Sentences with phrase «businesses over bricks»

«Although we completely agree that Internet businesses and transactions should not be burdened with discriminatory taxation, it is patently unfair to favor Internet businesses over bricks - and - mortar businesses that are an integral part of our communities.»

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Once primarily a scourge of traditional brick - and - mortar retailers, Amazon's cloud over U.S. business has spread to more corners of the economy and raised worries about where it could strike next.

The DOL's former head of wage enforcement, David Weil, recently suggested that weighing whether gig economy workers should be classified as employees or independent contractors is not so different than making the same determination for workers at brick - and - mortar businesses.84 Existing legal tests to determine whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor are multifactor, fact - based exercises based on the level of control a company exerts over the workers in question.

Devoted to patronizing locally owned brick - and - mortar businesses, it's been growing in popularity over the last seven years.

«They have no business trying to charge as much as the brick - and - mortar schools, at least over time,» said Finn, of the Fordham Institute, which has commissioned a study of the cost of online schools.

However, if you own a brick - and - mortar business targeting women over 60, for example, you probably do not have customers interested in reading a digital book.

Name recognition aside, the ongoing — and, arguably, accelerating — struggles of bricks - and - mortar retailers is taking a toll on business, with first - quarter profits and revenues declining year over year.

So, while Amazon is attempting to leverage some of the very same competitive strengths that have served brick - and - mortar pet stores well over the years, traditional retailers should learn a lesson or two from Amazon's success and be prepared to put those lessons into practice for their own businesses.

Careful not to repeat the mistakes of Gateway, a business rival whose brick - and - mortar retail venture proved to be an under - thought fiasco, Apple turned over its customer files to Asterop and asked the location intelligence provider to analyze what markets it should target.