Combined with prominent red brick chimneys and a brick or stone base, the effect is a three-color scheme.
The latest installment loses the ancient cupolas and marble temples of Renaissance Italy for the cramped, squat cities of wood and brick and the boundless frontier of 18th century America.
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The best part is, once you've made your avatar, its measurements are a part of your Styku account that's accessible on the web and at participating online and brick and mortar merchants.
The walls are of unplastered brick, with the beams and timbers seen in every hand: not a bad color this pale brick and mortar.
From an Internet retailers perspective the passage of the Marketplace Fairness Act would not only add layers of administration and cost to comply, but it could cut into their competitiveness with small businesses and brick-and-mortar retailers.
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Still, Target, and every other brick and mortar retailer for that matter, clearly has to try something.
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Target, and other traditional brick and mortar retailers.
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Amazon is determined to put book publishers out of business and squeeze to death brick and mortar book sellers.
The Main Street Fairness Act being considered by Congress would create a level playing field for both online and traditional brick-and-mortar retailers.
The buildings are made from thousands of tiny gears and springs, not brick and stone, as if Wall emptied a clock and began to build.
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Her firm, Forerunner Ventures, invests in next-generation e-commerce start-ups, and in a reversal of the traditional retail model, many of her new companies start online and eventually move to brick and mortar.
They have also supported related areas of labor, contracting out clay mining in the surrounding area, hauling and trucking 10-20 loads of clay and brick per day, and bringing in contractors for large maintenance projects.
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To do this, retailers must get smarter about how they cater to the consumers that do come through their doors, and this is where brick and mortar purveyors can learn a lot from their online brethren.
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The water barreled through with such force, it knocked Gulfport's town hall off of its foundation, and the walls of some brick and mortar buildings collapsed.
Most people launch mobile boutiques as faster and cheaper alternatives to traditional brick and mortar retail, said Jeanine Romo, who launched Le Fashion Truck with business partner Stacey Steffe in Los Angeles in 2010.
Online retailers are particularly smart at this, and have given many established brick and mortar competitors a hard time with their ability to analyze consumer sentiment, take suitable action, and elicit positive recommendations from their enormous online audience.
They have polished online programs and oftentimes convenient brick-and-mortar locations near freeways with easy access.
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Steinhafel hints at the challenges faced by Target and most other brick-and-mortar chains in the wake of competing e-commerce giants like Amazon.
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So what can Wal-Mart possibly bring to the table.? Wal-Mart, whose brand is all about low, low prices and whose actual brick-and-mortar big boxes are, shall we say, highly functional but not necessarily aesthetically pleasing.
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And so the white widow of a railroad tycoon and a black social worker from Arkansas founded what would become the Urban League, to strengthen our cities and our communities brick by brick, and block by block, and neighborhood by neighborhood, life by life.
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There are about 5 billion mobile phone users in the world, and MasterCard is providing them access to traditional financial services like the ability to transfer funds, pay bills and purchase goods and services at brick-and-mortar stores or through e-commerce websites through a device they already own.
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And this one is a pet peeve of mine, specifically because I work with people that have gone to Phoenix and other places online and knowing what I went through at brick and mortar state school, there is no doubt in my mind that these people DID NOT work nearly as hard or learn and took the classes I had to.
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Mies's large drawings of his crystalline visions of faceted and curved glass skyscrapers of 1921 and 1922 were quickly followed by studies for brick and concrete country houses, prescient and perfect in their assured abstraction.
Virtual workers, including those who are their own business owners, are often more accountable, take on more responsibility, and are more passionate about their work than brick and mortar workers, which enables them to achieve better performance.
Although gaming sales have been volatile this year (total U.S. sales of hardware, games and accessories decreased 14 percent during May in brick and mortar stores, following a strong April and relatively soft March), growth has been, for the most part, consistently strong in digital distribution, handheld device gaming applications, and peripherals.
While the exterior walls are white washed, the inward-facing walls are comprised of panels of various shapes and sizes -- all of them covered with brick and tile work in various patterns.
The growing popularity and convenience of online shopping not only competes with brick and mortar shopping, but also with the ancillary industries, such as fast food, which depend on foot traffic in commercial areas.
This has allowed internet companies to poach sales from big box stores, and crater profits for brick-and-mortar companies that are drowning under high fixed costs.
Painter after painter capitulates to the allure of warm ochre-painted walls and ancient brick, umbrella pines and bare hills, revealed by low, diffused, golden light.
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