Heinz sells its products through its sales organizations, independent agents and distributors to everyone: grocery stores chains, convenience stores, bakeries, pharmacies, mass merchants, club stores, hotels, restaurants, hospitals, health-care facilities and various government agencies.
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The biggest losers are likely to be the pricier department stores, speciality chains and luxury stores.
Many of the two chains' stores compete in the same markets, making them an obvious target for cost cuts.
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He also owns restaurant chains, department stores, construction companies, banks and bakeries and cigarette manufacturers.
Companies that could fit this model are fast food chains, retail stores, and construction companies.
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The broader supermarket industry has been facing growing competition from big-box retailers such as Target, drugstore chains and dollar stores.
Retail sales are falling, consumer confidence is sagging and financial analysts are cutting profit forecasts for clothing chains, department stores and restaurants.
Chains with physical stores such as Wal-Mart are more likely to go out of stock on some products than online retailers such as Amazon.
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The formerly industrial area is more-sparsely developed than the rest of London, with public housing and overcrowded homes alternating with fast-food chains and corner stores.
Lawson one of Japan several major convenience stores chains, ubiquitous not only domestically, but increasingly in other Asian countries, particularly in Shanghai through a joint venture.
As a business, making cupcakes has a relatively low barrier to entry and the field has become saturated with competitors, including individual bakeries, chains and grocery stores.
Currently, Variety Wholesalers owns several chains of discount stores, among them Roses, Maxway, Super 10, and Bargain Town, amounting to more than four hundred outlets in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic regions.
In the first half of 2009, not generally considered a bright spot for American retail, buyers of fashion footwear spent almost twenty per cent more through online-only channels than they had the previous year, according to the NPD Group, a market-research firm, while sales at shoe chains, department stores, and stand-alone shops were down about eleven per cent each.
Independent record stores are increasingly rare, first falling victim to large chains and later to online stores like Amazon.com and iTunes.
Massmart runs nine wholesale and retail chains with approximately 288 stores in 14 African countries.
If investors want to buy more boutique-like stores, they should aim for larger chains, such as Abercrombie, as those stores don't solely rely on children's clothing and if it flops, they aren't as likely to go under.
The only competition is two local burger chains with fewer than 100 stores each.
Last year, national retail chains closed 4, 763 stores, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers.
But his critics said, well, Wal-Mart comes into a small town and puts everybody out of business, the mom-and-pop stores and rival chains.
The 2011 proposed rules would require chain restaurants with 20 or more locations, along with bakeries, grocery stores, convenience stores and coffee chains, to clearly post the calorie count for each item on their menus.
What ultimately doomed the regulation was its Swiss-cheese exemptions, tailored to fit state laws and political reality, that exempted alcoholic beverages, grocery stores, convenience chains, and even a carefully constructed class of drinks with more than half milk or certain milk substitutes which contain even more calories than soda.
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Aside from convenience stores and some niche sellers, the territory's supermarket business is controlled by two huge chains: Park'n Shop, the stores owned by Li Ka-shing's Hutchison Whampoa Group, and Wellcome, which belongs to Asia's biggest grocer, Jardine Matheson-controlled Dairy Farm.
Another subsample of data from 251 stores within 31 retail chains provided information about the ratio of cash shortage to store sales.
Customers will be able to buy the jerseys at the end of April both online and at various retail chains, including Nike's stores.
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Other big chains, including Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and McDonald's Corp.
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With the rise of online shopping the chains did not need as many stores as they did in the past, a trend that looks set to accelerate this year.
Not only have most of the small book stores disappeared, but huge chains like B.
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Then he diversified, opening several more sports retail chains, including a string of golf stores, and buying franchise rights to operate top brand-name sportswear and designer clothing shops.
Big Orange has demolished once-thriving chains, not to mention countless small hardware stores.
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