The store is a cash-and-carry operation that sells to hotels, restaurants, small stores and other institutions.
Thousands of small stores and state-owned companies in China make pencils, rulers and staples.
Most of the confusion seems to arise at small stores, where consumers grab single-serve cans from coolers.
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India's millions of small stores, of course, are terrified of the onslaught from domestic and foreign retailers.
Rothman also started running training sessions for his 325 small stores, many in rural, blue-collar towns like Secaucus, N.
Jetro enjoys a near monopoly in supplying wholesale goods to small stores and restaurants in the New York City area.
Stopping in at small stores, he witnesses product placement firsthand and seeks to understand the cultural context in which people buy WD-40 products.
The bus station, like the neighborhood around it, is full of small stores that sell everything from new flatscreen TVs to cheap Chinese underwear.
Surprisingly, the commission also found evidence that supermarkets don't seem to hurt small stores as much as was previously thought, and perhaps not at all.
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.
His customers are businesses nearby, primarily restaurants and small stores.
The relatively small stores are located in what the company calls "neighborhood" locations, which will save shoppers money on gas that they inevitably spend on trips to larger grocery stores.
Kirsh told FORBES that Jetro has a near monopoly on the business of providing small stores in the New York City area -- other wholesalers don't deem them worth the time.
The company is finding that when it comes to drawing customers these days, small stores with limited selection are no match for big, brightly lit emporiums with the latest name brands.
The bulk of his current fortune comes from Jetro Holdings, which operates Jetro Cash and Carry stores and Restaurant Depots in the New York City area -- supplying wholesale goods to bodegas, small stores and restaurants.
Mike Mikan, said in an email to company employees that he intends to continue the turnaround plan, which involves remodeling some big-box stores in San Antonio and Minneapolis, closing others, and adding more small stores focused on mobile phones.
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But the steady flow of coal and commerce does not stop in Broken Bow, where small stores in the center of town may be showing some improved signs of economic life, but making ends meet on the land gets harder every year.
Although Loree was the only store on her block participating, she was helped by public officials who very publicly shopped at small stores and by her business community, which enlivened the shopping areas with guitar players and teenagers to help carry packages.
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Among other innovations, it set up Tesco Express, combining convenience stores and petrol retailing, Tesco Metro, the small, urban stores and a small number of much larger stores on the hypermarket model including its flagship Tesco Kensington store.
" Sold in shopping malls and discount stores and not just small computer stores -- the norm for the time -- the C64 became many people's gateway into the world of computers, said Brian Bagnall, author of "On the edge: The spectacular rise and fall of Commodore.
Not only have most of the small book stores disappeared, but huge chains like B.
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You can now find Borealis products in 2, 300 small grocery stores and bars as far south as Miami.
You can now find Borealis products in 2, 300 small grocery stores and bars as far south as Miami, Florida.
Big Orange has demolished once-thriving chains, not to mention countless small hardware stores.
Until recently you could find Halo, Purely for Pets--her line of vittles and pet-care products--only at health food or small pet stores.
Until services began expanding in the past few years, women in southern Nigeria tended to pay for their contraception at small drug stores.
From neighbors and small grocery stores word spread of Niman's tasty, naturally raised meat to chefs like Chez Panisse's Alice Waters, the doyenne of California cuisine.
Although Super Blue Stuff is sold in 365 small independent stores and through a 200-person direct-sales force, a majority of its sales come over the toll-free line McClung broadcasts on his infomercials.
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