His stores receive most goods directly from factories, while Lowe's runs most items through its own warehouses.
At 16 he bought vending machines, moving them from factories to gas stations popular with cabbies like his father.
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Scott's great-grandfather, Richard (Doc) Farmer, a circus prizefighter, collected chemical-soaked rags from factories and washed and returned them for a fee.
However, the goods supplied take months to manufacture and originate from factories that will consider returns only if the goods are faulty.
The output from factories, mines and farms, though still only a fraction of what it was just over a decade ago, is rising.
How would Airbus get the huge ready-built sections of the A380 to its headquarters in Toulouse, France from factories in Britain and Germany?
Those comments have led to favorable ones for FedEx (FDX), which stands to benefit as Apple starts shipping the iPhone 5 from from factories in China.
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Waking up in the middle of the night to take a phone call, or waiting for emails from factories telling you about shipment is stressful and counter productive.
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Hailed as one of China's most successful rags-to-riches entrepreneurs, Huang got started in business by selling home electronics in the nation's capital sourced from factories in Guangdong province.
But stop for the time it takes to make one machine - approximately four seconds - and a few things will become apparent that differ from factories past.
Rear fuselages made in Hamburg were supposed to arrive in Toulouse with all their wiring ready to plug into the forward parts coming in from factories in north and west France.
However, arsenic is also used in industry (as a wood preservative, and also in paints, dyes, metals, drugs and soaps) and in agriculture and is sometimes released into the environment from factories, industrial plants and farming enterprises.
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Now, instead of routing all footwear and apparel that come in from factories in Southeast Asia through a distribution center in Memphis, Nike can have them sent directly to specific stores or the consumers who order them online.
In both countries water and sewerage systems need to be vastly expanded, and governments in both countries are also coming under intense public pressure to curb what are often appalling levels of local pollution from factories and power plants.
Some of Gamal's relatives moved to one housing project outside Cairo, but after spending almost their entire salaries on daily transportation to and from factories where they worked in central Cairo, they decided to move back to the city.
The disaster, which comes after a fire in another Bangladesh factory killed 112 people last November, also highlights something just as troubling for socially conscious shoppers: It's nearly impossible to make sure the clothes you buy come from factories with safe working conditions.
While other factors, including a sluggish U.S. economy and increasing energy efficiency, have contributed to the decline in carbon emissions from factories, automobiles and power plants, many experts believe the switch from coal to natural gas for electricity generation has been the biggest factor.
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As a result, cars going from factories in Detroit to showrooms in Seattle, or grain from the plains heading for the ports of the east coast, have to sit around for up to 24 hours on sidings in switching yards in Chicago or Sioux City, as the wagons carrying them are uncoupled from one firm's locomotives and shunted to those of another.
The government hopes to steer China's economy--and its image--away from dirty factories and toward global brands and high-tech outfits.
The contaminants included emissions from small factories and crab farms along the shore.
And even as America and Europe are exporting pessimism to Asia's policymakers, they are importing goods from its factories.
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Haryana is a landlocked state and Maruti faces significant costs to transport vehicles to ports for export from its factories.
With demand from textile factories in southern China plunging, the province's cotton growers had to seek government subsidies in 2008.
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Some retailers, including Primark and Loblaw, have promised to compensate injured employees and families of the dead from the factories manufacturing their brands.
If the equity premium is overstated, managers may be overlooking profitable investments, from new factories to drug research to investments in poor countries.
The old policy was tolerable since local governments could also usually dissuade power companies from disconnecting factories that could not pay their bills.
Moreover, the carbon footprint and we will remain and the pollution from those factories may very well be carried aloft to right here.
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When Rubbermaid could not, or would not, rationalize its delivery system to consolidate shipments from different factories, Wal-Mart took simplification into its own hands.
Jaguar Land Rover recorded sales in 177 countries for 2012 and currently exports 85% of production from its factories in Birmingham, Merseyside and Coventry.
Worker-rights groups have said that the pressure of production increases and the introduction of workers from other factories can increase stress on the factory floor.
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