Sentences with phrase «year than store»

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Best Buy Co. said comparable store sales dipped 0.8 per cent for the nine weeks ended Jan. 4, but that was better than the 1.7 per cent decline in the prior - year period.

In 2015, less than a year after retiring as CEO of convenience store giant Alimentation Couche - Tard, the executive chairman, along with his three co-founders, put forward a resolution to extend their time - limited voting control — the group holds 22 % of the company's equity — to ward off any future takeover attempts.

And bucking the trend in a retail industry where many rivals are paring their store fleets, Walmart said it plans to open a few more stores: it expect to open fewer than 15 SuperCenters in the U.S. next year, a small uptick to be sure, but additional physical facilities to support its roughly $ 15 billion a year e-commerce business.

Some industry observers predict that retail will change more in the next five years than it has over the past century, and that the extinction of brick - and - mortar stores isn't far off.

Cornell's decisiveness, along with a better - than - expected holiday - season increase in sales at the website and stores open for at least a year, has revived Target's stock: The shares have jumped 30 % under the new CEO, to all - time highs.

More than once in the intervening years, Minhas has faced challenges she describes as anything but fair: regulatory hurdles slowing her products» spread, retail monopolies denying access to their store shelves and larger competitors muscling in on her turf.

Apple now has more stores in China than any other region outside of the U.S. Despite that, China revenue fell to $ 45 billion in the latest fiscal year, down from a record $ 59 billion in 2015 amid greater competition from local phone makers like Huawei Technologies and Xiaomi.

We are incredibly grateful to all of our associates for their dedicated service to Bon - Ton and to our millions of loyal customers who we have had the pleasure to serve as their hometown store for more than 160 years.»

So far, the design seems to be working: Warby Parker, which was founded in 2010 and opened its first retail store three years later, is reportedly valued at over $ 1 billion and will have have more than 70 locations open by year's end.

In business less than a year, Kit and Ace managers can't go back and compare same - store sales or track repeat business.

Rather than look 20 years in the future to see what China holds in store, the world would be wise to cast its gaze back a couple of decades instead.

On Wednesday, JCPenney also reported weak sales at stores open for more than one year.

After two years of wrangling, Walgreens received regulatory approval Tuesday to buy stores from Rite Aid, but the agreement is for fewer stores than had previously been proposed.

Walmart is also closing stores at 6 p.m. on Christmas Eve, two hours earlier than in part years.

This past year, 51 percent of purchases took place online, more than 90 percent of consumers used smartphones while shopping in - store and 78 percent of global shoppers were influenced in some way by social media.

Sutterfield boasts that she hectored Safeway store managers for more than a year before they placed their first $ 50,000 SoapWorks order, in April.

This year, more than 1,000 retail brands, representing 180,000 stores in 330 mainland cities, will participate in Alibaba's event, according to a recent press release.

Under the consent decree, Trader Joe's agreed over the next three years to reduce its leak rate to less than half the average in the grocery store sector, and to use non-ozone depleting refrigerants at all new and heavily remodeled stores.

Mock - up Milk Bones for dogs, almost - Advil medication for headaches, might - be Mars bars for snacks and supposed - to - be SoftSoap for bathrooms: the store sells knockoff products for much cheaper than it sells name brands, earning it a higher profit margin and helping turn Dollarama into a near $ 3 - billion a year company.

«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.

That is still better than a year ago, when sales fell 6.5 percent at its American full - line stores.

Gap said in a statement Thursday that comparable - store sales, or sales at locations open at least one year, fell 6 %, more than the Bloomberg expectation for a 5 % drop.

Sales at stores open for more than a year — a key benchmark for investors — rose 6.3 percent.

The metric is an important measure of longevity because it includes only sales from stores that have been open for more than a year.

J.C. Penney (jcp) will open stores at 2 p.m., an hour earlier than last year, and three earlier than many of its mall - based department store rivals like Macy's.

This year Samsung introduced its new Family Hub Refrigerator designed to do a whole lot more than just store your food.

Disney has closed more than 120 stores in the past two years as it struggled to keep its own merchandise competitive with lower - end retailers.

Thus far, the industry has announced plans to close 6,700 stores this year, more than any other year on record, and there's still two months left in 2017.

Key takeaway: Numerous discount stores have been earning record numbers in recent years, but none do a better job at turning consumers into aspirational customers than Five Below.

There are fewer than two dozen Athleta stores now, but by the end of the year Gap plans to have about 50 (compared to Lululemon's 185 worldwide).

Last quarter it grew 19 percent year over year, faster than any other category, as the App Store logged its highest - ever revenue amid game craze «Pokemon Go.»

When Kip Tindell, CEO of The Container Store, first heard Herb Kelleher's words more than 40 years ago he was, in his own words, «completely taken by it.»

A partnership with credit - card company Discover, announced last year and slated to begin later this year, would allow customers at more than 7 million physical store to make purchases using their PayPal accounts.

Last year's surprising acquisition of Country Style Food Services Holdings, Ontario's second - largest coffee chain, boosted MTY's store count by nearly 50 %, and the most recent addition — Quebec hot - dogs - and - fries specialist Groupe Valentine, a deal that closed earlier this month — has brought the total to more than 1,700 restaurants that ring in about US$ 400 million in annual sales.

Cabela's has struggled with declining sales of apparel and footwear and has reported same - store sales growth in only one quarter in more than three years.

In recent years, PINK has become one of the most successful parts of the company, reporting stronger sales than other parts of the store.

The move comes as Sears tries to bounce back from a five - year stretch during which it lost more than $ 8 billion as it closed hundreds of stores and sales dropped sharply.

Hong Kong retail sales fell 7.7 percent on - year in July, with jewelry and watch sales down more than 26 percent and department store sales falling nearly 7 percent.

The first Amazon Go store opened one month ago to much fanfare, after more than 12 months of hype that only crescendoed as the company delayed the public opening by about a year.

The deal values Kind at more than $ 4 billion, according to people briefed on the transaction, marking a significant valuation for one of the most prominent new food brands to hit store shelves in recent years.

An increasing number of privately - held players are going from garage to grocery store in fewer than five years thanks to an erosion of barriers to entry within the food industry.

It's been more than four years now since the giddily titled book Go Canada: The Coming Boom in the Toronto Stock Market and How to Profit From It hit store shelves, advising its hopeful readers that within a decade the Toronto Stock Exchange would more than double in value to 30,000 points.

But after more than a year and a half of FTC review, the companies concluded the deal would be rejected, despite its offer to divest some 1,200 stores to Fred's in order to ease the regulator's concerns.

Nearly 10 years later, he's proven to be more than capable of running the country's largest grocery - store chain.

The handout came with strings attached: Salus had to sign off if RadioShack wanted to close more than 200 stores a year — essentially giving the firm power over one of the company's only ways to raise cash.

Ten years and more than 345 stores later, Apple has become one of the most admired retailers in the world.

So they pulled out all the stops by experimenting with an in - store cafe, free Wi - Fi, monthly book swaps, a children's play area, entertainment, more than 200 in - store author readings a year and community forums on topics of interest to customers.

But Adam & Eve, which has been selling such products in the U.S. for more than 40 years, brought the adult store out of the shadows in 2009 with the launch of the Adam & Eve store franchise.

«We have seen our online sales grow by more than 50 per cent in the past year and new services, such as in - store reserve and pickup, more than doubling,» said Best Buy Canada president Ron Wilson in a release.

Negroponte argued that, as a consequence of electronic distribution, «videocassette - rental stores will go out of business in less than ten years.»