Sentences with phrase «of general stores»

Laura, the owner of the general store at the time, had this amazing ability to turn even the simplest food into something amazing; her passion was infectious.

Sequence is planning apartments for the upper floors and an unusual type of general store for the ground level.

But when Sue walks up to the counter of the general store, their cynical ploy falters in the face of the shopkeep (Titus Welliver), who speaks to Sue as if he were the film's writer, breaking down her carefully composed behavior with homespun wisdom and analysis.

Though they share the running of a general store, more and more of Thelma's time is taken up by her growing family.

«You need to thoroughly investigate any prospective vendor,» says Bob Crichlow, president of The General Store, a POS vendor in Lakeland, Fla. (www.thegeneralstore.com).

«Bath & Body Works stores are themed around the idea of a general store,» Schlager says.

Not exact matches

«On average, she is shopping our stores about three times a month,» said Todd Vasos, CEO of Dollar General, in company's latest earnings call.

In May, Dollar General noted that Millennials, especially women, were increasingly shopping at their stores, representing 12 percent of all its customers and 24 percent of its sales.

Casey's General Store could be an example of that.

It's not much of a stretch to say Winnebago is Forest City: In town you'll find tiny Waldorf College and a business district that has thinned down to a quilt store, gas stations, a Dollar General, a Subway outlet, and not much more.

But the Target strategy is also likely to ease pressure on its margins by cutting down on overtime and general pay at a time when shoppers are scarce, the results of the «Black Friday» creep that has led many retailers to open their doors on Turkey Day and progressively bring up store opening times in the last decade.

«Today's versions have florals that can fit into any guy's wardrobe,» Kevin Carney, owner of Los Angeles - based menswear boutique Mohawk General Store, told the Wall Street Journal in 2014.

The first standalone app from the company since the launch of the general Uber app, UberEats will be live in the Apple App Store and the Google Play store by the end of MStore and the Google Play store by the end of Mstore by the end of March.

Wireless company Sprint Corp would operate as many as 1,750 of those stores under an agreement with Standard General, Sprint said separately.

As the U.S. economy improves, top dollar stores Dollar Tree and Dollar General have been seeing something of a secular recovery, Cramer said.

Electronics retailer RadioShack Corp filed for U.S. bankruptcy protection on Thursday and said it had a deal in place to sell as many as 2,400 stores to an affiliate of hedge fund Standard General, its lender and largest shareholder.

After abbreviated careers in medicine and law, CEO Brandt Louie's sons Stuart and Greg have returned to the family business, an empire launched by their grandfather in 1903 with the opening of Hok Yat Louie general store in Vancouver.

The consumer electronics chain had struck a deal just before its Chapter 11 filing in Delaware, which will see a sale of up to 2,400 of its stores to the U.S. wireless provider Sprint and its biggest shareholder Standard General.

U.S. - owned Safeway, which is mainly located in Western Canada, adds another $ 6.2 billion (7 %), and Costco, which is classified as a general merchandise store, has approximate food sales of $ 4 billion.

Though little known in the Canadian industry, her elevation to country CEO made sense because of her background: 17 years in supermarkets prepared her well to guide Walmart's food expansion, as did her Sam's experience with so - called combination stores that stock both food and general merchandise.

«There's pieces now we can invest in, pods of stores in the U.S., or elsewhere, and utilize the fact that they've got all the systems in Canada,» Rivett said in an interview Thursday after Fairfax's annual general meeting of shareholders.

General Wireless will then set up «stores within stores» at 1,750 of those locations for wireless network operator Sprint (S).

Dollar General slashed prices 10 % on average on about 450 of its best - selling items across 2,200 stores during the quarter, Chief Executive Todd Vasos said on a conference call.

Though Dollar Tree now outnumbers its competitor Dollar General (dg) in terms of stores, it still makes less in sales and has a lower market value than its peer.

The Pantry deal was reached about four years after the failure of Couche - Tard's US$ 1.9 - billion hostile bid for Casey's General Stores.

It's not clear how much of the slowdown in same - store sales is unique to Tims or the result of a general slowing in fast food.

«We wanted to run our store cooperatively, which suggested a partnership, but we were afraid of the liability risks we'd assume if we opted for a traditional partnership status,» says Carine Ullom, one of the owners of Simple Goods General Store, a Lawrence, Kans., retailer of environmentally safe products, which is set up as anstore cooperatively, which suggested a partnership, but we were afraid of the liability risks we'd assume if we opted for a traditional partnership status,» says Carine Ullom, one of the owners of Simple Goods General Store, a Lawrence, Kans., retailer of environmentally safe products, which is set up as anStore, a Lawrence, Kans., retailer of environmentally safe products, which is set up as an LLC.

But Rob Crooke, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group, explained that because the 3D Xpoint memory combines some of the elements of NAND and DRAM, you can have a lot of it (10 times more than current DRAM) and it's non-volatile, which means that when the power goes off the data stored in it will stick around.

At least 189 of the state's 351 municipalities have barred retail marijuana stores and, in most cases, cultivation facilities and other cannabis operations, too, according to local news reports, municipal records, and data collected by the office of Attorney General Maura Healey.

According to a survey last month of 100,000 sellers on Facebook by commerce platform vendor Payvment, 39 percent of respondents report having used Facebook Ads, «making this the most prevalent marketing tactic used by sellers to drive traffic to their stores beyond general Facebook marketing — such as promotions and deals posted to their wall — and nearly 70 percent of respondents say they plan to use Facebook Ads again.»

It quickly closed more than half of its 4,000 - plus stores, selling the rest to Standard General.

Actual results could differ materially from those expressed in or implied by the forward - looking statements contained in this release because of a variety of factors, including conditions to, or changes in the timing of, proposed real estate and other transactions, prevailing interest rates and non-recurring charges, store closings, competitive pressures from specialty stores, general merchandise stores, off - price and discount stores, manufacturers» outlets, the Internet, mail - order catalogs and television shopping and general consumer spending levels, including the impact of the availability and level of consumer debt, the effect of weather and other factors identified in documents filed by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Sprint and the hedge fund Standard General agreed to buy 1,500 to 2,400 of RadioShack's 4,000 company - owned stores in the United States.

The European Union law, called the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is the biggest overhaul of online privacy since the birth of the internet, giving Europeans the right to know what data is stored on them and the right to have it deleted.

Massmart is the third - largest retailer in South Africa, operating 290 general merchandise, electronics, and food stores and notching up sales of almost $ 5 billion in 2009.

A utopian case for Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general, if one even exists, is still struggling to articulate itself as merchant adoption hasn't caught on nearly a decade after the first block of Bitcoin transaction data was generated, and prices continue to fluctuate too wildly for it to be considered a store of value.

The European law, called the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is the biggest overhaul of online privacy since the birth of the internet, giving Europeans the right to know what data is stored on them and the right to have it deleted.

(Reuters)- Electronics retailer RadioShack Corp RSHC.PK filed for U.S. bankruptcy protection on Thursday and said it had a deal in place to sell as many as 2,400 stores to an affiliate of hedge fund Standard General, its lender and largest shareholder.

With that said, Blockchain, which is a kind of a general ledger for all Bitcoin transactions that have ever taken place, can show anyone how many Bitcoins are stored at a specific address.

Babs Ryan, the former head of card services for General Electric, said that it's pretty rare for a credit card to be owned outright by a retail store.

«We follow all state and local laws regulating the sales of sporting - related firearms at our select general - merchandise Fred Meyer stores,» she said.

«General merchandise stores» (the rest of the label was cut off in the chart) also includes warehouse clubs and supercenters.

«At this time, the general judgment is that their volatile valuations, and inadequate investor and consumer protection, make them unsafe to rely on as a common means of payment, a stable store of value or a unit of account,» the report said.

If we look back at the dip in oil prices in the fourth quarter of last year, general sentiment among investors was that consumers would use their savings at the pump to spend more at the store.

In the advance leading to the 1929 peak, the darlings included AT&T, Bethlehem Steel, General Electric, Montgomery Ward, National Cash Register, and Radio Corporation of America — companies that embraced the expanding world of department stores, communication, and industry.

Now undergoing Chapter 11 reorganization, RadioShack will sell as many as 2,400 stores to General Wireless, a subsidiary of its largest shareholder, hedge fund Standard General.

Per Google Finance, Family Dollar «operates a chain of more than 7,000 general merchandise retail discount stores in 44 states, providing primarily consumers with a selection of merchandise in neighborhood stores.

Purchase participating products - For every purchase (in - store and on walmart.ca) of select products from some of Canada's largest food companies, including Frito Lay, General Mills, Kellogg's, Kraft, Old Dutch Foods, Maple Leaf Foods, Quaker, and Unilever, participating vendors will donate a portion of the proceeds to Food Banks Canada - up to a maximum of $ 500,000.

In - store, our customers enjoy a one - stop shopping experience with general merchandise, fresh grocery, pharmacy and photocentres available at many of our locations in addition to the numerous products and services available through the businesses who operate in Walmart Canada stores including Tim Hortons, McDonalds and dry cleaners.

The Calgary Herald «s Dec. 24, 1983, edition was a reflection of its time: Jeanne Sauvé was appointed Canada's first female Governor General; retailer Waterbed Warehouse opened its third local big box store; and a Vancouver janitor was en route to Parliament Hill to perform an anti-Trudeau (Pierre Elliott) version of «Twelve Days of Christmas,» complete with the lyric «five metric morons.»