Sentences with phrase «few big chains»

Not exact matches

Just two years after the controversy, Chick - fil - A beat KFC to become the biggest chicken chain in the US in sales, despite having fewer than half as many locations.

The logic: In a battle of big and slow against small and fast, give me the speedsters and let me see that beautiful turnover chain a few more times before 2017 comes to an end.

Over the past few decades, the sale of such goods migrated largely to big - box multinational chains, where employees couldn't care less about answering customers» questions or concerns.

While few of the big manufacturers are Canadian, the extensive supply chain means there's plenty of small companies to work for.

I always associated them with the horribly over-sauced and mushy eggplant parmesan you find at big chain Italian restaurants, that is until I got some in my CSA basket a few weeks ago and was forced to make them into something.

Wayback Burgers has mapped out an unconventional approach to tackling the Big Apple, one of the few big cities the global casual chain has not yet penetratBig Apple, one of the few big cities the global casual chain has not yet penetratbig cities the global casual chain has not yet penetrated.

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.

While a few of those numbers are probably a little murky (Marvel [along with DC] technically sell directly to retailers, with Diamond only acting as a sales agent — so, when they sell to Billy Bob's Comics Hole, they're selling it for a very different price than they're selling it to John's Big Regional Chain Stores), I suspect it is fairly likely that the cut to every other partner combined is pretty close to, in aggregate, of 65 % of the total cover price.

Labeling works out to a few pennies per disc with packages including design software to be found at most big business supply chains.

Now that my local indie stores have mostly closed, and the lone big chain is trying to convert itself into a shade - of - purple Crate & Barrel with a few books on the side, trying to buy print is pretty much a waste of effort.

For example, quite a few of the bigger hotel chains have joined forces with credit card companies so that people may receive discounts on certain hotel stays.

This is a broad definition — to me, this is about hotels with fewer rooms eg 20 or less and a bit more design focused than say a Holiday Inn (for mid-range big chain hotels same applies as 5 stars).

The town has few, if any, big name chain restaurants or hotels.

Last week's selections killed it with Alice in Chains, Rage Against the Machine, Black Veil Bride, however this weeks is struttin» The Struts and a few more big - name bands.

There are also a few bigger guys that might have chain guns or rockets, and a few vehicles for you to blow up.

A few years ago, SEGA and Gumi announced a partnership to bring SEGA's mobile games to the West, beginning with SEGA's biggest mobile hit in Japan: Chain Chronicle.

The geochemist Wallace Broecker, to whom we owe a number of the important ideas about abrupt climate change, speculates that there is a chain of causation starting with more far - northern winter sea ice and (because of the ice preventing the winds from stirring up waves and evaporation and salt excess) thereby fewer sinks for the Gulf Stream, which in turn diminishes the big conveyor loop of currents linking the North Atlantic to the Pacific.

Canada's biggest grocery chain, Loblaws, has been struggling for a few years in anticipation of the Wal - Mart grocery invasion; it built new warehouses that didn't work, neglected its own fabulously successful President's Choice franchise and filled the aisles with cheap Chinese knockoffs of everything from barbecues to furniture instead of food.

The first few months of 2018 also saw several big - name retail bankruptcy filings, including shoe retailer Nine West, department store chain Bon - Ton and Claire's, a teen accessories retailer.