Sentences with phrase «hit by the online retailer»

Retailers who prioritise protecting their share price ahead of investing to become Amazon - fit will be hardest hit by the online retailer's arrival.

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Just Eat hit the headlines in May 2015 after outlaying $ 855 million for Menulog, which was 55 per cent owned by co-founder Leon Kamenev and 25 per cent owned by online retailer Catch Group, which sold a similar business, EatNow, to Menulog earlier in 2015 in return for an equity stake.

The online coupon company which was once hailed as the future of retail and hasn't really hit the right note ever since, responded by firing their CEO, Andrew Mason.

Amazon has been good for all authors, best - selling and non, self - pub and partner pub, because, for a few, A) Amazon helped replace part of the wholesale market, which shrank in the 1990's, and really helped open up online book - selling; B) Amazon has increased international publishing by expanding into numerous countries, allowing more international authors to hit the big English markets, English authors to hit new markets and transnational publishers to do multi-country launches more easily; C) by launching the Kindle, Amazon juiced the small e-book retail industry into a much larger, fast - growing market, which helped replace mass market wholesale sales, etc..

It isn't surprising that retail, hit by competition from online giants such as Amazon.com Inc., has been buffeted by anemic income growth at the lower end of the income spectrum.