Sentences with phrase «box chains like»

Also, focusing on a warehouse - type outlet could enable Amazon to do something that the big - box chains like Walmart, Target and even Petco and PetSmart have been trying but unable to pull - off successfully — find a model that works in densely populated urban markets.

Not exact matches

UPS told Reuters it is now eyeing the furniture delivery business — one of the fastest - growing segments of online retail — with Amazon, Wayfair and other e-commerce companies competing for market share against chains like Crate and Barrel and big - box stores.

But it won't box up legumes for everyone: Agrocrop only accepts customers who place full - pallet, full - truck orders — customers like Loblaw, Sobeys, Walmart Canada and, internationally, the grocery chain Aldi.

Pashak's first line of retailers is specialty bike shops, but ideally he'd also sell through a high - end «lifestyle» chain like Restoration Hardware or even a big - box store that could handle the volume he anticipates.

Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods is sending tremors through the entire grocery industry — and raising concerns about the fate of delivery services like Instacart, whose carrot - logo boxes are ubiquitous at the popular food chain.

Or like the other day when I was driving and «Man in the Box» by Alice in Chains came on the radio and I was really psyched, but then it was followed by «Bennie and the Jets» which kinda ruined my entire afternoon.

Labor advocates say they want the state of Connecticut to tax companies that pay low wages to their employees, companies like big box retail stores and fast food chains.

The only possible conclusion: the chain are folded back and forth and are not extended like «spaghetti in a box».

Exercises like deadlift variations, glute ham raises, box squats, kettlebell swings and upright sled drags will build a strong and powerful posterior chain.

Name necklace arrived today on the exact day I was informed it would arrive lovely piece like the 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).

The desire to support the small (local) business owner vs the big box chain store is potent marketing these days and it sounds like some authors are trying to capitalize on that hip, trendy image.

The building is decorated to look like a fulfillment center, with chain - link fences along the walls and kitchens shaped like big Amazon shipping boxes.

Like other parts of the American economy, retailing has increasingly coalesced into big box discount stores, chains of stores in hundreds of malls around the country, and favoring the products of the biggest manufacturers.

Instead of going online, most shoppers are likely to choose a large big box chain store like Wal - Mart or Target for security reasons.

Being a small business these days can be difficult, and we would like to express our gratitude to the people that have supported small businesses in their communities instead of shopping at chains and big box stores.

Third, you must sell premium - quality animals — nothing small or cheap like big box or chain stores.

And unlike big - boxes like Petco and PetSmart, these chains have the look and feel of a locally owned retailer, complete with the high level of service that customers have come to expect from a neighborhood pet store.

If you're counting on the fact that you have little to no overlap in product selection with the big - box chains to help you rest easy, consider the fact that many independent chains like Bentley's Pet Stuff, Kriser's and Chuck & Don's — retailers that probably carry most, if not all, of the same food brands that you stock — have amped up their own home delivery services.

While the rise of the big - box pet chains and increased attention on pet products from mass retailers like Walmart have certainly tested the strength of many vendors» commitment to the independent pet store channel, it appears that the promise of Internet sales has proven particularly alluring to pet product manufacturers — and even some pet product distributors.

Altmejd's diverse and varied oeuvre includes his familiar platform - like structures punctuated by mirrored reliquaries of crystals, flowers, birds, and werewolf bodies and body parts, an inventive assortment of singular werewolf heads, clear Plexiglas boxes filled with an intricate tracery of gold chains, his spectacular aviary filling the Canadian Pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennale, uncanny part - bird part - human sculptures, a sculptural clock representing the temporal process of its making, and most recently colossal giants.

Some of the extended bits that Fadem pulled off in that time: sitting down on a rubber stool, kicking a hole through a stage that would eventually collapse in full, slamming a weird sort of metal gate / screen - door combination affixed to the building's wall, jumping into the East River and then reappearing inside of a barrel of vaseline that was treated to looked like toxic sludge, hurling himself into a pile of cardboard boxes and then sounding the world's most pathetic airhorn, addressing the performance's one heckler with a drawn - out gesture involving his middle finger, drinking a number of glasses of water in rapid succession before moving to a sort of thick, clear liquid that he repeatedly spit up and attempted to drink again (I heard an audience member worry that this would trigger a series of chain - reaction vomiting in the audience.

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.

Growing up with the sprawling suburbs, they are located on prime real estate along major highways — often in more convenient, high - traffic locations than the more remote spots where big - box retailers and specialty chains like Linens «n» Things congregate.

We're always striving for our rooms to feel unique to the family and not feel like the retail chain, big box store or boutique store.