Sentences with phrase «biggest national chains»

It sounded counterintuitive, he said, but the big national chains, ever fearful of bad publicity, include harsh penalties in their franchise agreements for failing health inspections.

But, that tends to throw a monkey wrench into the mix and the big national chains tend to shy away from this for one reason or another.

Competition is stiff for shelf space in Costco, Walmart, Target, Barnes & Noble, Supermarkets, Airport stores and other big national chains.

Raising the Bar The collective impact of the two big national chains, PetSmart and PETCO, and the privately owned and operated regional pet chains has been an improved and higher standard of retail merchandising.

Part of the reason for the increased spending is that many properties belong to big national chains that set specific standards their managed and franchised members must adhere to.

Not exact matches

«We've been in talks with mainstream retailers and have had face time with large distributors for big - name national grocery chains that want to carry our products so they can attract more ethnic buyers,» he says.

Most of Critchfield Meats» competition at the retail level is from big - box and national chains, including Kroger's, Whole Foods and Trader Joe's.

They may not have the major marketing budgets that national chains have, but smaller full - service chains have found effective strategies to endear themselves to consumers in a big way.Sometimes it's as simple as pacing the progress, often it involves menu engineering, but always it demands agile and consistent execution.

Jonathan Newman, Chairman and CEO of Newman Wine, talked about the 10 biggest factors that can help brands get picked up by national chains and large retailers.

«This is happening because many of the county's largest property tax owners — national chains, big box retailers, developers, not residential property owners — are challenging their assessments, and many local assessors are not regularly or accurately assessing properties,» Poloncarz said.

The big break came only after investigators realized that many of the afflicted had shopped at a national warehouse grocery store chain.

And then whether it's a couple of times a year, you wan na get exposed to even bigger sources of nature, and then at the very tip top of the pyramid, it's like, you know, National Parks and massive places where you're just completely in undomesticated wilderness and that's sort of the top of the food chain.

A typical Sprinkles cupcake is no more than two inches wide, three inches tall — an impressively small size for something that's launched a national craze, a chain of chic bakeries, and has dazzled big names from the likes of Oprah Winfrey and Blake Lively to Bon Appétit and the New York Times.

New research by PwC published last weekend reveals that only three of the biggest academy chains has a positive value - added rating, whilst just one of the 26 biggest primary sponsors achieves results above the national average.

If you live in a big city and are looking for a bank you can easily and consistently access you might want to consider banking with a large, national chain.

Your chances of winning big with the fast - food chain are even worse than at the big national lotteries.

If you still bank at one of the big brick and mortar national chains, your interest rate is probably just as pitiful as mine.

The arrival of one of the national big box pet specialty chains was usually enough to get mom - and - pop pet retailers scouting for new locations and bracing their staff for inevitable layoffs or schedule reductions.

But even Chuck & Don's could not avoid the big boxes forever, and it wasn't long before the growing chain realized out of necessity that it could, in fact, effectively compete with the national pet retailers.

«We are not sold in the big - boxes or national grocery chains.

Whether you are talking about 10 - store single - state operations, 20 - store regional retailers or 1,000 - plus - store national big - box behemoths, it can not be overestimated what these chains have meant to the world of pet specialty retailing, particularly as the channel has faced increasing competition from mass retailers over the past several years.

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.

In fact, even as the national big - box pet stores and certain regional chains across the country expanded significantly from 2007 through 2012, the total number of pet store operators actually declined by eight percent over those five years, according to a December 2012 industry report from IBISWorld, a Santa Monica, Calif. - based market research firm.

In this circumstance, you are competing with national chains, as these make up a vast majority of the fish sold in big - box outlets.

Distributors can also help educate retailers about best practices in the pet world and new technology that can help them compete against bigger chains, including the national operations, without breaking the bank.

This includes probably all national chain «big box» operations.

It always feels wildly counterintuitive when a national chain or big box store hops on the eco bandwagon and introduces sweeping green initiatives or sustainably - spun house brands.

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Indeed, the list of competitors is long: large national wholesalers, manufacturers selling office supplies directly to business customers, dealers in adjacent categories, cooperatives of regional players, Internet resellers, big - box chains and club stores.

A diverse tenant mix including top brand outlets, department store outlets, big - box retalers, retail experiences (e.g., Bass Pro Shops, ESPN X Games Skatepark), lifestyle retailers, national restaurant chains and entertainment.

«I've also seen a big emergence of smaller chains that really have the ability to go national.»