In traditional retail, the closest example of this kind of effort is at independent running stores where customers come together to form running clubs and train for races.
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Contrary to what many of the people who attend Comic-Con probably believe, robots will not be running these stores or our society.
Gray reasoned that Carmax, with nine years of experience running its stores and a record of solid profitability, ought to be the leader in this emerging business.
In addition to keeping distribution costs for the company relatively low in large markets, this model makes it possible to open sales channels in small to mid-sized markets where the costs of opening and running physical stores may not be economically justified.
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Mind you big box stores are still labour intensive, the only difference is, instead of a lot of people owning and running their own stores one entity owns and runs the place with low-skilled labour from the pool of people who have been run out of business.
High infrastructure costs that make it expensive to merge store and online programs have too many stores running their in-store and Web promotions separately, experts say.
Shoppers are increasing turning to the budget sector but even discount stores are running into trouble, analysts said.
Local media reported that stores were running out of Falcons merchandise.
Running all of these stores are owners and managers still required to go to Hamburger University either in Oak Brook or one of four overseas campuses.
Running all of these stores are owners and managers still very much required to go to Hamburger University either in Oak Brook or one of four overseas campuses.
Foot Locker (FL): We noted some promotional activity in running footwear in Foot Locker stores.
He was a successful businessman with 100, 000 employees, running breweries, hotels and stores.
Figuring that there was more money in leasing stores than in running them, they shut down their garment shops.
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He is running low on all his stores and has very little fuel left, so that listening to the radio or making telephone calls to pass the time is not an option during the long hot days at sea.
Rothman also started running training sessions for his 325 small stores, many in rural, blue-collar towns like Secaucus, N.
In Houston, where there are now 14 stores, the company is running its first TV commercials zoned to middle- and upper-income cable customers.
Since being tasked by Chief Executive Hubert Joly with turning around the big-box stores in November, Mr. Score has been applying lessons he learned running Best Buy's small Best Buy Mobile outlets to the company's flagship stores.
In 1993 Home Depot caught General Electric running down its lightbulb inventories, causing shortages at hundreds of stores.
Atlantic Ave, running east to west near Brooklyn Heights, is sprinkled with antique stores, restaurants and boutiques, plus Arabic perfumeries, butchers and bookshops.
And so today, more than half the stores that were damaged on the Range Line are up and running again.
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This check-in payment service, a process Dorsey compares to creating a running tab at a bar, launched with 50 coffee shops and other stores in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington and St.
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The company announced Monday morning that it had sold more than 2 million units in the first weekend in the country, running counter to reports and video footage that showed uncharacteristically short lines of people waiting outside Apple stores to pick up the new phone.
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