Sentences with phrase «n't giant chains»

They aren't giant chains which the same food across the nation.

Not exact matches

After watching the American Giant inventory get «sucked through» in December, Winthrop was forced to make big bets on a supply chain that wasn't completely proven.

However, when the giant video chain decided, in July 1999, against a joint venture, Riviera discovered that he didn't have a blockbuster deal in hand after all.

In fact, these giants don't even break the top 25 in our latest ranking of the top fast - food chains in America.

Medium and large - chain grocery stores nationwide including Ralph's, Stater Brothers, Vons (Safeway) and Giant, have followed suit with a twist: membership is free, but without becoming a member you do not get to take advantage of sales prices.

The packet of Taco Bell spices you buy in grocery stores makes delicious spicy beef for tacos, but don't expect it to taste exactly the same as the beef at the giant Mexican food chain.

Vertical integration issues go to the heart of competition issues that arise from the supermarket giants having access to information from their suppliers that is not publicly available about the supplier's pricing strategies, costs, margins and advanced innovation plans and how the chains then use that information to develop their private - label brands in competition.

While retail giants are not popularly associated with sustainable development, UK - based Marks & Spencer and Tesco, and US giant Walmart, have made progress in meeting ambitious environmental and social goals throughout their supply chains.1

The Sheraton Hotel chain will return to Arlington Heights as part of the giant Arlington Downs project - and the new hotel won't be far from the location of the previous Sheraton hotel.

The Sheraton Hotel chain will return to Arlington Heights as part of the giant Arlington Downs project — and the new hotel won't be far from the location of the previous Sheraton hotel.

Not surprisingly, the maps show a giant blob of superheated rock about 60 miles beneath Mount Sidley, the last of a chain of volcanic mountains in Marie Byrd Land at one end of the transect.

(The invaders were originally Chinese, but with three years to consider geopolitical trends, the filmmakers wisely changed the bad guys to a nation that doesn't own a giant U.S. theatrical exhibition chain.)

Yes, there's the whole Goddess of Death thing and that's not nice, but Hela's brothers didn't even know of her existence until recently and that really irks her, and she doesn't have any real friends save for the giant zombie warrior dudes she recently resurrected from the grave, and even if she assumes her rightful place on the throne in Asgard, where's the fun in that if everyone is dead or in chains?

If you've happened to venture into an independent bookstore in the past few years, you may have noticed an e-reader for sale that isn't produced by an online retailer or a giant bookstore chain.

In fact, most of the best puppy food and dog food choices, aren't found in regular petstores (and definitely not at the supermarket or big - chain giant).

Sensing competition, the global brand leader for Le Méridien and W Hotels warned that hotels not affiliated with giant chains would be at a disadvantage because «They could not, for example, match the loyalty programs or the corporate marketing efforts of the big chains.»

The Est Taylar moment wasn't the only time this happened to me — at one point I climbed a hill to find a point of interest, and found myself at the end of a monster contract quest chain, fleeing from a giant fiend ten levels out of my range.

Apparently he manages to dodge an electric fan the size of a planet or a giant fire extinguisher, but not a rolling Chain Chomp going after a giant bone.

Chaining different combos together, creating giant chains, all those things are often impossible, since they're simply not supported through the combat system.

A brilliant actor he was not, but giving customers a chance to get to know the head of the company was a smart way to make a giant fast - food chain appear less corporate and more like a family business.

If you have a large local library of music and haven't chained yourself to one of the streaming giants yet, Plexamp looks like it could be an interesting option to check out.

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You're also more likely to have frequent contact with the customers and staff in other departments, which is usually not possible in head office jobs with giant chains.

Those cost savings are expected to be passed on to homebuyers and homesellers, Snodgrass said, adding HFS has negotiated deals with a national automobile dealer and with a giant electronic manufacturer that would allow «an HFS chain's agent to be able to provide things others can not to homebuyers and sellers,» including discounted prices on vehicles and home satellite dishes.