Sentences with phrase «old chains of»

It demolished its old chain of command, a traditional hierarchy with heads of divisions reporting to managers.

He decided to invest a big part of his newfound wealth in Jo - Ann Stores, a drab 64 - year - old chain of fabric and craft shops based in Hudson, Ohio.

The original store design for Mr. Rags, a 15 - year - old chain of clothing and accessory stores, was created for a lot of good reasons — none of them directly related to the target customer, explains James Adams, director of design for NBBJ Retail...

Not exact matches

Makini Howell, the owner of nine - year - old Plum Restaurants, a vegan restaurant chain in Seattle, plans to adjust the wages for her 52 - person team in set increments between now and next spring when the law change goes into effect.

In other words, if the company notices a shift in local consumer tastes, it can fire off a batch of new garb from a nearby factory and get product on shelves many months faster than the old way — a supply chain triumph given that Levi works two years in advance and uses more than 1,000 different finishes in a season, which lasts six months.

For companies old and new, this evolution from selling products to selling services — leveraging the proliferation of internal and external data across the value - chain, to redefine or create your brand, product or service and create unique relationships — is a powerful concept.

At such moments you might catch me humming another old favourite, Aretha Franklin's «Chain of Fools.»

McChrystal still marvels at JSOC's old organizational hierarchy as a model of order, with groups operating in silos and a chain of command to communicate.

But customers were already voicing their discontent with the 60 - year - old hamburger chain because of its plans to relocate its corporate headquarters from Miami to Canada in a deal that could lower its taxes.

At just 38 years old, he's the CEO of a Quebec - based chain called Fix Auto.

Sure, if you spend all your time in the feel - good blogosphere you get the impression that the old school command - and - control style of management is dead and everybody has their Neanderthal brains safely chained up in a deep dark dungeon somewhere.

On April 5, 16 - year - old Nevada - native Carter Wilkerson tweeted at the fast food chain, asking «how many retweets for a year of free chicken nuggets?»

With popular and sometimes violent uprisings daisy - chaining their way from Tunisia to Egypt to Libya and beyond, protesters in the so - called MENA region (Middle East and North Africa) have given fresh meaning to the old «domino theory» of political revolution.

With a changing menu, there's always something new try at Old Chicago, a Windy City - inspired restaurant chain that serves everything from meat - stuffed calzones to «Oh My Spaghetti Pie,» a pie - shaped portion of pasta tossed in Alfredo sauce and baked with Italian cheeses.

The parent of the Gap, Old Navy, and Banana Republic chains also saw comparable - store sales rise by 5 percent.

According to employees surveyed by Fortune, «there's a lot of love and caring» at this 100 - year - old family - owned grocery chain.

The Roasterie, a 17 - year - old company in Kansas City, Missouri, for example, sent out a small price increase a couple months ago, according to Paul Massad, the company's director of supply chain and self - described «bean hunter.»

Walgreens might be a 116 - year - old drugstore but it is feeling the need these days to remind customers it's a pharmacy chain that can be at the center of their health and wellness.

The 128 - year - old beauty company, known for products such as Skin - So - Soft and ANEW skincare, has been hit by a triple whammy: the rise in sales of low - priced beauty products at mass - market chains such as Walgreen (WAG) and Dollar General (DG), the apparent obsolescence of its direct - selling model for beauty items, and ill - advised forays into fashion, jewelry and pricier skincare products that alienated many customers.

The sporting - goods chain sold a gun to Nikolas Cruz, the 19 - year - old accused of killing 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida, on February 14, though a different gun was used in the shooting.

Denny's turnaround is all but a wholesale reinvention of the old - line diner chain, President and CEO John Miller told CNBC in an interview with Cramer.

Company loyalty runs deep at this more than century - old grocery chain, which spent $ 50 million on employee development last year (plus $ 5 million in scholarships) and filled half of its open positions internally.

A fast food seafood joint, Nordsee is one of the oldest fast food chains in the world, and originally started out as a 19th century fish supply shop before settling into the restaurant business.

With more than 280 stores across the United States — and, by the end of this year, three in Canada — the 114 - year - old family - run business just might be the retail industry's Holy Grail: a chain that does everything right.

Typically, a contentious hard fork occurs when some of the nodes — which previously mined on the old network — decide to switch to the new chain; this ultimately splits the mining community into two camps, one which now follows the rules of the new chain and another one which continues to adhere to the old one.

RadioShack, a long - ailing 94 - year - old electronics chain, filed for bankruptcy protection on Thursday after striking a deal to sell up to 2,400 of its stores to the wireless service provider Sprint and a hedge fund that is its biggest shareholder.

The near century - old company hit its peak in the 1990s, though sales began sliding in the mid-2000s as consumers began to seek pre-assembled hardware in favor of the chain's do - it - yourself spirit.

When a hard fork occurs, a new set of tokens are created on the new chain but the old set continues to exist; holders of the old tokens find themselves holding both old and new tokens, so long as the wallet in which they were storing the old tokens before the fork also supports the new ones.

Seasons 52, a fine - dining chain owned by Darden Restaurants Inc, will pay $ 2.85 million to settle the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's lawsuit accusing the company of refusing to hire «old white guys» and other applicants over 40 in order to maintain a youthful image.

Much like the older brother before it, QTUM is providing a DAO - like Account that can incentivize technical projects that can stay on their UTXO chain, but come out of the shadows to work within the community.

When it inked a $ 4 - billion leveraged buyout deal back in 2010, it became the latest in a long line of suitors that had promised to «fix» the 60 - year old chain, which was flagging in the face of stiff competition from a reinvigorated McDonald's and a new crop of rivals like Chipotle Mexican Grill and Panera Bread.

Among the attention - grabbing stunts: a $ 1 million jackpot for one of the first shoppers to visit Gap Inc.'s Old Navy chain on Black Friday.

The 62 - year - old is an outspoken supporter of the U.K.'s decision to leave the European Union, having previously distributed a «Brexit manifesto» printed on the pub chain's beer coasters.

In virtually every industry around the world, blockchain is disintermediating traditional supply chains and, in turn, upending decades - old regulatory structures that have been built around a certain way of doing business.

And judging by the financial performance of the 21 - year old, 800 - store chain, customers appreciate the devotion to executing the perfect bite.

WESCO, originally the distribution arm of the old Westinghouse Electric, is still perceived to be a mere distributor, but we believe the company has evolved into a value - added supply chain outsourcer.

This created a split or «fork» in the blockchain since computers with the recent version of the software accepted the invalid block and continued to build on the diverging chain, whereas older versions of the software rejected it and continued extending the blockchain without the offending block.

These transactions are then validated by supercomputers and timestamped then kept in a linear chain that is linked to older blocks containing all transactions that have been recorded in the entirety of the blockchain.

This will result in the death of the old chain, as it doesn't make sense for anyone to support it due to a lack of incentives.

The group includes three major market players in Russia: United Art Tickets — major provider of tickets for concerts, theatre, shows and sports, a supplier of ERP and e-ticket platforms for venues; MDTZK (Moscow Theatre and Shows Ticket Offices Direction)-- the oldest and the largest ticket retail chain in Moscow with 130 outlets; and Arena Group — a sport ticketing processing supplier.

The company that owns the department store chain, Hudson's Bay, said Tuesday that it was selling off the flagship store to WeWork, a seven - year - old start - up whose office - sharing model is helping to reinvent the concept of work space.

Jesus gave us a clear picture of what that was all about as did others say Peter for example 2 Peter 2:4 - 6: For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved to judgment; 5And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; 6And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample to those that after should live ungodly;

We shall live through a long, long chain of days and endless evenings; we shall patiently bear the trials fate sends us; we'll work for others, now and in our old age, without ever knowing rest, and when our time comes, we shall die submissively; and there, beyond the grave, we shall say that we have suffered, that we have wept, that we have known bitterness, and God shall have pity on us; and you and I, Uncle, dear Uncle, shall behold a life that is bright, beautiful, and fine.

Made in Cambodia by disadvantaged artisans of brass recycled from old bombs, and hanging on an 18 ″ brass cable chain, it arrives in a 100 % recycled jewelry box — perfect for gift - giving!

You can not find these as «dialog» in the old corporate culture of the church, because doctrine is key... and a clear chain of command has created a sustainable profit line for years.

Let go of the now which is frozen in emotion for the sake of a future freed from old chains.

The old idea of the «great chain of being» implied that all organisms can be ordered in a single sequence, from primitive to complex.

In the utterly tragic figure of old Eli and in the loss of the ark, the symbol of God's presence, from the central sanctuary at Shiloh (probably destroyed by the Philistines in this time), we are further prepared for the establishment of monarchy in Israel: it was Philistine aggression, far too powerful to be checked by the resources of a loose tribal confederation, which precipitated the chain of events leading through Saul and David to a unified and extensive, if short - lived, Israelite kingdom.

Your chains are self imposed and imaginary, and your countless rules to live by are extracted from a collection of myths thousands of years old that include slavery and many other detestable acts.

You sat in the corner of the fluorescent chain restaurant while the older two balanced precariously on those tall bar chairs, Evelynn hollering for more of your ham sandwich from her highchair, we were all windswept and alive as birth.