There was a sort of murmur of both recognition and despair as the fags man projected forward to a future at the check-out where customers have a quota of alcohol purchases, flashing up when compulsory electronic payment is made, beyond which the off-sales shop has to turn them away.
Mohammed loves to stop by garage sales and shop for bargains.
Shop sales dipped in the final quarter of 2012 but grew over the year as a whole, according to figures released by the Scottish government.
And average ticket and comparable shop sales are improving, he noted.
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Ms Davidson-Olley, a shop sales advisor, regularly takes part in the World Transplant Games and has spent her life campaigning to get more people on the organ donor list.
The club is about golf and generously donates the surplus it makes from television, ticket and gift shop sales to worthy organizations such as The First Tee, which uses golf to teach values to kids.
The Joint Private Cloud initiative would provide pre-integrated solutions based on joint technology development, and will be a one-stop-shop for sales and support.
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The LeapFrog report also found that 64 percent of women who plan to shop look for sales and compare prices online.
In front of a newly-opened phone shop, the sales assistant flashed an iPhone to the Foxconn employees, with everyone focused on his every "cool" gesture, as if it was something new.
He passed all the course units before briefly getting a job as a customer sales adviser with a small computing shop five miles away in Alloa.
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The respondents, which tended to be bigger retailers, are responsible for 37% of Britain's retail sales and employ 29% of the shop workers.
When a major bridge that connects Kentucky and Indiana was recently closed for safety reasons, one small business owner whose shop is nearby watched his sales fall 40 percent in just two weeks.
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Litsa Grigoropoulos, a sales assistant at Sephora's smaller downtown shop in Manhattan's Soho district, used to work at Macy's (part of Federated Department Stores).
Earlier this month, the company reported a sharp fall in sales for the Christmas period, with like-for-like sales, which strip out the effect of shop closures, down by 8.1% in the five weeks to the end of December.
Its statement comes a day after Top Shop boss Sir Philip Green reported falling sales and profit margins.
Doherty's shop, with its on-screen sales come-on and central switches, stands as good a chance of scaling profitably as any.
Riffel said business at his coffee shop was flat last summer, but sales are up 10 percent for the first quarter of 2009.
This new legislation is considered a way to level the playing field, since physical shop fronts are required to collect state sales tax for the state where they are located.
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The setting up of a 'web shop' comes after a worrying slump in sales.
She thinks her shop will survive after a bumper summer of sales, as her customers stock up on house and garden accessories.
Also, while some businesses closed Friday, others notably retailers and travel companies expected to enjoy unusually robust sales as consumers took advantage of the day off to shop.
His father Kapil Bhatia started modestly as a sales manager in a travel agency then established his own shop catering to the North Indian market.
The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust rely on sales of Antarctic stamps and gifts from the Port Lockroy shop to fund up to half of their heritage work each summer.
If 10% of retail sales are now being done without the need for a shop front the fact that some 10% of shop fronts are not needed seems not all that surprising.
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Dimitrios Kalkantzakos, who runs a gun shop near Athens's City Hall, said sales in recent months are 60% ahead of last year's pace.
Mr. Ruiz said their main gauges for measuring the program's success are store sales and improvement in the lives and self-confidence of shop owners.
But the LePhone competes on the same China Unicom shop shelf space as the Apple iPhone, and sales for both smartphones have not taken off due to consumers shunning China Unicom for a restrictive two-year 3G contracts and perceived better network coverage by larger China Mobile.
Margin Deterioration: Generally, a flower shop's payroll should eat up 30% of sales, and the cost-of-goods-sold another 30%-33%.
This is why, if the MFA was following the normal logic of a sales tax, it should be based on the location of the shop.
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