Sentences with phrase «even big chains»

Netflix and other streaming services have largely rendered the stores obsolete, with even big chain Blockbuster closing up shop recently.

Not exact matches

Besides price, an even bigger point of distinction between Eatsa and Chipotle is that Friedberg's chain doesn't serve meat, which has a high environmental cost.

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.

An even bigger question about the financial services industry's adoption of distributed ledger technologies might not be about how this gets implemented and what specific block chains they choose, but rather what happens to the float that savvy bankers and financial firms have taken advantage of as they wait for deposits to clear.

That tack paid off as the advent of big natural - foods chains turned out to benefit — not harm — even tiny players in the $ 48 - billion nutrition industry.

This may be the biggest squandering of money by a retail chain — even including Ron Johnson and JCPenney.»

Even hotel clerks may become obsolete as the big hotel chains experiment with software that allows a guest to check in and unlock his or her door with a smartphone.

The department store competitor owns a collection of smaller shops, including Home Goods and Marshalls, that have an even bigger footprint than the largest clothing shop in the U.S., another off - price chain called Ross.

Big players like Walmart, Target, and even ecommerce giants like Amazon have their supply chain performing data entry with old - fashioned spreadsheets.

Black Monday — and the days that followed — serve as a reminder that even record one - day events don't necessarily set off big, bad chain reactions.

The production of news and information became big business, as more and more small town newspapers and even large city independents became part of huge newspaper chains.

Now, even the big burger chains offer smoothies for health conscious customers.

Big chain groceries probably would never purchase jalapeños with striations from a grower because they looked flawed (even though they're totally not), but if you happen to find them at a local market, grab them up.

In 2010, CDG acquired a chain of retail stores known as Big Daddy's, allowing for the distribution group to etch out an even larger share of the beer, wines and spirits market on the islands.

But even with its nostalgic appeal, Dion's still goes up against big - name chains on a daily basis.

Woolworths is resisting pressure to offload BIG W even though the chain will lose another $ 150 million this year.

«Even animals that humans deem insignificant because they can not provide us with medicine, food, etc., play a big role in the food chain.

Sequencing virus genomes from even a fraction of people infected in an epidemic and comparing mutation patterns can give researchers valuable information about how big the epidemic is, how long it has been spreading and where transmissions chains start and end, said Dr. Trevor Bedford, a Fred Hutch evolutionary biologist and one of the paper's authors.

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.

So yeah, not those but I — I also think, and get back to the ADHD question, there needs to be a big emphasis on not only systemic inflammation but supporting lipid metabolism through things like fatty supplementation, you know, Omega 3s, medium - chain triglyceride, even get good ketone production.

In fact, however, it is not even so much the lobster claw closure I object to on this strand you linked to (and I have a few costumey - looking «big pearls» from Talbots and Ann Taylor that have lobster claw closures)-- it is the chain coming off the end of the necklace.

There is a chance that the appeal of Scorsese would be enough to break the embargo big theater chains have imposed on Netflix's releases, but it's unclear if that's something Netflix even wants.

But when he breaks one of the cardinal rules of beedom and speaks to humans, including Vanessa Bloom (voiced by Renée Zellweger), Barry sets off an un-bee-lievable chain of events that proves even a little bee can make a big difference.

Even the chains that strap Gregorio and Ingrid to their chairs are big and different colors.

Even if academy status is not compulsory, the proposals presumed a big expansion in academy chains - and there are questions, not least from Ofsted, about the need for more rapid intervention for academy chains that are underperforming.

In addition to «The Big Six,» other organizations that are presently lobbying Connecticut legislators in favor of the charter school and «education reform» agenda include the Bronx Charter School for Excellence, the North East Charter Schools Network, Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public funds.

There are TFA alums who are principals of regular non-charter schools who are doing fantastic jobs, even though they are not getting the kind of miraculous test scores that the big charter chains lie about getting.

Under that 1981 law, books in the country were sold at a fixed price, which was meant to protect small booksellers from the ravages of big box discount stores and retail chains that were already cropping up even then.

However, they face the same physical space limitations as the big chains do, perhaps even more so.

It doesn't seem like too much of a stretch to surmise that print books are on their way to becoming a niche market where smaller stores capable of catering to local tastes can survive; even thrive, but big chains can't be sustained.

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

Although there's a trend, even in big box stores, towards empowering salespeople to call more shots, you're probably better off working your way up the food chain.

If you're buying an expensive piece from a big box or chain store, you may even want to have your jewellery appraised by an independent lab.

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.

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.

When customers walk through the front door of any business, they can usually tell if there is a personal touch in the store or if it's strictly an impersonal corporate presentation — or even worse, aisle after aisle, shelf after shelf of the same things they can find in every chain and big - box store.

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.

I also know distributors and even many pet food retailers that are not part of the big chains.

In addition, there are bigger chains such as Walmart and Krogers — and even other Meijer stores — in the market.

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.

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.

Some even speculate that the expansion into grocery and mass was necessitated by erosion in Blue Buffalo's market share in the pet specialty channel as several big chains have been lowering their emphasis on the brand in their stores.

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.

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.

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.

You can also do what father of four Diego Santillana does — stay a little farther out in a bigger city where you'll have a greater selection of chain hotels and a better chance of using points you may already have earned, even if it means a longer drive to get into the parks.

Almost every female character removes their clothes as they chain big combos — even the baby transforms into a busty woman in a bathing suit!

There's a long and strong «waste - not, want - not» tradition in Sweden (IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad is only the most famous of these resourceful - possibly even stingy - Swedes)- so it's no surprise that the country's biggest grocery chains has now

«The gathering and processing sector, a piece of the supply chain that most people don't even know exists, may be the biggest single fraction of emissions coming from natural gas,» said Mark Brownstein, who leads the Environmental Defense Fund's work on methane emissions.