Sentences with phrase «many shopkeepers»

But the prospective shopkeeper couldn't shake the fear that Amazon, whose impact on commerce was only growing, would eventually put him out of business.

Shopkeepers want leverage to negotiate lower fees so they don't have to hike prices; credit companies oppose changes that would make it more difficult to use their cards.

The limited number of bills in circulation are old and tatty, and shopkeepers are unable to make change due to a shortage of coins.

Left argues that Shopify is driving growth by recruiting new clients through aggressive marketing techniques, and most of those new shopkeepers are not actually going to succeed, which he says implies an inevitable collapse.

Shopkeeper Suparat Taddee surveys the damage done by flooding to her grocery store in Chumchon Ruamjai Community north of Bangkok.

Getting to Yes offers a sort of archetype of what we imagine «negotiation» means: A customer and a shopkeeper haggle over a brass dish, the latter asking $ 75, the former offering $ 15.

To keep customers saying «Ho, ho, ho» instead of «Oh, no, oh, no,» here are other measures electronic shopkeepers should take, according to security vendors and consultants:

«Whether you are in conversation with presidents or shopkeepers, Oscar - winning actors or train conductors, millionaires or people who are struggling to make a living, the chairman, or those who keep the factory floor running, the same you should show up in all situations.

Smart shopkeepers not only knew their best customers» names, but also remembered their tastes and what they bought previously.

As the cards drop, readers meet the occupants, among them an elderly woman who remembers the street in post-Blitz ruins, a Pakistani shopkeeper and his quarrelsome brothers and a 17 - year - old soccer prodigy.

If you're a shopkeeper or a dentist, for instance, you really can't work from a groovy communal loft downtown.

It harkens back to a time when the local shopkeeper treated our grandparents like neighbors.

In The Man Who Walked Around the World, Glaswegian character actor Robert Carlyle strides down a rugged mountain path, telling the story of young John Walker's rise from farm boy to shopkeeper to whisky magnate in a single, uninterrupted and utterly captivating 6 1/2 minute take.

Back before review sites were popular, shopkeepers and merchants would say, «tell your friends.»

Fortunately, there are other potentially less expensive options to a merchant cash advance for shopkeepers and restaurant owners with healthy businesses — even for those with a less - than - perfect personal credit profile.

Like a shopkeeper peddling his wares, he launches into an aggressive diatribe about shoddy pens and says Xiaomi's are only 9.90 yuan and fit perfectly in a person's hand.

Patel Co is the bank that the check came from, I know that Patel is an Indian surname for shopkeeper.

A blond - haired dispatcher quickly texts a «keep - an - eye - out - for - these - guys» message to local shopkeepers and residents, and loops in the police.

In around 27 years since its inception, Satin today is India's second largest MFI (as of Jun 2017) having started its journey with individual microloans to urban shopkeepers.

«The central bank's implementation of QE at a time of zero interest rates was similar to a shopkeeper who, unable to sell more than 100 apples a day at $ 1 each, tries stocking the shelves with 1,000 apples, and when that has no effect, adds another 1,000.

For just this reason Marx saw Bentham as a philosopher with the mind of a small shopkeeper.»

The man who murdered a Muslim shopkeeper who wished a Happy Easter to his «beloved Christian nation»... More

The man who murdered a Muslim shopkeeper who wished a Happy Easter to his «beloved Christian nation» has received a minimum of 27 years in prison.

The English gentry were pluperfect raiders who had nothing but contempt for shopkeepers and merchants.

Why don't we have «regular» characters who simply have faith as part of their make - up, but are also shopkeepers, barristers and full - time mums?

• Last April we wrote about New York City's Commission on Human Rights» suing some Haredi, or Ultra-Orthodox, shopkeepers in Brooklyn for their dress code, which runs (or ran, the stores having taken down the notices): «No shorts, no barefoot, no sleeveless, no low cut neckline, allowed in this store.»

One of the shopkeepers» attorneys told the Post, «Frankly, it's very troubling that the commission thinks it's OK for the Four Seasons restaurant to impose a dress code but not a bakery owned by a Hasidic businessman.»

Ruskin, a rich man, questioned the identity of progress and wealth: were these wealthy shopkeepers and shippers better specimens of humanity than the Englishmen of Johnson's or Shakespeare's or Chaucer's days?

Prior to the Industrial Revolution, most women were married to farmers or shopkeepers.

While the nations on the Continent had their revolutions and, for good or evil, fought over ideas — whether it be the divine right of kings, liberty, equality, and fraternity, scientific socialism, or racial superiority — we were, as Napoleon and others have said, a nation of shopkeepers.

It is no surprise that they have become business owners, shopkeepers, and professionals rather than cowboys.

When she asked the shopkeeper how much, he said, «$ 127.»

But can it really be my duty to buy and receive masses of junk every winter just to help the shopkeepers?

Faith - based welfare reform is a potential winner for President Bush because it appeals to salvationists, shopkeepers and servers.

The shopkeepers, many of whom have a libertarian streak, are stuck.

Some shopkeepers are hesitantly willing to put public money in private hands, but are uneasy about funding the evangelical missions of the salvationists.

The shopkeepers support faith - based reforms as one promising type of privatization.

They know that the liberal servers and the conservative shopkeepers who hold the purse strings share some of the separatists» discomfort, but these salvationists are determined to see how far they can push the envelope.

When the aforementioned shopkeepers hear Bush's message, they imagine a world full of mediating institutions — some religious, some secular — that link civil society with government, the former getting larger while the latter gets smaller.

One has to be buzzed in, because there have been so many shopkeepers shot or stabbed that it has become necessary to live in this sadly realistic climate of suspicion, which increases my own feelings of impotence.

A friendly shopkeeper will heap a little extra on, letting the pans tilt past the balance point.

This doctrine rendered meaningless the traditional God of justice, compassion and salvation, replacing it with an ethics fit only for a society of unimaginative shopkeepers.

Wacker describes the Pentecostal movement as a slice out of the American pie: its adherents have typically been «farmers, artisans, shopkeepers, and service providers with the middle school education and honorable social standing characteristic of those groups.»

A typical spice merchant can carry up to 200 different spices and herbs, so it's no wonder that there is a mind - boggling number of variations of ras el hanout, which means «head of the shop,» and refers to the special blend of the shopkeeper.

The name means «top of the shop,» or «shopkeepers» choice,» and indicates the fact that the mixtures are individually prepared by each spice seller.

In the hours before this year's Shrove Tuesday match, shopkeepers boarded their windows in fearful anticipation of the mayhem about to erupt.

At one point, a man sprints out of the local liquor store with the shopkeeper in hot pursuit amidst a blaze of gunfire.

Downtown, the shopkeepers had taped GO GRIZZ!

The son of a Venezuelan shopkeeper grew up with little and learned the game with improvised equipment.

In Monte Carlo he hasn't looked for an escape from taxes or anything else but for a chance to meet and hang out with the workaday people who make the city run — the shopkeepers and craftsmen and waiters «who do things with their hearts,» he says, «not with something in the back of their minds.»