The provision is expected to provide millions of dollars to big-box stores like Walmart.
Kalin rejects that path, noting that big-box stores like Best Buy liquidate their overstock on eBay.
History says that gas hikes always hurt Wal-Mart (and other big-box stores such as Lowe's).
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And it takes a key asset of Best Buy to a well-trafficked discounter when its own big-box stores are undershopped.
You won't find many category killers in Japan, since its Large-Scale Retail Store Law still limits the advance of big-box stores.
Best Buy is carving out prime real estate near the front of its big-box stores to create boutiques operated by Samsung.
Remember to use coupons at big-box stores like Target and Wal-Mart too.
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Kalin rejects that path, noting that big-box stores like Best Buy (nyse: BBY - news - people ) liquidate their overstock on eBay.
Moreover, big-box stores find themselves increasingly hard pressed to compete with online retailers ever since consumers became comfortable with buying big-ticket electronic products via the Internet (think Amazon).
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But residents said the advent of big-box stores and malls crippled local businesses in the hamlet, and the loss of factory jobs on Long Island contributed to its decline since then.
The big-box stores are backing a coalition called the Alliance for Main Street Fairness, which is leading efforts to change sales-tax laws in more than a dozen states including Texas and California.
It also has become a symbol of our present cultural divide, its shoppers derided on websites, its big-box stores accused of having killed small-town Main Streets, its efficiency and pricing studied by academics.
Since being tasked by Chief Executive Hubert Joly with turning around the big-box stores in November, Mr. Score has been applying lessons he learned running Best Buy's small Best Buy Mobile outlets to the company's flagship stores.
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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The price that the buyers have offered for the discount retailer, which competes with other club-membership stores like Costco as well as big-box stores like Wal-Mart to bring in loyal customers with lower passed-through product costs, is fair, say some analysts.
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Maybe the free market will correct for the wages too since the big-box stores eventually also have to sell the items to the very people they employ, but the bigger risk is the transfer of control from many to a select few, which leads to its own risks in terms of productivity and wealth creation.
From a technology perspective, I'm curious about how this struck you because a lot of stores - big box stores, for example - encourage customers to price compare and they say, we'll match or beat whatever price you see elsewhere.
The practice took off during the real-estate boom of the 2000s, as developers flush with cash, working with investment-hungry town governments, turned so-called underutilized properties into big-box retail stores and in many cases upscale residential-commercial developments.
It declined as big-box discount stores opened nearby and a series of gang-related shootings scared away customers.
Apps such as Key Ring and CardStar let you store the information for grocery stores, pharmacies, big-box retailers and other stores.
Big box stores like Wal-Mart Stores and Best Buy hold considerable sway with vendors.
Around 5-10 big box stores are expected to be closed this year in addition to 49 stores shut down last year.
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The main reason is because these high end shops, don't always carry the same brands as the big box stores -- for business reasons -- and these brands like Denon, Marantz, and Onkyo don't make players (yet) for either format.
Merrill Lynch is already predicting a lackluster season for big-box discounters Wal-Mart Stores and Target, whose sheer size makes it difficult to drive year-over-year sales.
" "But in the absence of cool, edgy initiatives like this one, " observes Barasch, "what's left to move in is 7-11 and big box stores.
In turn, expanding big-box retailers such as Ross Stores Inc.
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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.
Merrill Lynch is already predicting a lackluster season for big-box discounters Wal-Mart Stores (nyse: WMT - news - people ) and Target (nyse: TGT - news - people ), whose sheer size makes it difficult to drive year-over-year sales.
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