The company's customers can be broken down into three categories: on - premise customers such as hotels and restaurants, wine and liquor stores, and large -
scale chain stores.
Not exact matches
At the other end of the spectrum, Mail Boxes Etc. uses a
scale of minus 2 to 2 for each of 20 criteria, which are weighted to arrive at a total score; Jinwoong, the sporting - goods marketer, uses an «eight - link
chain» model for managing decisions about potential new products; the links detail the company's strengths in eight areas, such as distribution and in -
store merchandising.
But Daley and Thorne knew from the start they needed funding to
scale and fill out their long - term business plan: investing in R&D and in a supply
chain to handle orders from a growing list of
stores (500 and counting) in 26 countries.
The mall was certainly on the upper
scale featuring more stylish, trendy and non
chain like
stores.
Chains like Starbucks
scale up corporately; each of its 7,087 U.S.
stores is owned by and managed from its Seattle headquarters.
Indie bookstores are filling the void with the recent Borders collapse and other
chains scaling back and closing
stores in unprofitable markets.
Given the large
scale of
chain stores» coverage and Amazon's low price entry, the internet retail behemoth might face an uphill climb to compete with the competitors.
A six - month search of public animal transport records in multiple states has revealed that more than 95 percent of the retail
chain's
stores are supporting puppy mills by purchasing their dogs from large -
scale dog brokers and / or directly from puppy mill operations.
In September 2011, the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) filed a class action lawsuit against Barkworks, a southern California pet
store chain, «claiming the
stores repeatedly engage in fraud and false advertising in an effort to conceal from customers that they source their puppies from abusive «puppy mills» — large -
scale commercial dog breeding facilities.
Talk about a jumping off point for further exploration... One reason small businesses have an advantage over big box
stores and
chains is that they are human -
scaled, or in your term, humanified.
Defended large -
scale retailer and national gas station and convenience
store chain in putative state - court action under Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practice Act involving gift cards