Sentences with phrase «store chains like»

Supported establishments range from large store chains like Costco, Target, and Walgreens, to more specialized stores like Toys» R» Us, The Vitamin Shoppe, and PetSmart.

The public appears to be demanding buffalo meat, and it's possible to find cuts of bison in upscale store chains like Whole Foods.

Major grocery store chains like Whole Foods and Wild Oats only sell natural, un-enhanced, antibiotic - free pork at their meat counters.

«Consider the case of Nordstrom,... the swanky department store chain I like so much with a story that's reaching soap opera levels of melodrama,» Cramer said on Wednesday.

Perhaps that's why I am not surprised that a store chain like Barnes & Noble is finding the going tough, especially against digital - focused retailers like Amazon.

Not exact matches

Those will include things like investing in faster check - out for customers, flexible scheduling and competitive wages for store workers, turning over merchandise more quickly to keep things fresh and making its supply chain even more efficient.

A company that became a national phenomenon with retail alchemy — a rare ability to attract millions with hip designer items at clear - out prices — has seen that delicate formula stifled by excessive caution and a strangling bureaucracy, even as competitors emulated Target's approach, and fast - fashion retailers like H&M, off - price chains such as T.J. Maxx, and dollar stores all muscled onto its turf.

And the federation can effectively negotiate favourable prices with powerful buyers like grocery store chains.

UPS told Reuters it is now eyeing the furniture delivery business — one of the fastest - growing segments of online retail — with Amazon, Wayfair and other e-commerce companies competing for market share against chains like Crate and Barrel and big - box stores.

Hardware stores were next, with chain operations like True Value eager to have a service that would give their members cash to maintain their inventory without burdening their suppliers.

The convenience landscape in the United States today looks like Canada's did back in 1990: dotted with regional chains numbering between 50 and 300 stores, some larger networks owned by Big Oil, and industry leader 7 - Eleven.

But with this recent announcement, which also includes closing one Evolution Fresh juice store, it looks like the biggest coffee chain spread itself too thin and is now taking a step back.

«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.

Not yet profitable, it is deploying the $ 95 million it raised earlier from investors like Danny Meyer and Steve Case to build powerful systems for siting and planting new stores, forging supple regional supply chains, and developing technology for mobile ordering and cashless transactions, with which it is experimenting.

Pashak's first line of retailers is specialty bike shops, but ideally he'd also sell through a high - end «lifestyle» chain like Restoration Hardware or even a big - box store that could handle the volume he anticipates.

Of course, electronics are the cornerstone of promotional events like Black Friday but just as was the case with department store chains Kohl's (kss), Macy's (m), and J.C. Penney (jcp), which all reported strong Black Friday business too but weak overall Christmas sales, Target shoppers held back outside of that period.

The chain has shrunk space at some stores and sold others back to mall developers like General Growth.

While supply chain issues like those might sound like dry, prosaic matters, they're key to making sure stores avoid stock - outs and are able to step in to fill in online orders.

Like chain - retail record stores before it, video game retail's days are numbered and its demise will come at the hands of the same killer: the Internet.

Weston said customers will soon be able to buy Joe Fresh accessories and cosmetics inside the drugstore chain, but it has no plans to add clothing stores, like the ones found in Loblaw locations.

In the last decade, disruptive chains like Zara and H&M have trained consumers to expect up - to - the - minute trends in stores faster, cheaper, and with greater selection.

The endless rebate signage at key distributors like department store chain Macy's (m), only enforced that problem.

Did they want the feel of a loose network of affiliates, Ã la FTD Florists, or a close - knit chain of stores, like Starbucks Coffee?

But as Sears (whose sister chain Kmart has also closed enormous numbers of stores) exits many malls, it follows that traffic to such centers would slip and inflict collateral damage on competitors like Penney and Macy's.

Companies that have made such agreements, like the world's No. 1 retailer Wal - Mart Stores Inc and convenience store chain Kwik Trip, say they expect to uphold the commitments they have made regardless of any policy changes in Washington.

Urban Outfitters acquired a pizzeria chain last year as part of a plan to build complexes that feature a variety of its stores — it also owns Anthropologie and Free People — restaurants, and event spaces for concerts and the like.

Toys «R» Us, a nostalgic favorite even as many shoppers moved to Amazon and huge chains like Walmart, plans to close up to 182 stores after struggling during the holiday season.

The complete abscence of a retail chain of stores like this one leaves a big empty void in this segment of the retail market that can be successfully exploited by someone with the wisdom and foresight to see it for the virtually unlimited ground floor opportunity that it is.

What's more, their products are already available: Beyond Meat products are sold in more than 4,000 stores across the U.S., including chains like Whole Foods and Target; Impossible Foods» burgers are offered in New York City's upscale Momofuku Nishi — and debuted in Los Angeles and San Francisco just last week.

Toys R Us, a nostalgic favorite even as many shoppers moved to Amazon and huge chains like Walmart, plans to close up to 182 stores, or about 20 percent of its U.S. locations.

Amazon has been labeled a job - destroyer, its low prices driving manufacturers, mom - and - pop stores, and retail chains like Borders and Toys «R» Us out of business.

In Britain alone, chains like the electronics store Maplin and the department store BHS have filed for bankruptcy in recent years.

Over time, the company believes it could be a 3,500 store restaurant chain dishing out biscuits in new markets like California and Texas.

The results of traditional retailers like Macy's (NYSE: M) make it clear that there's a downturn in mall - based chains and traditional department stores.

The electronics chain, like a lot of retailers, has been slammed by a still - weak economy and the ongoing migration of consumers from brick - and - mortar stores to shopping online.

That deal could turn many of the chain's stores into one - stop - shop locations for an array of health care needs like blood work and eye or hearing care, in addition to their traditional role of filling prescriptions.

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.

Rather than being valued like a tech company, it turns out that public markets value Blue Apron much the same way they would a typical chain of grocery stores.

«We are always in competition with other companies, not only in the grocery store arena, but also with the national chains of pizzerias, like Pizza Hut or Domino's,» he says.

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.

Medium - chain fatty acids like lauric acid are more easily digestible and more readily burned as energy than stored as fat, relative to long - chain fatty acids found in animal products.

Long - chain fatty acids such as those found in the polyunsaturated oils typically used for cooking (like corn, canola, soy and sunflower oils) are more difficult for the body to break down and use for energy, so they are usually stored as fat in the body.

Headquartered in Danville, VA, Sky Valley Foods products are available nationwide at independent and natural food chains like Whole Foods Market, Sprouts Farmers Market, Earth Fare, Fresh Market, and at retail grocery stores including Kroger, Target, Publix and many more.

And the Finnish - owned Stockmann department store chain in the Baltics advertises its gourmet delicatessens with a huge sign showing a pretty woman wearing a strapless green evening dress and green stilettos, erotically embracing a long green pepper, taller than she is, while several other huge green peppers lurk like voyeurs on the sidelines.

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Fast food chains like Pizza Hut already have 1700 stores in China, reaffirming that China has room for more western branded food services and restaurants, Mr Xiao said.

You can typically find them in stores like Whole Foods and independent natural and health food stores, as well as in the natural foods sections of larger chain stores.

Even Chain stores like Target and Whole Foods have there own line of 100 % Organic Honey.

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.

You can find all of these items at a chain craft store like Michael's.