Sentences with phrase «of chain retailers»

The relative success of the industry has created a tough competitive environment, where small, independent stores must go up against not only big - box retailers, but also online outlets that wield price and convenience as a weapon, and a rising class of chain retailers backed by the formidable resources of outside investors looking to get in on the lucrative pet market.

When it comes to the lack of chain retailers downtown Albany and Troy have the same shortage as Schenectady.

Not exact matches

These decisions — about how to reorganize supply chains, logistics and technology — need to be made quickly, unless they want to join the spate of retailers that have shuttered their operations in Canada this year.

UPS told Reuters it is now eyeing the furniture delivery business — one of the fastest - growing segments of online retail — with Amazon, Wayfair and other e-commerce companies competing for market share against chains like Crate and Barrel and big - box stores.

The food retailer operates a chain of upscale supermarkets in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

The most critical person to hire in the customer service schema is the manager, says Andy Fromm, president of Service Management Group, a Missouri - based firm that works with retail and restaurant chains on improving customer service, since employee turnover is directly driven by manager turnover.

«There are two types of people in this company: those who serve customers and those who serve those who serve customers,» adds Jon Freier, the executive vice president who oversees the company's retail chain.

Wal - Mart Stores, the retailer's parent that also operates the Sam's Club chain, said it expects profit for fiscal year 2019 to increase about 5 % over the expected adjusted earnings of $ 4.30 to $ 4.40 per share for the current fiscal year.

The chain is changing the landscape of retail as its chic yet affordable designs continue to appeal to demanding customers who constantly crave new styles at low prices.

Heather Reisman's chain is a great example of current retail trends, focused on diversification and destination shopping

Costly distributors and retailers are made irrelevant and unnecessary when manufacturers control the supply chain from product conceptualization and R&D, to manufacturing, to ecommerce sites and into the hands of our consumers.

By 2006, they sold their chain of 26 stand - alone retail stores and the men's line Jack Spade to Liz Claiborne for $ 124 million.

Canadians used to clamour for every new opening of an American restaurant or retail chain here.

The drugstore chain is one of Canada's strongest retail brands, and the company climbed by 4.6 points and two spots in this year's Reputation Institute survey.

As a result, Amazon was able to claim a significant portion of the big box chain's retail audience.

The tongue - in - cheek approach convinced Kmart to retain FCB as its agency of record but wasn't enough to boost the retail chain's flagging fortunes: Despite the widely viewed campaigns, revenue sagged 3.7 percent in 2013.

I lack the direct experience with the world's largest retailer to fairly say I don't like it, but still — a company that has both a taste for hegemony and a reputation (fair or not) for driving profit out of supply chains is something any marketer should be wary of.

The Dick Smith chain of technology and electrical goods shops is probably a poor example of the wider problems confronting retailing but its collapse this week is a reminder that the shake - out which has rattled the retail world over the past few years is far from over.

If you accept the trends indicating digital is the future, while physical retail is in decline, Canada could find itself shut out entirely — as in, not even the branch plant benefits — from the retail part of the value chain.

L1 Retail will take control of the chain from its private equity owners Carlyle Group.

The department store retail chain reported sales on Thursday morning of $ 4.12 billion, up from $ 4.07 billion the previous quarter, but missing the estimate for $ 4.19 billion.

The suburban shopping mall has long been the bastion of Big Retail, dominated by large department stores and nationwide chains.

toys, announced on Thursday that he and some affiliated investors were seeking $ 800 million from toy lovers in hopes of acquiring «all or some» of Toy «R» Us's assets, thus «saving the retail chain and preserving the Toys «R» Us experience for future generations.

• PetSmart, a Phoenix - based pet retail chain operator owned by a group of private equity investors led by BC Partner, agreed to acquire Chewy, a Dania Beach, Fla. - based online pet retailer.

Lamarche got his inspiration from successful Quebec retail chains like Sports Experts and hardware retailer Rona; both created their own brands and then expanded the number of outlets in which they would sell them.

The grocery chain became their first national retail partner and helped them earn a spot in the hearts and stomachs of customers.

While their customer and financial data may not be as big of a catch as, say, that of Target or some other global big - box retail chain, there are plenty of opportunities to hit mom and pop operations.

No one has a better understanding of this than American Apparel CEO Dov Charney who was quoted in The Village Voice lamenting the death of the fad his retail chain championed, if not started.

After years of thriving during a broader retail slump, the home - improvement chain is having a hard time pleasing shareholders with its results.

While it's in a few large chains such as Bed Bath & Beyond, independent retailers account for 80 percent of sales.

Kirsten Stuckey, 28, is the founder of Riffraff, an emerging retail chain based in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

During his tenure as leader of the chain's retail pharmacy business, he directly managed all aspects of our retail pharmacy business and partnered on key innovations including the ScriptPath prescription management system, the Rx Savings Finder, medication adherence programs and home delivery.

While Black Friday is a diluted event, with sales starting earlier in the month at most major chains, it still anchors the biggest shopping weekend of the year and can get a retailer's holiday season off to a good, or bad, start.

With nearly 10,000 pharmacies in 49 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, CVS Pharmacy is one of the nation's largest retail pharmacy chains.

Many of the companies are strong national retail chains, he said, and the challenge is finding the right retailer or mix of retailers.

It's improved its supply - chain management and revamped its retail strategy; direct - to - consumer sales account for 43 % of its business.

But of course, it gets much more sophisticated for manufacturers that rely on raw materials or retailers that rely on inventory, and can't sell anything without an uninterrupted supply chain.

With at least 10 retail bankruptcies so far this year among major U.S. chains and waves of individual store closures, traditional brick - and - mortar shopping looks wobbly.

And in a sure sign that this concept is taking hold with mainstream retailers, Alex & Ani, a $ 230 million jewelry store chain, announced Thursday that it will be rolling out iBeacon technology in all of its stores across the country.

Many of these practices were in place when researchers began an eight - month pretest at Gap to study the effects of more stable schedules for retail workers in three of the chain's stores.

That was the first application or use - case that Salesforce built for us, and we've had quite a lot of interest from hospitality, airlines, hotel chains and retailers about extending off that.

News emerged over the weekend that the two retailers had opted out of Apple Pay in favor of a rival system that roughly 50 chains, including Wal - Mart and Best Buy, are developing for in - house use.

Wat made the transition to become Savers» managing director in 2007, and in 2012 she became the managing director of Watson U.K., which took care of two major retail chains: Savers and Superdrug.

As retailers and brands vie for a piece of a hit that takes players from place to place, fast food chain McDonald's Japan (mcd) said its nearly 3,000 shops across Japan would serve as spots where Pokemon can be battled or «trained» in the game — within limits.

HBC picked up more than swanky retail space in its recent friendly acquisition of luxury U.S. chain Saks Fifth Avenue.

While one might think such a state - of - the - art technology and how it facilitates high - touch customer service would more suitable to upscale stores, eBay thinks the technology could work even in more value - oriented retail chains.

«If you're not a hands - on person [and you] only know how to delegate, the transition to self - employment can be tough,» says John Zambelli, 61, who was previously COO of a retail menswear chain and now owns NaturesPet.com, an Elmwood, New Jersey - based company selling natural and holistic pet products.

Pashak's first line of retailers is specialty bike shops, but ideally he'd also sell through a high - end «lifestyle» chain like Restoration Hardware or even a big - box store that could handle the volume he anticipates.

Wayne, New Jersey - based Toys «R» Us, which also owns the Babies «R» Us chain, is among dozens of traditional brick - and - mortar retailers that have struggled under high debt as more consumers shop online.

A group of investors, including Dippin» Dots ice cream owner Fischer Enterprises and chief executive of American retailer Camping World and CNBC host Marcus Lemonis are hoping to resurrect the bakery chain.