Sentences with phrase «store chain called»

If you're not familiar with it, the PC Plus Card is the reward card associated with the Canadian grocery store chain called Loblaws.

In 1993, when I was the CEO of Au Bon Pain, we acquired a 19 - store chain called the Saint Louis Bread Company, which we believed would help us build a gateway to the nation's suburbs.

You worked hard at building your reputation, so it's no surprise that a national pet store chain calls upon you to represent its move into the downtown Toronto area.

Not exact matches

This year, coffee chain Dunkin' Donuts did something radical: it's considering dropping «Donuts» from its name, and it opened several stores called simply «Dunkin,» with more likely to come.

The department store chain announced on Monday that it's preparing to roll out a new line of stores, called Nordstrom Local.

But another executive, who succeeded Gralnick as CEO, closed that chain down and invested in upscale stores called White House Black Market.

During a press conference earlier in the day, Bondi said convenience store chain 7 - Eleven has been called out for price gouging on water in more than 100 complaints.

On a conference call with analysts, Buffalo Wild Wings executives were asked what went wrong for the chain, which has now reported two straight quarters of same - store sales weaknesses.

Early on, when the enemy was video - store chain Blockbuster and the business was mailing DVDs to its U.S. subscribers, Hastings would tell anyone who would listen, «There's a reason we didn't call the company»DVD-by-Mail.com.»»

When Skorman was launching his chain of video stores, called EmpireVideo, he planned on big success, but was strategic about who he would target.

In fact, not long after there were tangible results to point to at Green Hills, large grocery - store chains started calling for advice on how to launch or fix their own frequent - shopper programs.

Neiman, which also owns Bergdorf Goodman and the Last Call outlet chain, is planning to open two new stores in the New York area, including its first ever Manhattan namesake store, among other initiatives.

It has struggled in the northeast, where it acquired a small New England chain called Bess Eaton, but then closed 36 stores due to poor performance, and it has opened new locations in a patchwork of formats that left consumers confused.

But it was his chain of music stores called Virgin Records, which he opened in 1972, which made Branson's fortune.

Although Coutu dabbled with a chain of small stores, which he called Farmeterias, he focused on the discount Pharm - Escompte format after visiting early big - box pharmacies in Toronto and realizing those chains would eat him up if he didn't go for volume.

I had a chain of convenience stores called Wagner's Meat.

The department store competitor owns a collection of smaller shops, including Home Goods and Marshalls, that have an even bigger footprint than the largest clothing shop in the U.S., another off - price chain called Ross.

The so - called Redbook survey showed last week that same - store sales were up 3.2 % over year - ago levels at 20 of the largest U.S. chain retailers despite continued pressure from online competition.

The rest of the company's production is sold through farmers» markets, to walk - in customers, and wholesale to high - end restaurants, country clubs, and a local chain of 18 natural food stores called Earth Fare.

It is rich in plant - based, healthy saturated fats called Medium Chain Fatty Acids (MCFAs), which are not immediately stored as fat but are used for energy.

I am on the east coast of the U.S. and we have a costco / sams club type chain of stores here called «BJ's» and they stock a 3 lb bag of organic frozen mixed berries for just 10 dollars!

The U.S. Food Waste Challenge calls on entities across the food chain — farms, agricultural processors, food manufacturers, grocery stores, restaurants, universities, schools, and local governments — to join efforts to reduce and better manage food loss and waste in the United States.

The Mail story, headlined «Give shoplifters softer sentences if they target top stores...» claimed that a new report written by Lammy calls for thieves to get lighter sentences if they target large retail chains, rather than corner shops.

Results of recent studies led by senior investigator Ruth Milanaik, DO, in which testers identifying themselves as 15 - year - old boys and girls called 244 health food stores in 49 states (both independently owned and large - chain retailers) will be the focus of three presentations Sunday at the Pediatric Academic Societies meeting in San Diego.

There is a magical chain store called Picard here, that specializes solely in frozen foods.

And coconut oil helps boost metabolism; some of it's fatty acids are called Medium Chain Triglycerides (MCTs), which travel directly to the liver where they're used for energy and not stored as fat.

-- My family owned a chain of stores called «Sabrina Shops».

Another consignment store chain I've been hearing about is called The Clothes Mentor — have you heard of them?

In 1984, Yanai became president of his father's clothing chain (which comprised 22 stores) and opened a new store in Hiroshima called the Unique Clothing Warehouse, later shortened to Uniqlo.

He consumed the films of John Sayles and Spike Lee on a 19 - inch television screen and began his career running a chain of video stores in Phoenix called Arizona Video Cassettes West.

Starring Luke Wilson, Kill the Man is an exceedingly silly little comedy about a pair of copy shop owners who decide to take on the large chain store across the street (it's called King Co...

Joel (Paul Rudd) is a corporate executive for Candy Systems and Research, a mega candy store chain, and Molly (Amy Poehler) is the owner of a small sweet shop called Upper Sweet Side.

The Bassara was exclusive to Japanese Nissan dealerships called Nissan Prince Store locations, and discontinued when Nissan combined their five Japanese dealership networks into two sales chains, and Prince locations were renamed Nissan Red Stage.

The first form is the chains of stores called «discount stores» that take remainders from publishers, or buy cheap books published directly into the discount sales channels.

Four days after Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) launched the French Kindle and accompanying Kindle store, rival e-book company Kobo announced that it's partnering with French bookstore chain FNAC to create what it is calling France's largest e-bookstore.

Although there's a trend, even in big box stores, towards empowering salespeople to call more shots, you're probably better off working your way up the food chain.

γ They may make use of so - called «golden bodies,» recent immigrants intending to return home after short stays in the United States with excellent credit who open store credit card accounts at department stores and at home improvement, electronics, and other specialty chains.

Due to the current success of the Pet Express chain, there are plans to develop a fifth store called Healthy Pet.

Since that initial call in October 2013, the chain has converted four locations entirely to adoptable pets, even providing full kennel facilities so the animals actually live in the store, which helps free up space at participating shelters and rescue groups.

One of the most egregious offenders in this scenario, in my opinion, was a chain of stores in Los Angeles and surrounding areas called Barkworks.

You can sign up on - line on the store's web If you want a key tag for your key chain, just call the Rescue or e-mail us at [email protected] and we'll be glad to send as many as you need.

After graduating, she took a job at a national pet store chain as a dog trainer, and found her calling.

What do you a call a successful independent pet store chain that has made a mission of elevating its peers in the industry?

ith online, big box and chain stores grabbing a significant percentage of the retail aquatic pet market, there is precious little left for small, independent stores to call their own.

If I'm not mistaken, we found a copy at a now - defunct discount chain store called Sky City.

Gates's directions for an impromptu sermon encourage you to «open your heart» and «feel something», but it's a tough call in the soulless surroundings of one of Britain's first «US - style» shopping malls, especially for an arty crowd anyway disdainful of bland chain - stores.

This means Bulk can not be called a «plastic - free» store, but Caldironi said that's not the point: «Our goal is to shorten the supply chain in order to reduce the overall amount of plastic.»

A British supermarket chain called Co-op Food has announced that all of its store - brand bottles of water will soon be packaged in 50 percent recycled plastic.

Alongside its other energy efficiency offerings, the company's demand response formula (DemandSMART) entails working with businesses and institutions (a supermarket chain, for example, or a university or manufacturing plant) to establish how they could cut power consumption if called upon to do so (up to, say, 50 fewer hours per year)-- for example by switching off the power supply to a cold store (which can maintain safe temperatures for hours without being boosted), or by cutting a percentage of lighting, or delaying a power - hungry process until later.

A transaction is the transfer, and not only a copy, of a certain amount of units from A to B. Each transaction is validated by a defined minimum number of computers, called nodes, and stored in an identical and chronological order by all nodes of the network with multiple stored transactions building a block on the chain of computers.