Sentences with phrase «of getting to the stores»

I'd wake briefly, just to witness the spectacle of the boys, generally indifferent to the lure of material goods, stoked at the prospect of getting to the stores before other equally euphoric teenagers.

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But keep in mind approximately 70 percent of all freight in the U.S. is moved by tractor - trailers: Whatever you just bought, whether at a store or online... chances are it got part of the way to you on a tractor - trailer.

What's more, a CVS store is an easy drive to tens of millions of Americans, an ordinary CVS with those services can turn into a new option compared to a hospital visit to get a blood test or get their blood pressure checked.

Unless you leap over the turnstile — which would definitely be noticed — you can't get inside without providing a form of payment, so there's no way I can see to steal from the store.

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If you're shipping that just - in - time inventory of Christmas lights from a manufacturer in Indiana to dollar stores across the upper Midwest, the manufacturer won't hire you again if the shipment gets there December 26 (or even August 26, for that matter).

From 10 - hour calls, to a rep running to get a pair of shoes from a rival store to hand deliver to a customer because the company ran out, stories of jaw - dropping customer service stories are common there.

The company still gets the majority of its revenue from outlet stores, where cachet takes a back seat to price cuts.

Warehouse workers got so desperate to move shipments they would sometimes slice open a crate that was supposed to contain, say, a dozen boxes of paper towels but only had 10, stuff in two more boxes, tape it shut and send it to a store that way.

One of the most important decisions concerned technology — the systems that allow the company to order products from vendors, process goods through warehouses and get them onto store shelves promptly.

And don't forget, not only is it very expensive to get into the specialty food market, but you don't get paid right away; you have to make your product in advance and store it with an average of 90 days for the money on your sales [from wholesaling] to come in.

Most of our capital has been used to purchase the freezers where we store our fish and other items to get the business established.

«I recall a time they weren't able to get the boat out here for two months,» Keith Ahsoon, a Ta'u resident whose family owns one of the food stores on the island, wrote in the SolarCity blog post.

And since consumers often decide what to buy based on the advice they get in stores, Switch has tried to win over salesclerks through instructional videos on how to sell the benefits of a step - in system.

Moreover, with every advance Antonetti makes in the market, she runs into new demands for costly promotions, such as a buy - one - get - one - free campaign she agreed to do as part of SoapWorks» planned entry into 100 Walgreens stores.

When we saw that our first location was taking forever to open, we established a new store operator position and got John DeFranco, who was then employed by Michaels, to help us create a store launch process and then use that as a checklist to expedite the launch of future stores.

To make sure things go smoothly, Walmart will have a pick - up department manager at each store and workers in that part of the store got specialized training to speed up the pickup procesTo make sure things go smoothly, Walmart will have a pick - up department manager at each store and workers in that part of the store got specialized training to speed up the pickup procesto speed up the pickup process.

To meet that target, the average Couche - Tard store keeps getting bigger, as the food - service area — once just a roller grill, a coffee pot and a Froster machine — grows to accommodate an ever - expanding array of on - the - go foodTo meet that target, the average Couche - Tard store keeps getting bigger, as the food - service area — once just a roller grill, a coffee pot and a Froster machine — grows to accommodate an ever - expanding array of on - the - go foodto accommodate an ever - expanding array of on - the - go foods.

Realizing that Get Real Girl wasn't then ready for the inventory demands of Wal - Mart stores, Machin instead sold product to Wal - Mart's online operation in San Francisco, where her company «could break in gently.»

In addition to that, Macy's has been looking to reduce store clutter and re-establish itself as a tastemaker and has relaunched its loyalty program as part of its efforts to get back on track as detailed in this in - depth look at the company in the current issue of Fortune.

The first is actually creativity, because it's during REM sleep and dreaming specifically when the brain starts to collide all of the information that you've recently learned together with all of this back catalog of autobiographical information that you've got stored up in the brain.

Early steps to get there include greater advertising spending, a move to sign hundreds of sponsorships with NFL and MLB players (the target is 500 players for those two leagues alone), and a plan to change the look of the company's retail stores.

A store in Carytown, Virginia canceled the release of a highly - anticipated shoe after hundreds of people swarmed the store in order to get it.

Instead of waiting for delivery, you pick up your purchases from the store — curbside — without ever having to get out of your car.

Once you accumulate all of the kitchen tools necessary to cook a variety of breakfast, lunch, and dinner dishes, the single drawer you use to store them in gets hard to close.

The Association for Information and Image Management coined the phrase to bring attention to the massive amount of data companies get and store in email without considering how smart, safe or practical it is to keep it there.

Thanks to the Internet of Things, shopping at brick - and - mortar stores just got a lot more personal.

The first few stores Headbands of Hope ever got into materialized because I walked in with headbands and asked to speak with the buyer.

Moreover, having automated systems can also help a grocery business grow because manual processes become more time - consuming and lead to more errors as a store gets more customers: «All of those things make the process more efficient,» Reid says.

The move was part of an effort to improve customer service and keep good workers in a tightening job market at a time when working in stores is getting more involved.

Part of the tea retailer's success has been its focus on store design and how it gets people to sample its product

«There's nothing worse than going for lunch and getting to your afternoon meeting with big pit stains under your arms,» says Melissa Austria, founder of Toronto - based menswear clothing store Gotstyle.

Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal play a pair of teens who head on a road trip with an older woman, but come to learn that there's more in store than getting lucky as they learn about themselves and the realities of life.

It works as advertised, but the prices are marked up, and customers run the risk of not being able to get what they want because the store is out of stock.

We believe that while many brands come and go, one thing that will never go out of style is the love we have for our pets, the extent we will go to get them what they need and the importance of being the go - to store for expert advice and best - in - class customer experience.

Let's say you're preparing for the initial launch of your online store, and you've set up everything (ads, initial customers and order - processing staff) to get ready for a certain date.

Such services will largely allow people to get rid of their home consoles and eliminate the need to go to the store to buy games on discs, all of which is good given the increasing complexity of such hardware.

You can scroll vertically and, if you want to get into a specific category — say, the channel store — you swoosh over horizontally and you're into a new set of tiles.

If history is our guide, he'll likely kick off his talk with how well Apple has done at getting its customers to run the latest versions of iOS and OS X, how many apps are available in the company's App Store, uptick in Apple TV usage, and perhaps most importantly to developers, how much the iPhone maker has doled out to the software makers as part of their revenue - sharing agreement.

If you're Apple with a cash hoard exceeding $ 250 billion, you've got to be looking at how really well your services business (iTunes, Apple Music, App Store, etc.) is doing, and saying, how do I accelerate this part of my business even more rapidly?

Getting them to an American jewelry store often involves destructive pit mining, slave or child labor, violent militias, and a long chain of middlemen that makes it hard to connect any of those undesirable inputs to the end product.

Customers who store their data in Google's cloud will get faster access to it simply by virtue of being closer to it.

It helps doing the simplest things like going to the grocery store before the tourists get here for the weekend or getting your kid out of school early or simply just getting some downtime at the beach by yourself.

First, your store, service business, or restaurant in Minneapolis isn't going to get a lot of benefit out of traffic that comes from Toledo, or Mexico City.

Motivate consumers to get up off of their couches and call you, come to your store, or visit your website now by using any (but preferably all) of the three techniques described below.

Click (buy online) and pick (drive to the store to get it) has become amazingly popular — especially with moms who'd rather throw the kids in the car and make three quick pickups at her favorite stores, without parking, instead of sitting at home and hoping for the delivery guy to show.

«When I was going to school in Chicago, I got one of these old - school department store cards — and went from getting 10 percent off on jeans to owing more than $ 500 and getting calls from collectors.

You can't make money running a showroom, and as brick and mortar stores close, jobs and tax revenue are getting lost — and even Amazon customers are losing something, in the form of a convenient place to check out products.

You can stock up on hot dogs and soda for your barbecue; find summer clothes, like tank tops and flip flops, at Dick's, JCPenney, and other clothing stores; and many of the books and movies being offered appear to fit the Independence Day theme, including the Totally Hilarious All About America Activity Book from Exchange, which you can get for 25 % off.