Sentences with phrase «in this big box of»

I missed my old school, a parochial microcosm of people possessing bronze - kissed skin tones richer and more plentiful than every brown and yellow color in my biggest box of crayons.

Of all the colors in the big box of crayons, which hue is missing?

Zero / Sum [$ 1.99], is a nifty little concept wrapped in a big box of awesome.

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Since last year, Peninsula Shops has signed up about 80 businesses, many of which, facing competition from big - box retailers and feeling the effects of the recession, desperately needed a new tactic to get customers in the door.

Lawmakers and activists saw an even bigger problem, comparing the purchasable loot boxes, in a game likely to have a large audience of minors, as akin to encouraging children to gamble.

Non-Prime users spend a little more than half that ($ 700), but they may be picking up the tab elsewhere, like in the cost of gas to shop in - store, the higher price of items from big - box retailers, and shipping from other stores.

Because of its dominance at the box office, it recently surpassed Titanic to become the third biggest release in U.S. history.

This is big - box retailing in the 21st century, says Paco Underhill, CEO of New York — based consultancy firm Envirosell and author of Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping and Call of the Mall.

Target offers another example of a big - box retailer rolling out smaller locations throughout the U.S., mainly in urban hubs.

Hell or High Water, for instance, was the biggest independent box office draw of 2016, raking in about $ 27 million domestically.

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

Then, when the VP of operations from the big - box store down the road walks in for an interview and shares her experience with you, listen for those three things.

SR: Eighty - five percent of our growth in next five years will come from our own stores and online, while wholesale [department and other big - box stores] will grow single digits [percentage].

Paramount released a number of notable big - budget flops in 2016, including Ben Stiller's comedy sequel Zoolander 2 ($ 28.8 million in domestic gross) and a Ben - Hur remake that Paramount co-financed with MGM, which only grossed $ 26.4 million domestically, according to Box Office Mojo.

Canadians trust domestic drug stores and big box chains, while Research In Motion falls out of the top 10.

Released in February, Deadpool is the biggest movie of 2016 so far with $ 330 million in domestic box office gross and a worldwide haul of more than $ 700 million.

Walmart is reportedly closing in on a big acquisition of Flipkart, and that single move could ignite yet another major fight between the big - box retailer and Amazon.

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He cut back the Baby Jogger's retail distribution, pulling his strollers out of the big boxes and Amazon.com in favor of specialty stores such as Buy Buy Baby, where they now sell for about $ 350.

Toys «R» Us generates roughly 40 percent of total revenues in the fourth quarter, and industry experts have expressed concern over the big - box retailer's ability to retain vendors and customers after its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing on Sept. 19.

From Shopify to Big Commerce to Magento, there are many out - of - the - box solutions that can help you get a storefront up and running in minutes.

Baby Jogger's woes had been brought about, in part, by fierce competition from lower - priced rivals selling strollers through big - box stores and discount websites for as little as $ 99, less than half the price of a Baby Jogger.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

Foodies, for example, spend a disproportionate amount of their money on food, beverages and goods at big - box stores, possibly because they live in larger households with adult chlldren or other family members.

While those big boxes suit some enterprise situations, it's clear that more companies are offloading at least part of their work to cloud providers, which means they buy fewer servers less often than they had in the past.

Walmart (wmt) has grown to be the largest U.S. retailer, with $ 300 billion in annual sales, by offering bargain basement prices on a huge assortment of products and dotting the country with its big - box stores.

But soon other beauty brands started aggressively pursuing Avon's customers; multinationals such as P&G made inroads in the developing world, and drugstores and big - box retailers expanded their selection of affordable cosmetics.

In light of this, we may just see more small retailers sprout from the ashes of the big box chains.

Write the name of your company in big letters across the side of one of those cardboard boxes Amazon uses to ship stuff.

A couple of years ago, the Centenaris decided to invest roughly $ 1 million in the corrugator, the giant machine that turns big rolls of brown paper into the corrugated sheets that will eventually become boxes.

«The mobile phone business has matured, margins have compressed and the cost of operations in our mobile standalone stores is higher than in our big box stores,» CEO Hubert Joly wrote to employees.

The film surpassed Frozen's record of $ 67.4 million to earn the biggest debut ever for a non-Pixar Disney animated film, and it also scored the fourth - highest March opening weekend in box office history.

«For the last several years, Walmart, Best Buy, Staples and a handful of major Big Box retailers have made extremely limited numbers of doorbusters — traditionally the hallmark of Black Friday — available both in - store and online on both Black Friday and Cyber Monday,» says de Grandpre of DealNews.

Joly said in the letter he felt confident about retaining customers and transitioning them to the company's larger stores and website, adding 85 percent of Best Buy's mobile stores are within three miles of one of its big box stores.

It is also the primary source of supply for everything from vitamin C to smart phones, and much in between that fills many of our big box retail stores.

Its architect, John Graham Jr., pioneered the dumbbell, big - box shape for malls, in which two rows of stores face each other and a department store anchors each end.

In her industry, the saying had it, «little boxes» like Sutersville Lumber that responded shrewdly to the onslaught of a «big box» like Home Depot could survive.

This weekend, it crossed the $ 1 billion mark in its worldwide box - office totals, after beating out the four - day totals of Disney's last big movie, Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

Smaller marketing budgets prevent SMBs from effectively competing against larger retailers on these major selling days, as they'll be outspent and overlooked in light of the marketing efforts of big - box stores.

«Fast forward to 2018 and the mobile phone business has matured, margins have compressed and the cost of operations in our mobile standalone stores is higher than in our big box stores,» Joly said.

Whatever its appeal, Debra's Natural Gourmet proves that even in the face of big - box competition, a tiny player can become both a beloved local business and a profitable growth company.

(Thirty years ago, the rise of big - box stores — now in decline — rained similar punishment on small and young businesses.)

Right on the heels of The Wolverine, which topped its opening weekend box office, it makes sense to get the fanboys itching for the next big thing in the X-Men universe.

«Unlike corporate grocery stores, or big - box stores like Walmart that literally have acres of space under one roof, our stores are each around 2,400 square feet in total,» Noon's Food Stores president Dirk Cooper said in a letter to the USDA.

Perhaps traditional grocery stores will be forced to confront the challenge posed by big box stores and delivery companies like FreshDirect by playing up the community aspect of the shopping experience — just as some of the most successful bookstores have become more like coffee shops and community centers in order to stay in business.

In 2010, Home Hardware was the manufacturer's only chain client; today, thanks to increased capacity, its popular Generation line of chairs is available through many of the big - box retailers it once had to turn away.

Black Panther is already the biggest movie of 2018, and now the latest superhero blockbuster from Marvel and Walt Disney is on the precipice of cracking $ 1 billion in worldwide box - office revenue.

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.

«The gatekeepers can no longer stop people from getting their voices heard, whether they're black, Hispanic, women or disenfranchised,» says JT McCormick, CEO of one of the industry's biggest new players, a company called Book in a Box.

«We feel good about the opportunity to retain customers and transition them to another one of our sales channels,» Joly wrote in the letter, adding that 85 percent of Best Buy's mobile stores are within 3 miles of one of its big - box stores.