Sentences with phrase «box chain as»

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As a result, Amazon was able to claim a significant portion of the big box chain's retail audience.

While their customer and financial data may not be as big of a catch as, say, that of Target or some other global big - box retail chain, there are plenty of opportunities to hit mom and pop operations.

Finances aside, Target's bigger challenges are stubbornly centred on unhappy customers whose loyalty has been stretched thin by a series of supply - chain snafus and prices that many perceived to be out - of - whack with both big - box competitors and the company's own reputation as a quality discounter.

The IPO market has been tepid despite a few high - profile splashes from companies such as the Shake Shack burger chain and online storage company Box.

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.

Toast Box is one of the most popular Singaporean food chains and serves unique toasty creations alongside artisan coffee, also known as «kaya toast and kopi» (jam with toast and coffee).

The box makes it a good choice for anyone looking to give this chain as a gift.

After I'm confident that the trainee masters the hip hinge movement and knows how to engage his glutes / posterior chain, I'll have him gradually progress on exercises such as the cable pull - through, plank with glute squeeze, box squat, and / or other similar exercises that put a lot of stress on the posterior chain.

I'll either load the bar to 80 percent of my box maximum, or add bands or chains so that the load is as close to 80 percent as possible.

This Carrie name pendant is made out of solid sterling silver, available as well in 24K gold and rose gold plating, and comes with a Box or Fine Rolo chain.

The Tahitian pendant is as simple as can be, a stunning teardrop with a simple loop finding on a box chain.

When opening the box, I knew I was going to keep one piece of jewelry as a treat to myself... but, I thought it would be the Kendra Scott earrings... however, this necklace is a real winner... Its ONE necklace, but looks like two necklaces with two chains.

Think big - box stores and chains like Home Goods, Target, and Urban Outfitters, as well as local boutiques and resale stores (we love The Brown Elephant in Chicago, for example).

As assistant manager of Cloud 9, the fictional big box chain in NBC's «Superstore,» Dina is intense.

You'll need to tick that box if you want to put chains for snow driving on as they don't fit the 20s.

Through boxed text, beautiful and abundant photos, and playful quizzes, the book groups information by such categories as habitat and hunting tactics, emphasizing predators» role in food chains and a healthy ecosystem.

Although existing as a chain of round - the - clock physical stores, the big - box retailer has a very similar looking online shopping portal, allowing the retailer to become the one stop shopping site for many consumers.

As a former employee for a big - box pet specialty chain responsible for research and development, Hackett understood consumer concerns long before launching the Petropics brands in 2005.

Even as other retail segments have watched their independent class of chain operators fold under the competitive might of big boxes and online outlets, the pet industry continues to hold ample opportunities for emerging and established retail chains to expand.

Internet competition, of course, has been robust, as Amazon and the big - box chains have become increasingly more invested in the aquatics category.

Meanwhile, the retailer has been juggling the pressure of competing with big - box chains — which are designed to be as self - serve as possible — while trying to maintain high levels of customer service, even as the cost of quality labor climbs.

Most were burdened with heavy, 3 - inch thick tow chains, with only chemical barrels and dilapidated wooden boxes intended as dog houses — this was the only life they had ever known.

Even in our full - line pet stores, live fish and aquarium products will continue to be a core competency, as well as another way to differentiate ourselves from the big - box store chains.

To put the growth of the big - box chains in context, PetSmart and Petco each added around the same number of stores as all of the other players on the Top 25 list combined during the same period.

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.

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.

As you will read in this month's cover story, it was widely reported this fall that Petco and PetSmart had begun discussions toward merging the two big - box pet chains — a development that would surely have far - reaching implications for the industry.

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

Concord has developed a reputation in the pet industry as a chain that thinks out of the box to get the job done.

Paul Kamm, vice president of sales and operations and a 19 - year veteran of the company, notes that Jack's Pets carries up to twice as many live fish as the big - box chains.

The relative success of the industry has created a tough competitive environment, where small, independent stores must go up against not only big - box retailers, but also online outlets that wield price and convenience as a weapon, and a rising class of chain retailers backed by the formidable resources of outside investors looking to get in on the lucrative pet market.

As you will read in our cover story this month, Mutschler and his team at corporate headquarters in Wilmington, Del., have developed a strategy that combines personal interaction, rational and flexible merchandising, and a sound pricing program that competes with the big box and mass chains.

But competition with the internet has changed the game for all retailers, even large chains and big box stores, which are being hurt just as much as, if not more than, independents.

As for its traditional stores, Brenner is confident that a combination of assortment, price and service is helping the chain stand out amongst its competition, including the big - box retailers that are well represented in Jack's marketing area.

This does not come as much of a surprise, as the stars seemed aligned against a possible merger between the two big - box pet specialty chains from the start.

The imagery explores the relationship between the uniformity seen in modern architecture and the sanitization of neighborhood character as brought about by continual infiltration of chains and big box stores.

Works shown include AD, Soap Box Tree (1963, destroyed), Binoculars (1963, destroyed), Candidate (1963; repainted as Silo, 1963 — 64), Capillary Action (1963), Early in the Morning (1963), He Swallowed the Chain (1963), Nomad (1963), 1, 2, 3, Outside (1963), Untitled (Two Chairs)(1963), and Untitled (1963; reworked as Tumbleweed, 1963 — 66).

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.

After encountering so many bare walls and open spaces, after examining so many amalgams of photography, altered objects, seductive materials and Conceptual puzzles awaiting deciphering, I started to feel as if it were all part of a big - box chain featuring only one brand.

Value - minded shoppers gave big boxes and discount chains most of their business, while middle - market retailers toughed it out amid competition from newcomers like Kohl's, which entered California this year, as well as rising costs related to security / terrorism and supply disruptions from the SARs outbreak and labor disputes.

Call them the chains gang: They're the top big box tenants in the nation and when it comes to where they choose to locate, whom they will accept as co-tenants and what they will pay, these powerful players call the shots.

Big - box users are shrinking their footprint, but the same applies to a number of smaller - space users and restaurant chains as well.

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.

The Buyers Guide, on the other hand, is distributed as a free publication at local grocery store chains, train stations, other metro - Chicago businesses, and in freestanding boxes.