Since opening its first American store in 1985, the low-cost furniture seller now counts 38 stores and has become the second biggest home furnishing company in the US, behind Ashley Furniture.
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In July they opened their first North American retail store, and a very Apple-like experience, in Vancouver, Canada.
In July they opened their first North American retail store, in Canada.
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On July 31, the company reported that its North American comparable store sales increased just 1.7% in the fourth fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2012.
Other people are praying you'll deliver Microsoft 's Xbox 360, Apple Computer 's iPod nano, or a doll and outfit from the American Girl store.
Target had positioned itself as the family friendly, all-American department store.
Add an eye-watering price tag, and accessorise with photogenic sales staff - so photogenic their job title is "model" - and you have the look of the much talked about American clothes store Abercrombie and Fitch.
Since the fine fragrance industry as a whole has taken a beating during the recession (the NPD Group says American department store sales have been down 15% from 2007 to 2009), some companies are even playing with their distribution models.
"I actually started paying attention because Obama was a black man running, but once I started listening, he started making sense to me, and I decided to get out there and vote, " said Michael Fogle, an African-American grocery store stocker and father of five from Lexington, Kentucky.
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Coach is growing in the U.S., Mr. Frankfort said, with North American comparable-store sales rising 12.6%.
Dayton Hudson, an American department-store chain, discovered that 2.5% of its customers bought 75% of its goods.
Citi is already the biggest issuer of bank credit cards, and this deal will also make it the largest North American issuer of store-branded cards.
Additionally, a disappointing performance in the North American retail channel with an 8.5% drop in its quarterly North American same-store sales also added to the investor concerns.
And with a few exceptions, such as the 250-store clothing chain American Apparel Inc.
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If HSBC adopts an American revenue model for its store credit cards, it may find its dominance in that area an advantage.
Their candidates are now able to assail Mr Bush for damaging American diplomacy, and its store of global goodwill, without seeming weak on Saddam Hussein, and without undermining the support they will give to American soldiers if and when fighting starts.
American Express also provides in-store and online promotional materials for business owners.
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To celebrate the opening, Vacheron is hosting a month-long American Heritage event at its new store, on Madison Avenue and 64th Street. (The store is the latest entry in what is becoming a veritable row-house of watchmaker shops along the avenue.) The Heritage event will put on public display notable historical watches and acquisition narratives from their owners.
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In the beginning, FAGE yogurt was selling at my store only, to Greek American customers.
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Earlier this year an American tourist blogged about a fake Apple store in China's southern Yunnan province.
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Wouldn't an American peace initiative then merely add to the store of bitterness by raising false expectations?
Its acquisition of American Stores, which more than doubled its store count to 2, 600, resulted in financial indigestion.
The first round of Woolworths closures comes nearly 100 years after American F W Woolworth opened his first UK store in Liverpool.
Like Kenney's hardware store, Sue Stein's American craft gallery, also in Brookline, is not seeing any major shifts in her business, yet.
Notably, the store accepts Visa, Mastercard and American Express.
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Americans who have rushed to embrace mediocre California Merlots in the hopes of finding a soft, juicy wine with aromatic fruit would seemingly mob a store for Grenache, but the American wines aren't there to introduce them to it.
Alongside early openings have been strong store promotions at retailers like Abercrombie, American Eagle and Gap.
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