Sentences with phrase «same big box stores»

The same big box stores that were selling $ 50 HDMI cables ten years ago are happy to sell $ 50 cables today to any sucker willing to pay for them.

They didn't look at how these same big box stores — and the publishers themselves — failed to embrace the e-book market from the beginning.

Not exact matches

It's hard to differentiate from one big box store to another; they offer the same products and generally the same price.

(If you can't afford to spring for a Cuisinart right now, a cheaper one from a big - box store will do okay, you just might have to scrape the sides more because it won't suck the ingredients down in the same way.)

The Reichardts also wanted something more stylish than the big box store brands that were everywhere, but with the same convenience features.

you can say the same thing about the big blue box store that beats up on companies to sell at dirt cheap prices & don't care if the company sacrifices quality to have their product sold at said store.

Everything from big box stores to innovative entrepreneurs, all in the same place.

All these fairs, and others, too, were going on at the same time in the same cavernous spaces, which were like the biggest big - box stores ever built, their denizens streaming into the fairgrounds, riding half - mile - long mobile walkways, hitching rides on commuter trains from the beautiful old central railway station so evocative for Paul of prewar Europe, drinking late into the night in the dangerously crowded lobbies of the hotels, hungover and sleepless and hoarse by day, complaining and fibbing and wheedling and smoking and drinking, gorging and lying and drinking and fucking by night, and having the time of their lives.

The geography of same - day delivery depots, in other words, looks a lot like the geography of classic big - box stores.

In fact, I don't on one level because those same small stores were already in decline because of the big box stores long before Amazon burst onto the scene.

So, the harm was still mainly coming from the big box stores that could offer the same books as the smaller stores but at a lesser price.

At the same time, Amazon is setting itself up for physical store growth, but there's only one problem: that fierce loyalty may not transfer to the company's big box name.

Of course, you can pre-order one now and have it shipped to your door that very same day, but we know how some of you enjoy stepping foot in big box stores to pick up the latest buzzworthy product.

Electronics stores might see fewer people shopping for new tablets or laptops, but big - box retailers like Walmart will still sell the same number of essential items, said Middleton.

«Fish tanks are a commodity, and Internet retailers and some big - box stores like PetSmart sell them at the same price we buy them for,» he says.

When customers walk through the front door of any business, they can usually tell if there is a personal touch in the store or if it's strictly an impersonal corporate presentation — or even worse, aisle after aisle, shelf after shelf of the same things they can find in every chain and big - box store.

Instead of getting stressed out battling the crowds at the malls and browsing the same old goods at big box stores, take advantage of the wealth of unique small businesses right here in Leesburg and all around Loudoun County.

I bought the product at the big box store and it says that it is a dog product but the lady at the store said it was the same as the cat product and there was no problem with using this on my cat.»

At the same time, he said that retail sales were strong, though he pointed out that most of the growth is coming from online activities and little to no growth is coming from the likes of mass retailers, big - box pet specialty stores and independent pet retailers.

To put the growth of the big - box chains in context, PetSmart and Petco each added around the same number of stores as all of the other players on the Top 25 list combined during the same period.

So what if the independent across town has some of the same new items; the local big box store or mass merchant won't.

«We aim to give each customer the same bargaining power as the big - box stores.

It's a familiar scenario: You walk into your local big box electronics retailer and, while admiring the impossible - to - miss, state - of - the - art 3 - D home entertainment system on display, one of the store's helpful salespeople informs you that you can take that very same system home with you today and pay no interest until 2013...

Then they sold them back to the incoming students who would otherwise buy those same items at big box stores.

Wire - Lite installs the same monitoring sensors and function controls developed by veteran energy management practitioners for big - box stores and office buildings.

Instead, it serves the same price - conscious, careless or uninformed people that have always bought legal forms from office supply stores and will - drafting software from big box electronics retailers.

Except for a handful of specialized and / or brand - differentiated elites like Cravath and Wachtell, most firms became undifferentiated big box stores offering the same practice capability at similar pricing delivered from an identical economic model and objective — maximization of PPP.

One way or the other, my recommendation is the same: go to your local carrier or big box store to hold the device in your hand before you buy it.

Shopping center REITs continued to make headway in re-leasing vacant big box stores in the first quarter, leading to stable occupancies and smaller declines in same - store NOIs compared to 2009.

«The good news is that even though Apple, Netflix, Amazon, eBay, and other online giants killed record stores and video rental shops and are in the process of doing the same to electronics and bookstore big boxes, e-commerce will never replace the brick - and - mortar shopping experience,» says Sean Glickman, CCIM, managing director of Glickman Retail Group in Maitland, Fla..

Instead of forcing department store and specialty retailers to compete with newer retail concepts at nearby centers, Coral Ridge brings together department stores, big - box retailers, entertainment features, a modern cinema and specialty retail - all working together under the same roof.

At the same time, some shopping centers and malls are retrofitting vacant big box stores, subdividing to attract smaller retailers.

The last big - box book retailer standing reported that for the nine - week period ending Dec. 29, its same - store sales fell 8.2 percent.

«Purchase items such as lamps, mirrors, prints and ornamental pieces to look as if they were collected or handed down, rather than purchased at a big box store all at the same time,» says Lisa.

I'm pretty sure I can find the same finish and design at one of the «big box» stores.)

Tired of the same old drab, big box store shelves?