Clark, 50, opened her business in 1997 with a single store in the Saint Louis Galleria mall.
Abt Electronics is a single store in the suburbs of Chicago that sells home electronics and appliances.
Gucci started as a single store in Florence, opened in 1921 by Guccio Gucci, who had developed an eye for luxury while working as a bellboy at the Savoy Hotel in London before the first world war.
But in recent years, as online companies without a single physical store have risen to prominence, something new has occurred.
And, instead of being linked to a single online store, like Amazon, it uses a "mall" concept, designed to allow users to choose from many different online stores, though only two are available now.
Instead of purchasing e-books through a single online store to read only on compatible software (i.e. books bought from the Kindle Store can only be read on Kindle apps), Google lets consumers buy books either from its store or any other online vendor that sells books in EPUB and PDF formats, and read them on any device with a web browser.
The company also saw a mid single-digit comp store sales decline in mobile computing due to a fall off notebook computer sales, in part reflecting a pick-up in tablet computer sales.
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Every memory chip relies on a single building block to store data.
Rather, the rapid rise of mobile shopping and location-based services have set the stage for a new kind of shopping experience, one that blends online, in-store and mobile into a single, fluid system that finally allows consumers to get what they want, for the price they want, when they want it.
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MasterCard's MasterPass is one of a growing number of applications analysts have dubbed "digital wallets" that allow consumers to store multiple accounts in a single program.
Jere Thompson Jr. had the experience of watching his father and uncle drive the family's 7-Eleven empire -- a worldwide convenience-store chain that his grandfather started with a single Dallas icehouse in 1927 -- into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1990.
It has ventured a long way from the single classy store that Horace Saks and Bernard Gimbel opened in 1924.
Joel Kotkin, of Pepperdine University, points out that today not a single major bank, department-store chain or telecoms company calls the nation's second-largest city its home.
Apple derives a single-digit proportion of group revenues directly from App Store downloads, but the store is a key symbol for the financial health of its iOS ecosystem.
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Or the fact that a single, massive brick-and-mortar store uses up large energy resources on its own.
Yet with all this newness and buzz, what sets truly innovative marketers apart is a single, counterintuitive insight: The in-store shopping experience matters now, more than ever.
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Its storage potential is enormous: Dr Sheats says that initially, a single layer of memory the size of a sheet of writing paper will be able to store one billion bytes (a gigabyte) of data.
While FINRA has historically played a key role in combating insider trading, the SEC recently unveiled plans to develop a centralized database that would store information on every single trade order, execution, and cancellation across across numerous equity and options trading markets.
Now, imagine every single device in the store was hooked to a ubiquitous, high-speed wireless network.
Manjunath, who runs a tiny kirana store selling boiled sweets, soap and single eggs, sees two ways to profit.
The memory card can record up to 96 hours of HD video, store up to 60, 000 photos in a single session and provide up to 50, 000 hours of music.
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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.
The Chrome Web Store is designed to address that problem, providing a single place for users to see reviews and feedback to help them find quality apps.
As we break down the shipment from tens of thousands of units, to a truckload, then a pallet load, finally to the one single item sitting on the store shelf.
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This makes it possible to record approximately 12 hours of terrestrial digital TV broadcasts or approximately 8.6 hoursof BS digital TV broadcasts in DR mode (recorded with the image quality exactly as broadcast), or store other long-duration video content, all on a single disc, while preserving the same high-definition image quality of the original.
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So if you want to open a couple of new cards, be choosy, selecting major credit cards over single-store cards, and apply three or six months apart.
The Xbox Music Store is a comprehensive MP3 marketplace giving you the opportunity to purchase a single track or entire album on your Windows 8 tablet or PC and Windows Phone 8.
The size of the game terrain would normally be limited by available system resources, since just the contours of a single map can weigh up to 128MB -- too burdensome for most systems to store, process and display in real-time.
With only a high school and trade school education, he parlayed a pair of early inventions into seed money for a company based upon a single idea:that amorphous and disordered materials could be better and cheaper than structured, crystalline ones to create and store energy and information.
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