Sentences with phrase «chain stores asking»

And when the chain store asks, in a much softer voice, well, where will you sell your product, then - who will ever accept those terms?

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Starbucks Corp CEO Howard Schultz has put the coffee chain in the national spotlight before, asking customers not to bring guns into stores and urging conversations on race relations.

On a conference call with analysts, Buffalo Wild Wings executives were asked what went wrong for the chain, which has now reported two straight quarters of same - store sales weaknesses.

After graduating from Stanford and securing his MBA there in 1954, Coulombe landed a gig doing research on convenience stores for drugstore chain Rexall, which eventually asked him to start a 7 - Eleven knockoff in California.

Anecdotes found online at first seem unbelievable: floor staff cheerfully accepting unabashedly damaged returns, no questions asked; Nordstrom employees helping mall shoppers carry purchases from other stores to their cars; and an often - repeated tale about a customer in Anchorage, Alaska, who returned a set of tires to a Nordstrom location — despite the fact that the chain doesn't actually sell tires.

Martins asked E.J. McMahon, president of the fiscally conservative think tank, the Empire Center, how the transition to a higher wage could adversely affect smaller employers, versus the large chain stores like a Walmart or Home Depot.

Unfortunately, I've rarely seen these at chain grocery stores, but ask around as local farmers or gardeners might have a surplus.

Health magazine asked six prominent health experts to help pick the top 10 healthiest grocery stores out of the nation's largest chains.

Amy Thomas, owner of Pegasus bookstores in Berkeley and Oakland, laughed when asked if chain stores were still a serious threat to her business.

Borders, the bookseller that invented the chain superstore concept, has not found a buyer and will ask for approval to liquidate its remaining 399 stores (at its height, Borders operated 1,300 stores), reports the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.

In Los Angeles, the Healthy Spot chain is hosting in - store pet adoption events and asking customers if they want to round up their purchases to the nearest dollar — with 100 percent of the proceeds going to charity.

As a result, she went to a large chain pet store and asked a clerk to help her pick out a crate.

The burger chain says most stores offer savings, so don't hesitate to ask.

It seemed a perfect fit: Moore has a book to promote (he told the crowd at the bookstore last night that he had no interest in doing signings at big chain stores), and St. Mark's Bookshop is itself in trouble, and has asked its landlord, Cooper Union, the private engineering, architecture and art college, to reduce its $ 20,000 monthly rent (with backup from a local petition and a community board resolution).

The Campaign for Healthier Solutions is asking the dollar stores (the four largest chains of dollar stores are Family Dollar, Dollar Tree, Dollar General, and 99 - Cents Only) to start to phase out the products with the most dangerous levels of chemicals, to help protect community health.

The group notes that it would be less expensive to target the fast food chains and stores that are giving away disposable cutlery in excess, and making small changes like asking a customer if they want a fork or handing over just one napkin would make a big difference.

A thousand or five hundred of them went out to local businesses, hand addressed in bright white wedding envelopes, to the office of the president, or sometimes to HR dept, or even to the receptionist, with a personal thank you note inside with a small denomination grocery store chain gift certificate, asking if possible to post to their office message board, along with a picture of the property with no address (to get the address they had to call).