

There is also fierce competition in a market dominated by big supermarket chains such as Woolworths and Coles which makes it «difficult to get price realisation».

ArrowStream empowers some of the nation's largest food chains, such as Golden Corral, Popeyes, Jamba Juice, and more, to quickly uncover the biggest savings opportunities and proactively address the most pressing threats in their supply chains by centralizing inventory, contract, and quality assurance information.

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

If he's able to find receivers like Bennie Fowler, Tony Lippett and Macgarrett Kings, Jr., on third - and - 5 or 7, and if he's able to avoid negative plays on such downs, Michigan State could keep the chains moving, shrink the game, and make enough stops to take the Big Ten title.

That's a big human health concern in the Arctic, where people top the food chain, eating large predators such as seals and whales.

Sure enough, he ate his protein and did his training, but no one expected such a spectacular physique, much less someone moving big swords and chains with such ease.

Your body is an incredibly big chain of chemical reactions and they all have some waste such as ketones, nitrogen or urea, especially when you're eating a diet with a lot of protein.

Mercury — studies show that mercury from pollution (coal burning plants are the biggest source of mercury pollution to air and water) and from fish that are high on the food chain such as tuna, shark, swordfish, tilefish, etc can possibly cause long term negative effects on your brain.

These stages include a mixture of goals (such as trying to score big, last long, perform large chains, and get dangerously close to enemies a certain amount of times) and conditions (such as restricted movement, time limits, and having to avoid fruit).

Officials also provided a rundown of the companies that have agreed to participate in the endeavor, including big - name corporations such as AT&T, Borders Inc., Century 21 Real Estate Corp., Citibank, Coca - Cola, General Motors, and drug store chain CVS Corp..

But this is misinformation or spin by those who would like it to be true, such as the Big Five, or bookstore chains who make their money from selling Big Five books.

Here in Canada, a good strategy is to skip the big name brands and try upper mid-range clothing chains such as Zara and Banana Republic.

One of the biggest draws, says Sellmer, is the neighbourhood's proximity to amenities, such as grocery stores and chain - restaurants.

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.

We are independent and locally run, and as such you will get the personal touch not found in big chain hostels.

Consumer Reports magazine has reported that they more frequently got the best prices for big hotel chains by going directly to the hotel website rather than through a consolidator such as Expedia, Orbitz or Hotels.com.

Places such as GameStop, Best Buy, Walmart, and Target are all big retail chains that gamers will keep their eyes on.

The PSP heralded the biggest leap in this area with titles such as Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core and God of War: Chains of Olympus, and the original DS soon -LSB-...]

The battle system was such a big change that many long - time fans wrote off Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories as an unimportant spinoff game.

I further thought out an overarching process for the series in which I visit multinational chains and big box stores such as Walmart, IKEA, TJMaxx, Home Depot etc. and look carefully through their aisles searching for objects that through the process of re-contextualization could point to the subject at hand.

This has really set people free from the traditional tendering and procurement process, and it's been such a big part of the vibe both within our company Delta, but also within the supply chain, and we've been actually having a lot of fun along the way.

Future Generali General Insurance is a joint venture between Future Group, which owns some of the most popular retail chains in India such as Big Bazaar and Pantaloon, and Generali Group, a leading insurance company based in Italy with strong presence in Europe.

JD's BaaS service will provide blockchain tools for developing apps in areas such as supply chain data tracking; public services, such as government taxation and authenticating charity donations; financial settlement and securities remittance; fraud prevention in insurance; and big data security.

Nonetheless, LN, as an «off - chain» scaling solution, won the praise of Microsoft last month as the computer giant said it would favor such solutions over «on - chain» ones such as the bigger blocks proposed by altcoin Bitcoin Cash.

Last week, Microsoft threw its weight behind the latter option, at the same time decrying alternative «on - chain» scaling methods such as bigger block sizes as «degrading decentralization».

One such person named Raj Soni even promised bigger returns if Sputnik's undercover correspondent helped rope in more people into the investment chain, which works as a multilevel marketing scheme in India.

Several things are holding it back, including the current generation of Realtors themselves, purposeful proliferation of traditional ways of the market, monolithic and controlling real estate market heavyweights such as the MLS system, Zillow and the big franchise chains (e.g. Century 21).»

«It's such a shame how much food is thrown away at a retail level,» says Seifert who has lobbied big grocery store chains to donate more and throw away less.

And while some of its peers in the big - box space, such as Office Depot, can experiment with smaller stores because their customers come in looking for specific products that can be ordered through the chains» websites, a bookstore is too much about the experience of exploring new products in person for that to be a successful strategy for Barnes & Noble, notes Montgomery.