Sentences with phrase «for big chains»

As manufacturers of freeze - dried meal mixers ramp up their distribution to superstores, we expect to see this category grow in importance for the big chains — following in the footsteps of early - adopting neighborhood shops.

The buy decisions for big chains are made in the central office, not the individual bookstores.

Hidden at the bottom of this story: potential good news for big chains offering or experimenting with delivery: a cold winter (and spring) doesn't seem to have affected delivery numbers.

Amazon getting into this market would likely be a death blow for them, more than it would be for big chains.

Gift cards to health stores — Yoga naturally goes hand in hand with a healthy lifestyle, so any yoga practitioner would appreciate some funding for healthy sustenance, whether it is for a big chain like Whole Foods Market, or your local organic food and health store.

It takes longer for big chain gyms to catch onto workout trends, so this is a great way for you to try the newest workouts at a fraction of the cost.

A bookseller discount might be set at 35 % for a small independent bookshop, up to 60 %, 70 % or more for a big chain, supermarket or online retailer.

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.

If the test does continue to grow, it could spell bad news for Wendy's (wen) considering the rival chain's big selling point is «Always Fresh, Never Frozen.»

It's always been challenging for small businesses to compete with big - box chains and giant corporations.

Wal - Mart isn't the only big retail chain that regularly has samples for its customers — Target (TGT) regularly lists free samples on its Web site, and unlike Wal - Mart, you don't actually need to set foot in the store.

It turns out that some chains and franchises have realized something many consumers have felt for years: Big isn't always beautiful.

For every $ 100 we spend at a big box or chain, only about $ 14 stays in the neighborhood, but when you shop at a local store, $ 45 stays in the community.

CEO Howard Schultz is known for taking on big issues like job creation and education so the coffee chain's latest initiative centered around diversity and racial inequality was not a big departure from that.

Maybe it's time for the biggest burger chain in the world to downplay the hamburger and focus on chicken instead.

I read that the hip New York City diner chain Big Daddy's and seafood restaurant City Crab offered free birthday meals (with varying restrictions) to anyone who signed up for their Insider Clubs.

So the announcement of the restaurant chains» intentions implies a need for big changes within the egg industry.

Garrett See, CEO of DV Chain, a boutique Chicago firm whose biggest cryptocurrency deals reach $ 5 million, says early adopters are typically the sources of the largest blocks for trading.

Here are the three things that executives at some of the biggest restaurant chains in the country are blaming for the industry's stagnation.

Grocery stores — whether your local store or a big - box chain — have tons of items in stock and many for a fair, reasonable price.

Analyzing data provided by 50,000 of its own clients for the past year, Bigcommerce determined that auto, jewelry, toys and games and pet care are fast - growing areas where one - of - a-kind merchants are outperforming their big - box or chain store peers.

Hari has been able to convince big chains to make system - wide changes in the past by isolating one or two ingredients, such as the «yoga mat chemical» or corn syrup, that she feels are especially dangerous for customers and would be feasible for the company to cut.

Grab a Bruegger's famous Big Bagel Bundle — 13 bagels and 2 tubs of cream cheese — for just $ 10.40 from the chain through on April 17 (a $ 3.50 savings).

While the big - chain coffe shop almost always is reliable and convenient, opt for a boutique cafe if you can.

The reason for this order is that, in general, if the potential market isn't big enough, all the other things don't matter, and if the market is big enough but you can't identify the buying chain, then you don't know enough yet to position the product or technology, etc..

-- Eric Casaburi, CEO of Retro Fitness, a 155 - plus unit fitness chain which provides members with big box gym amenities for $ 20 a month

For one, big pharma's supply chain is a global enterprise with global ambitions, and manufacturing is cheaper in countries like India and China.

The issue, according to Buffalo Wild Wings, is not so much the core customer — who comes to the chain to watch big sports events and enjoy wings and beers for hours while the game unfolds.

For the economy overall — including big swaths of Trump country — trade policy veterans of past Republican administrations say the challenge now is limiting damage in the form of disrupted supply chains, higher prices and lost jobs.

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.

But for the economy overall — including big swaths of Trump country — trade policy veterans of past Republican administrations say the challenge now is limiting damage in the form of disrupted supply chains, higher prices and lost jobs.

Lesson learned: Prepare for the big deal, negotiate with your supply chain, and ensure you have cheaper access to working capital.

Slashing prices to keep up with the big chains can spell disaster for the average entrepreneur.

When I worked for big brands, I didn't know what was going on along the supply chain.

This is a big move for the giant drugstore chain (only second to Walgreens).

The restaurant chain says digital orders could make up half of the total business down the road, which means it could be just as big of a business as it is for pizza chains today.

In partnership with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, or Sida, USAID is offering up $ 25 million in grants, ranging from $ 100,000 to $ 3 million, for big ideas that solve the water scarcity problems in the agricultural production chain.

As an exec at Shire (shpg), which with $ 6 billion in revenue is one of the smaller Big Pharmas, he spent months persuading leaders and commercial and supply - chain people to launch a clinical trial for the ADHD drug Vyvanse to treat binge eating.

India holds lots of potential for fast food chains, but new competitors have forced big eateries to keep things fresh.

That being said, shoppers in search of big bargains should come to Whole Foods with a little more knowledge of prices at other chains for comparison.

Macmahon Holdings, which recently lost its chief executive after a big earnings downgrade, has blamed a false email chain discussing a supposed Chinese takeover offer, for a temporary trading halt today.

It sounded counterintuitive, he said, but the big national chains, ever fearful of bad publicity, include harsh penalties in their franchise agreements for failing health inspections.

This especially rings true for small businesses that are pressed to stay competitive with big box or other chain retailers.

Big guns in Silicon Valley are rolling out changes — and this toy chain got some heat for selling some seriously questionable action figurines.

China last week suspended Marriott International's Chinese website for a week to punish the world's biggest hotel chain for listing Tibet, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau as separate countries in a customer questionnaire.

It's also a break from the food business, where Berkshire (BRKA) has done a string of big deals recently, including Heinz and Kraft, as well as providing financing for Burger King's acquisition of Canadian doughnut chain Tim Horton's.

Trying to clean up a supply chain is nothing new — big corporations have been at it for years, mainly as a way to mitigate risks and dodge the next big scandal.

It was a big setback for the burrito chain, which is fighting to rebuild consumer trust after E. coli, Salmonella and Norovirus outbreaks in 2015 battered its sales and brand.

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

Although Coutu dabbled with a chain of small stores, which he called Farmeterias, he focused on the discount Pharm - Escompte format after visiting early big - box pharmacies in Toronto and realizing those chains would eat him up if he didn't go for volume.