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"A small retailer trying to save money might go to the site and purchase stock for their stores, " he says.
His firm handles resales through New Era, a small online retailer it owns.
In fact, the small electronic retailer has seen its share price tumble by about one-third in the past two years.
You may recall that in the spring I highlighted the plight of Adcocks, a small electricals retailer in Norfolk, brought to the brink of collapse after it bought one of the notorious structured collars from Barclays.
Britain's budget airline Easyjet was angered by the recent decision to leave the domain name easy-jet.com with its holder, a small printer cartridge retailer.
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One small-cap retailer that serves a big niche, or perhaps more accurately a niche of the big and tall, has been absolutely ablaze of late.
Alibaba.com, a giant Chinese online retailer for small business, is working on a plan to create a large number online businesses in the U.S., its chief executive says.
The retailer is squashing small businesses and, thus, the small-town life the magazine champions.
When an organised retailer opens nearby, small retailers typically lose about 23% of their sales in the first year, the report finds.
Ask any retailer, large or small, hotel owner, restaurant owner, convenience store owner, gas station, ask them what bargaining power they have when it comes to the amount they are charged for the use of a debit card, and the answer is, none.
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Granted, customers may be worried by the idea of the marauding megacorp clouding the vision of the small--but pious--retailer.
If a retailer could capture even a small percentage of the market, this group, the sales (and hopefully profits) would increase.
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Wal-Mart may improve its sales by offering free shipping, but if there is no minimum purchase amount, small value purchases could lead to the retailer bearing higher expenses relative to sales.
At one extreme are companies such as Zappos, the online shoe retailer, that obsess about keeping even small-ticket, occasional customers lastingly happy with their purchases.
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In Japan Wal-Mart also decided to take a small bite first, buying a 6% stake in retailer Seiyu in early 2002, then upping it to 34% later in the year.
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But music industry sources have confirmed to the BBC that in an effort to save the retailer from going under, suppliers both big and small have been providing it with stock on far more generous terms than were being extended to its independent counterparts.
This is the latest in a fast growing group of cool, modern, vibrant, relatively small stores co- branded JCP and Joe Fresh, the successful Canadian retailer.
The new-economy theorist Richard Florida once praised the innovative practices of Best Buy, the electronics retailer, by noting that, after a sales associate made a small but effective improvement to a display rack, the corporation implemented the change nationwide.
One retailer, a major European supermarket chain, tried and failed three times to launch a small-format store.
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In the meantime, Wal-Mart has announced that it will open its first consumer store in the next 12-18 months and the Future Group, a local retailer in India has declared plans to create a franchise network that will allow hundreds of the small kirana shop owners compete with the big guys.
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Whirlpool disclosed a sales and distribution alliance with Chinese retailer Suning in an effort by the world's largest maker of home appliances to increase its small share of the market in China.
Redbox sees "millions of small dollar amount transactions, and interchange fees represent a larger percentage of card processing costs compared to a typical retailer, " making it "relatively more susceptible to any fee increase, " the filing said.
Amazon.com, apart from being a major online retailer of books, DVDs, music, games, apparel, and other merchandise, also has a small business of providing cloud and other Web services.
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And since only a small fraction of the mark-up on Fairtrade foods actually goes to the farmer most goes to the retailer the system gives rich consumers an inflated impression of their largesse and makes alleviating poverty seem too easy.
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