Sentences with phrase «mortar counterparts»

According to Prologis, these retailers require three times as much logistics space — or more — as their brick - and - mortar counterparts.

Online exchanges are much like their brick - and - mortar counterparts.

Many online retailers don't offer the same warranty and return policies as their brick - and - mortar counterparts.

«Amazon has long enjoyed three major competitive advantages over its brick - and - mortar counterparts: Without any physical stores, Amazon has low fixed costs, which enables it to offer lower prices than brick - and mortar stores, even when not selling below cost.

On measures widely used to judge all public schools, such as state test scores and graduation rates, virtual schools — often run as charter schools — tend to perform worse than their brick - and - mortar counterparts.

If you look at just about every independent analysis of the performance of students in the full - time cyber charter schools compared to their traditional brick - and - mortar counterparts, they do quite poorly.

A useful addition would be data based on surveys of parents with children enrolled in virtual schools and in their brick - and - mortar counterparts.

«Under the current system... street vendors are forced to overcome significant obstacles not faced by their brick - and - mortar counterparts,» Peralta said.

Online exchanges are much like their brick - and - mortar counterparts.

Not exact matches

The e-commerce giant has continued displacing brick - and - mortar retailers and has expanded its grip on the retail industry generally, forcing even its largest counterparts to respond on the digital front.

Lattimer also wonders whether students congregating over Buffalo chicken calzones in a Boston office building get an experience similar to those of their counterparts on brick - and - mortar campuses — «that cross-pollination of ideas,» as she described it, «that many of us got who went to traditional colleges and universities.»

It found that the majority of students who attend virtual charter schools are low - achieving; they are also more likely to be designated as special education and more likely to have repeated a prior grade than their traditional brick - and - mortar school counterparts.

Despite the hope that many parents hold out for this new educational option, the performance of cyber charter schools has consistently, and often drastically, lagged behind the performance of their brick - and - mortar school counterparts.

Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes, or CREDO, found that students at online charter schools saw dramatically worse outcomes than their counterparts at traditional, brick - and - mortar schools.

Thalia's 232 bricks - and - mortar stores in Germany actually lost 1.4 % in sales overall in 2010, which only serves to highlight the stellar performance of its online counterparts.

Now with the latter option gone, the brick - and - mortar shops will be at a level playing field vis - a-vis their online counterparts.

Brick - and - mortar banks also have a greater range of products and services than their online - only counterparts.

Online banks don't have the added expenses of maintaining a brick and mortar presence so they are able to offer higher interests than their counterparts.

While traditional brick and mortar banks can be very convenient, they can rarely compete with the higher interest rates offered by their online counterparts.