Miners and lumberjacks could use the scrip at the company store--often the only store in town--or redeem the tokens for cash, at a steep 25% discount.
Yet in our review, only 2% of the Hot 100 retailers sought in-store engagement through SMS, and only 5% promoted a proprietary mobile application.
Belle, whose shares trade in Hong Kong, said in a statement yesterday its same-store footwear sales in China increased by only 2.8% in the first three months of the year from a year earlier.
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I. looking for a Tea Collection Botanic Garden Play dress, 2-year-old size--and the store has that item only in a 4-year-old.
True to what we've already heard, activations will be done in-store, you'll only be allowed to pick up three at a time, and prepaid's a no-go.
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The card only allows redemptions on an annual basis that is an in-store coupon redeemable for merchandise or cash at Costco only.
The nine chains that increased their servings of lower-calorie items not only had a 5.5% increase in same-store sales, they also increased their customer traffic 10.9%.
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Some of the details weren't as strong, though, as same-store sales in North America rose by only 1%.
Construction just commenced on a new 90, 000-square-foot store in North Portland that will be home to not only the largest green roof in the green roof-happy city of Portland, but the largest green roof in the entire state of Oregon.
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Others that began as e-tailers-only are beginning to move into physical retailing, albeit in a lighter weight pop-up store format.
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He and others predict that new advertising models could emerge, such as charging a marketer only when an ad drives an in-store purchase, something retailers have been experimenting with and lusting after for a long time.
Roubini himself calls the 2008 downturn a "stag deflation" and Shilling says 30-year Treasurys are the only safe value store in a deflationary storm.
The company said same-store sales were up only 0.4% in October, despite holiday discounting.
Tiffany reported sales weakness in Europe, where same-store sales on a constant currency basis increased only 6%.
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"A little snow doesn't scare me, " said Leeann Rivera, 43, stocking up at the only major grocery store still open in the Sandy-ravaged Far Rockaway section of Queens.
This is a viable solution for stores losing sales to potential customers who browse in-store but end up researching products and eventually buying through online-only retailers such as Amazon.
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The club retailer said that same-store sales increased 19% internationally and only 10% in the U.S. Members of the retailer in the U.S. and Canada will therefore see higher fees for their club cards.
Not only does VITIS store all of its wines in a state-of-the-art climate controlled facility to ensure quality, it will also store your wines there, a service they claim no other online retailer offers.
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The reason it puts some store in the data is that it says the last two times long-only buying was at these levels, March 2009 and July 2009, the MSCI Europe index performed very strongly over the next three months.
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One day--maybe not next year or in five years, but eventually--the Big Mac will flatline in the U.S. The evidence: In the past four years McDonald's has averaged only 1% annual same-store sales growth, trailing the 4% average for its main burger rivals.
One day--maybe not next year or in five years, but eventually--the Big Mac will flatline in the U.S. The evidence: In the past four years McDonald's has averaged only 1% annual same-store sales growth, trailing the 4% average for its main burger rivals, Burger King, Wendy's and Jack-in-the-Box.
The program has been successful in not only increasing e-cycling awareness, but also in attracting more consumers into the store.
However, the firm Tesco said a third of staff for the store would be recruited from the long-term unemployed in the area and, as the only town centre supermarket, it would increase revenue to surrounding shops.
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Shopping centers, which play host to day-to-day necessities--drugstores, hair salons, laundries--are down 0.5%. (The big malls, owned by powerful players like real estate investment trusts, are finding meager advances in same-store sales at their department stores and boutiques.) Warehouses, their growth pace off only half a point to 4%, are still much in demand.
For example, even though pvh first thought it could sell Calvin Klein men's sportswear at 700 to 800 U.S. department store locations with in-store space of 1, 500 square feet, it cautiously launched in just 150 stores, with only 500 square feet each. (Today the line is in 500 stores, averaging 750 square feet.) "As the business rolled out, we ramped up to the appropriate size, " says Emanuel Chirico, who was named chief executive last February.
An ice cream company may only be 30-40% though as they need to buy freezer space in the grocery store, which is a deduct from gross profit.
However, the days when second-hand book shops were the only place to find a book you could not get in a high street store are long gone.
Despite debuting with a limited "friends and family test" on the Israeli App Store on November 10, Viber took only 16 days to become the most-downloaded app in Israel.
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But as the Omidyars drove their Volkswagen Cabriolet back to their home, furnished with budget brands from a Target store, they felt only more confused--like not a few of the accidental billionaires in the Valley.
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