The most promising one is a new store format that folds watches into the sunglass stores.
Morningstar analyst Anthony Chukumba, otherwise a Home Depot bull, notes Lowe's still has a superior store format.
They take a year to develop a new store format, reconfigure a layout or commission a logo.
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He has cut the retailer's reliance on sales and is rolling out a new store format with fancier brands.
Johnson has been talking up the new store format, but better to visit and have a look for oneself.
Others that began as e-tailers-only are beginning to move into physical retailing, albeit in a lighter weight pop-up store format.
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The analyst expects that the new store format, tested over the past year in a handful of cities, will expand further this year.
And it plans to launch a new store format that will prominently feature home broadband and mobile broadband service offerings along with Internet-ready TVs.
These are modeled after Walmex's bare-bones, cut-price Bodega Aurrera store format.
So far, no large Indian supermarket chain has managed to replicate the convenience-store format successfully, because it's tough to offer goods on credit, personalize the service and stay profitable.
The 49 stores being purchased for an undisclosed payment are of strategic value to Morrisons which has lagged other supermarkets in creating a convenience-store format, as well as a home delivery service.
One retailer, a major European supermarket chain, tried and failed three times to launch a small-format store.
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Sony said it would have its store converted to the format by the end of 2009.
CouchDB and MongoDB both store documents in JSON format, where JSON is a format originally designed for representing JavaScript objects, but now available in many languages.
Additionally, the D3100 is compatible with the new SDXC memory card format to store large amounts of photo and video data so users can shoot multiple scenes without interruption.
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It is essential that he continues on his quest for a new format for the department store industry.
If either format is used to store and play back live HD content, it will have to be 1920x1080i (interlaced again) to be compatible with the bulk of consumer TVs.
The Kindle Store facilitates impulse subscriptions, locks readers to a single seller, and shuts competitors clean out of the process. (In this respect Amazon appears to have learned well the lessons of its sometime rival Apple and its market-dominating iTunes Store.) The larger-format Kindle Amazon will reportedly introduce this week only seems likely to accelerate that process.
Wal-Mart opened a new store in Chicago this week, a small format called Express developed to fit urban areas and gain a foothold in new markets.
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Saturday, April 16 is Record Store Day, an official celebration of the musical format and the small, typically privately owned shops that sell them.
If it is unable to either shift from the big-box retail format to smaller stores, or optimize store space by sub-leasing to other businesses, operating costs will not come down.
One retailer, Sears Holdings, made the list for its combined earnings as a holding company for large-format retailer (Kmart) and a department store (Sears).
Good thing Amazon's store is chock full of easily zoomable books in a proprietary format then, huh?
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In another strong example of Microsoft's continued " investment" in PlaysForSure, it's pulling out of MSN Music, the big M's very own store for selling the not-completely-dead-yet music format.
"Right now the future is looking kind of cloudy, " said a sales representative at a San Francisco Bay Area Circuit City when asked about the HD DVD format on President's Day, despite a pitch for the format blaring from a big-screen television on the other side of the store.
"Right now the future is looking kind of cloudy, " said a sales representative at a San Francisco Bay Area Circuit City (nyse: CC - news - people ) when asked about the HD DVD format on President's Day, despite a pitch for the format blaring from a big-screen television on the other side of the store.
Sony has also said it will adopt the open EPub format in a move that allows consumers to purchase or download books from the Sony store and read them on any EPub-compatible device.
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