Only a few scraps of the rag trade remain, but in 1958, before the advent of credit cards, Burton's had the bright idea of store cards.
Tesco had its share of trials and tribulations as it built up its web fulfillment operations to the point where the virtual store idea could actually be made to work.
Giordano has also been able to get affordable versions of the latest street-culture-inspired styles from the idea phase to store shelves at an amazing speed - mostly by pushing suppliers to meet strict timetables and moving production closer to the stores.
She knew she wanted to be in retail, and loved the idea of a furniture store.
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The idea of the App Store, what Apple is doing, we're going to do that on a wide scale.
And it all comes down to the idea of the app store.
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It's also a good idea to monitor prices for your favorite items for about a month at your local grocery store to get an idea of the lowest price at which it is offered.
Of course, one solution to this problem: the app store, an idea pioneered on the iPhone and introduced last year for the Macintosh.
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Cecelia said she had no idea what would be in store this weekend for the chic hotel (Robert Plant and Johnny Depp are regulars).
"If you're there in the store, the idea is to see the merchandise, touch the merchandise and hopefully get some kind of emotional response out of it, " he said.
He also said it's a good idea to apply at a store that's close to home, because most retailers will want their hourly seasonal workers to work late, meaning it's often midnight or 1 a.m. before everyone goes home for the night.
The idea is that retailers can generate store traffic by luring in customers with free gift cards in hand.
"Either you buy into it or you don't, " said Mr. Ruhf, who came up with the idea for Molecule after sampling a similar store in California.
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We need to make sure our communication of the core brand idea is not only reinforced in the store, but that it can stand alone in the store.
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An employee in an adjacent store in the mall in Phoenix told us she sees plenty of foot traffic in the Microsoft store, but has no idea about sales.
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Mr. Osler said he had no idea the weapon was purchased in his store until after the shooting, and that he hadn't been working on the day Mr. Loughner came in to buy it.
While creating a specialty department store sounds like a great idea, the reality of losing sales and earnings at a faster clip than has ever been seen in a major American retailer must give the Board pause.
So Steiner did what the entrepreneurs he often wrote about did: he went out and got funding from seed-funding VC firm YCombinator for a technology he believes can bring customers back to the stores and he signed up two grocery store chains to test out his idea.
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"Since Edison invented the record player the idea has been you sell the record inside a store, " Matt Mason, vice-president of marketing, told the BBC.
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She said she had bought a ticket at a store across the street, and the idea of winning that much money was still something of a shock.
The idea to collect and analyze buying habits of grocery store customers came to LaValle and He while both worked brutal hours in the technology group for the investment giant Morgan Stanley in late 2009.
Google's new Android Market web store is a pretty awesome and simple idea in theory -- browse and buy apps through the web, hit install, and watch them appear on your Android phone or tablet.
His idea: a better molten salt mixture that would store heat at higher temperatures to boost electricity production but that would remain liquid at lower temperatures so less energy would be diverted to keep it from solidifying.
The idea: provide a secure, password protected site to store and share information about the people and processes connected to loved ones in need.
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"The idea is to be digital from the laboratory molecule to the store shelf, " he says.
This is the state of marketing today, which is that an idea can be at once an awareness generating machine, a store, and a percolator of buzz worldwide.
The idea seems pretty simple, starting from a penny, you can store 1GB of data on the firm's servers for one month.
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It's an interesting idea, but its still a long way from hitting the app store -- the demo we were given was only a concept app, and the geotagging portion of the demonstration was simulated.
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First of all, companies should have at least a vague idea of how the data may be of value before spending money to store it.
It was Jim who came up with the idea, and it was right along with the birth of the app store, with the iPhone.
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