Sentences with phrase «store chain seemed»

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«There is just less fear from people who feel like they might lose their jobs... Our shoppers seem more confident than they did a year ago,» said Reed, 63, whose chain of four stores clocked a roughly 10 percent jump in sales from Thanksgiving to this week, compared to the year before.

Anecdotes found online at first seem unbelievable: floor staff cheerfully accepting unabashedly damaged returns, no questions asked; Nordstrom employees helping mall shoppers carry purchases from other stores to their cars; and an often - repeated tale about a customer in Anchorage, Alaska, who returned a set of tires to a Nordstrom location — despite the fact that the chain doesn't actually sell tires.

To Adam Sah, co-founder and CEO of Best Friend Wholesale & Mercantile, a San Francisco - based specialty grocery store chain, offering the digital currency bitcoin as an alternative payment solution for customers seemed like a no - brainer.

On the surface, the idea might seem promising — because Lightning payments occur «off - chain,» the information isn't included in the blockchain that all nodes store.

While the kits continue to see expansion at big chains like Kroger and Publix, which plan to launch them nationwide this year, the challenge seems to be with smaller convenience stores that can't quite make the numbers work.

Choosing food that's better for your health and better for the environment seems like a no - brainer, except organic food costs more — as much as 50 percent more — and there isn't always a wide selection at grocery chains, making it hard to find what you need without having to visit several stores.

The drug store chain will also reach out to doctors about prescriptions that seem to be excessive, and put a cap on daily dosages.

Oil may not seem like a natural choice for a smoothie ingredient, but a tablespoon of the stuff can give you an energy boost — the body uses its medium - chain fatty acids as an energy source instead of storing it away.

Forever 21 is a clothing chain store that is really popular in the US and Canada, and seems to market itself towards teens and young women looking for the latest trends at very affordable prices.

When Borders, then the nation's second - largest bookstore chain, went bankrupt and liquidated all its stores in 2011, it seemed as if it could be good news for Barnes & Noble, which would have a chance to grab former Borders customers.

And the latest casualty seems to the number one book store chain in the United States, Barnes & Noble.

Lauren Charles [00:08:01] Again, in a lot of ways it seems harder to approach a Barnes and Noble, obviously because they're corporate and they're large, really any chain store, BAM (Books - a-Million), Walmart, Target, whoever you're trying to get into.

In light of the loss of the entire Border's chain, a loss that many felt could be blamed in no small part on the retailer's failure to keep up with a changing bookselling market concept, the newly restyled Indigo stores might seem like a smart move.

It doesn't seem like too much of a stretch to surmise that print books are on their way to becoming a niche market where smaller stores capable of catering to local tastes can survive; even thrive, but big chains can't be sustained.

Our national chains (Chapters, Indigo and Coles) seem to be doing okay from the look of their well stocked stores but I notice they are now selling a lot more stuff that is only tangentially book related.

Specialty herptile stores are now not only reasonably common, but it seems every major full - line independent and chain pet store has at least some form of live - herp display.

«All processed pet foods — whether sold in cans, bags, or frozen packages, in either giant supermarket chains or local health food stores — are missing something that seems to me to be one of the most important «nutrients» of all.

It seems that nobody, including Johnson himself, ever took a moment to openly question his strategies, even when he decided to roll out significant changes with little or no testing with the chain's customers and store staff.

Store - level workers seem to stick around a bit longer than at other chains, probably because of a combination of great work environment and a commitment by these workers to the pet category.

Having failed at reinventing the company, Sears» top executives seem to be accelerating the chain's switch from a retail operation to one that focuses on the value of the land its stores are operated on.

It seemed a perfect fit: Moore has a book to promote (he told the crowd at the bookstore last night that he had no interest in doing signings at big chain stores), and St. Mark's Bookshop is itself in trouble, and has asked its landlord, Cooper Union, the private engineering, architecture and art college, to reduce its $ 20,000 monthly rent (with backup from a local petition and a community board resolution).

It might seem weird that shoppers can now buy a smart speaker in addition to organic vegetables, but Amazon wants Alexa everywhere, even at its newly acquired chain of grocery stores.

With rumors swirling that crafts retailer Michael Stores Inc. might be getting ready to file for an IPO, this seems like an opportune moment to talk about what's involved in going from a privately held chain to a publicly - traded company.

When upscale grocery chain Whole Foods broke ground for its first store in Detroit this May, the move may have seemed like an aberration.

But it seems that no sooner than the chain opened its first store in Toronto than it has already managed to turn off some local shoppers.

Most dollar store chains have been increasing their grocery offerings in the past few years in the hope of stealing shoppers away from supermarkets and the move seems to be paying off.