Sentences with phrase «of our small town stores»

We did use three different brands of strawberry ice cream — since we were buying in bulk and none of our small town stores had enough of one kind.

Not exact matches

With a net worth in excess of $ 66 billion, Amancio Ortega is the second - richest man in the world thanks to his control of the Spanish fashion behemoth Inditex, which Ortega — who started out as a delivery boy for a local clothing store at 14 — turned from a small - town dress shop into one of the largest fashion empires on the planet.

A one - stoplight town with a couple of banks, a few grocery stores and a decent German deli, Markdale used to be a small industrial hub, with a furniture plant and footwear manufacturer alongside Chapman's.

Ross LeBlanc — who grew up watching her mother stay up late to bake cake for patrons of her small - town Ontario fabric store — knows when a customer feels taken care of, that customer comes back, and no expansion of the brand would be successful without setting exceptional service standards.

And that happens to be the strong suit of Groupe Valentine, a 95 - store, family - run chain based in small - town Saint - Hyacinthe east of Montreal.

Some other department stores like Giant Tiger, Fields and the NorthWest Company are expanding their influence and do well in smaller towns, but the big four have the lion's share of the market.

A socially progressive town, it has few chain stores for a city of its size, due to local regulations intended to support small and local businesses.

Amancio Ortega is the fourth - richest man in the world thanks to his control of the Spanish fashion behemoth Inditex, which Ortega — who started out as a delivery boy for a local clothing store at 14 — turned from a small - town dress shop into one of the largest fashion empires on the planet.

David Ian Gray, a retail strategist based in Vancouver, says that there remain huge differences between the Bay's flagships (the so - called «A» stores) and the bulk of stores in suburban malls and small towns — the «B» and «C» stores, in places like Medicine Hat, Alta., and Sydney, N.S. — which Gray says don't have the same selection or service, and none of the magic.

These are your small mom and pop stores, start - ups, and local businesses that have become the fixture of town.

He travels frequently, exploring small towns and markets to acquire sauces, cheeses and wines like a museum curator gathering rare artifacts — except he shares his collection with every customer that passes through the doors of Holiday Market, a grocery store in Canton, Mich..

The place is so small, and the houses are so spread apart by farmland and such that the only stop to trick or treat at is the tiny convenience store in the middle of the town square.

I took full advantage of the town's small health food store and bulk bins, and a random plum tree in the parking lot of a strip mall, of all places.

I had no choice at the time — we were living in a small town and our local grocery store didn't have a single loaf of dairy - free healthy bread for this wheat lover.

In the town of Ville Platte in south Louisiana, Tony and Jennifer Walker ran a small convenience store and deli, where they sold «all the basics — fried chicken, French fries, corn dogs, hot links and other such food items found in a deli,» Jack says.

On a fall Saturday in the small Tennessee town of McMinnville, U.S. Marine Corps veteran Travis McVey hugs his 11 - year - old son Logan, climbs into his ’85 Honda Accord and begins an hour - long drive to a promotional bottle - signing at a regional liquor store.

The company was founded as Roadtown Wholesale in April 1961 and grew from humble beginnings in a small rented store in Road Town, Tortola, the capital of BVI.

Discounters like Aldi or Lidl aside every grocery store — and I live in a small town — carries at least a semi-acceptable kind of peanut butter [read: containing added oils and some sugar which it looks like Wegman's PB had, too].

This is part 2 of dinnertime dining stories which happened at a local store in a small and typical town in New Jersey.

There is nothing I love more than exploring new small towns full of local stores and delicious eats.

It is worth spending a couple of (toddler - free) hours in town scouring the charity shops / thrift stores for small items to use as cheap rewards.

-LSB-...] I love more than exploring new small towns full of local stores and delicious eats.

Even in our relatively small town, washing soda is easy to find on the laundry aisle of the grocery store and it is also available in boxes and in bulk online.

Anita is based in Brooklyn, where small batches of this stuff are made, and we've spotted her delivering the yogurt herself to stores around town.

There may be slightly better choices, but in the end, I think sugar is sugar I don't want to hunt all over town (and a bunch of online shops as well) when something from my small town grocery store (or even local farmers market) will work just as well.

I live in a very small town, so the majority of the ingredients I use can be found at your local grocery store.

It's available for an annual fee as a website app and mobile app (for iPhone and Android), featuring over 100,000 store locations, small local farms, 15,000 researched and approved products, and a search feature to find locations near you or out of town.

Last summer I was supposed to be downsizing because we were moving... on one of my trips back from our new house to the old, I stumbled upon this antique wardrobe in a small town antique store.

I recently brought a few items to my small town's consignment store and in one month got a check for $ 15 (which means $ 30 of my clothing sold, which comes out to probably 4 shirts and a pair of shoes being sold).

That secondhand store is a bit of a hit and miss, like most thrift shops in small towns I would guess, as sometimes you come across a real gem, and the rest of the time it's all 1980's prom dresses and polyester cardigans.

I have also noticed that it is very easy to find at most of your local stores, and with me living in a small town, sometimes I drive out of town for new products.

Most of the stores were sort of boutiques so I took a look around to get an idea of what fashion meant in small town America.

There are dozens of small, local designers popping up — most likely in a store or town near you — so do some homework, save some money, then bite the bullet and buy the clothes you really love.

And yet now is a store I frequent being it's the main store in this small town...) and purchased about 6 - 8 bags of plain white ribbed Hanes..

After the IRS confiscates much of their money, video store magnate Johnny Rose (Eugene Levy), his soap star wife Moira (Catherine O'Hara), and their two kids, David (Daniel Levy) and Alexis (Annie Murphy) are forced to move to the small town of Schitt's Creek that he had bought as a joke

Our host introduces us to Russell; he's a small town boy about to make the pitch of a lifetime to one of the world's most famous toy stores.

Thanks to the efforts of his social - climbing wife Jessie (Risdon), furniture store employee Wilbur Todd (Leon Errol) is tossed headfirst into the world of small - town politics.

Nicholas Sparks is sitting this January out, but Forever My Girl offers a shoulder to cry on, along with the hallmarks of the most romantic movies ever made: parenthood, precocious kids, humble small - town stores, and the grim specter of death forever hanging over the characters» every move.

This is part of my Sidney Lumet Syllabus The film revolves around the world of Val Xavier (Marlon Brando) as he seems to stumble across a small town and manages to get job at a convenience store.

Inspired by a nightmare, Twixt — filmed in 3 - D, but never widely seen outside film festivals, and now making a belated debut on home video — drifts between the waking and sleeping hours of down - on - his - luck horror novelist Hall Baltimore (Val Kilmer), whose book tour takes him to the small town of Swann Valley and to a poorly attended signing held at a hardware store.

Small - Town Guy The family hardware store and the studio system, Hank Fonda and Alfred Hitchcock, the Martin Bomber and the Spirit of St. Louis: James Stewart interviewed By Michael Wilmington

One of the most effectively unpleasant King adaptations, this 1993 offering features a blistering turn from Max Von Sydow as Leland Gaunt, the devilish proprietor of a small town antiques store who offers customers the realisation of their wildest dreams in return for loyalty and violent favours.

In American Ultra, a small - town stoner and convenience store clerk finds out he's a highly skilled government agent capable of killing with a spoon.

Because of Winn - Dixie opens with young Opal (AnnaSophia Robb) and her father, known simply as «The Preacher» (Jeff Daniels) moving to a very small Southern town, so that «The Preacher» can start a new church inside an old convenience store.

Today, amid the farms and small - town stores, all three schools in this 1,800 - student district have been equipped with Wi - Fi, elementary school students use their own iPads in class, older students take their MacBook laptops home every day, and a state - of - the art, totally wired high school opened this school year.

Its a good thing that Target will begin carrying this item, because retail giant Target is in allot of small towns in America, and will give people the option to buy the item the same day, rather then purchasing it online or from Bestbuy or a Apple Store.

Now, small town libraries and stores sell copies of the book, but it sells very well on Amazon.»

She met the love of her life, they both quit their jobs, and she and her fiancee took a romantic tour around the world... and then everything fell apart.Returning to North America with nothing but the realization that she's a disaster at relationships, Kylee seeks the help of her childhood best friend who co-owns a New Age jewelry store with three other women in the small beachside town of Peachland.

How many of us remember the cries against Walmart when it started coming into smaller cities and towns and the five & dimes and hardware stores were put out of business.

If you're in a small town and know the local bookstore well, or if your book of cooking recipes would do well in the mom - and - pop grocery specialty food store down the street, they may be willing to sell your book directly.