Sentences with phrase «local big chain»

Don't go out and buy something that's been sitting on the shelf of your local big chain grocery store, make this instead!

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Now, many big chains are developing creative ways to capture a market that has rejected them, and franchises, which usually have local ownership, are starting to play up the neighborhood and community aspects of their stores.

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.

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

Eight months after the big - box giant's initial bid to buy Massmart Holdings, the South African government has approved the deal, giving Walmart a 51 % stake in the local retail chain.

Using Pagemodo, a local bakery can post beautiful product announcements, hold user contests, and track their followers just as easily as a big fast food chain with a pricey marketing agency.

(Local = where you live, and locally owned, not some big chain) For full details on the contest, click here:

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.

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

Big Tree Farms is a socially equitable manager of sustainable supply chains, working directly with over 7,000 farmers and having developed key partnerships with both local nonprofits and International Development programs.

You will enjoy finding one - of - a-kind items at our unique stores and quaint boutiques in the Downtown, or find just about anything you need at our local chain retailers, furniture stores or big box stores.

«This is happening because many of the county's largest property tax owners — national chains, big box retailers, developers, not residential property owners — are challenging their assessments, and many local assessors are not regularly or accurately assessing properties,» Poloncarz said.

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.

ii) Some of the small boutique shops and local bakers / butchers etc. will also be closed for August (although the big department stores, chain stores and supermarkets remain open)

Think big - box stores and chains like Home Goods, Target, and Urban Outfitters, as well as local boutiques and resale stores (we love The Brown Elephant in Chicago, for example).

Find a beautiful spot at a local municipal park or body of water for a romantic, home - made picnic, visit a local privately owned restaurant and not a chain or if you are going bigger budget, have it catered to your special location.

Discussions were taking place in Hartford about turning over one or more of the local schools over to the nation's biggest charter school chain, the KIPP Foundation, which runs 130 schools around the country.

If pizza is a big part of your life and you find chain pizza more satisfying than what the local mom - and - pop pizza shop cooks up, there may be a Ford in your future.

The other big feature that Nook boasts, thanks to its connection to a chain of real book stores, is that you can stop by your local Barnes and Noble, chill out, and read any Nook ebook for free for an hour while connected to the store's Wi - Fi.

The desire to support the small (local) business owner vs the big box chain store is potent marketing these days and it sounds like some authors are trying to capitalize on that hip, trendy image.

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.

The other missing pieces are bookstores and libraries, but I doubt much good news will be coming from either sector; the big bookstore chains are stumbling badly this year, and my local stores have cut back on their graphic novel inventory, while libraries, like all branches of local government, must contend with budget cuts.

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.

South African readers can buy Anne's books in the local Kalahari store, where they might choose to read on the local gobii e-reader rather than a Kindle or the Kobo devices sold nationwide by the country's biggest supermarket chain Pick - N - Pay.

More and more people are opting to support local businesses more than bigger corporations; they prefer the help of people they know and trust, rather than a faceless retail chain.

I'm a big fan of large hotel chains integrating local - inspired art work into their designs and decoration and Hyatt did a great job of this throughout the hotel.

Taupo has the full spectrum of men, women, kids and baby's clothing from boutique local stores as well as some big chains and fabulous op - shopping at prices that are downright reasonable.

It seemed a perfect fit: Moore has a book to promote (he told the crowd at the bookstore last night that he had no interest in doing signings at big chain stores), and St. Mark's Bookshop is itself in trouble, and has asked its landlord, Cooper Union, the private engineering, architecture and art college, to reduce its $ 20,000 monthly rent (with backup from a local petition and a community board resolution).

One local farmer, who is not part of the program at this point, said his biggest concern is that its funding — which comes from a large grant — will disappear somehow at some point in the near future and then you'd have these small farms who have ramped up production a bit to meet the demands of these large local chains getting stuck with a whole bunch of product they wouldn't be able to move.

Are Walmart's significant efforts to make their product chain more environmentally friendly enough to enable them to be embraced, not just begrudgingly tolerated as the biggest retailer in the world (and therefore a force which has to be acknowledged), by the environmental community, let alone those people working for social justice and local businesses?

The legal expertise of Harrison Clark Rickerbys has benefited both the local taxpayer and the Lidl supermarket chain, with the sale of the old Eastern Avenue fire station site to the chain so that they can develop a bigger store.

Otherwise, we'll have to start leaving our houses and going to local, brick oven pizza joints where they make food that isn't mass produced and tastes way better than anything the big chains can offer.

And research shows these local business owners also support local charities, sports teams, and other community groups dramatically more than the big chains.