Residential homes are overwhelmingly for-profit (about 82 percent) and about four in ten are run by large chains.
Independent record stores are increasingly rare, first falling victim to large chains and later to online stores like Amazon.com and iTunes.
He said last month that as large chains such as HMV and Blockbuster closed, more retail premises would become available at cheaper rents.
The stations owned by large chains, with no particular political axe to grind and potentially a lot to lose in Washington, will almost certainly carry the test.
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Dealing with these large chains reduced distribution costs, facilitated efficient ordering practices, allowed the creation of set title lists, and created a coherent network for book signings and literary events that promoted publishers and sellers joint interests.
Generally I find that customer service standards in restaurants and hotels is far better than in shops (although small independant shops tend to be much better than supermarkets and large chains), and that the more mature staff tend to give better service than their younger colleagues.
J. and Twin Falls, Idaho. (Though large chains like Zales have approached him, Rothman says they tend to want more business than he's willing to give--no more than 5% of total sales.) He often makes his salesclerks practice in front of a videocamera so they can analyze their performance later.
Large restaurant chains have a staff person who specializes in acquisition and maintenance of liquor licenses.
In America, where the market is most developed, most large hotel chains began wiring up their rooms several years ago.
Large upscale chains continued to perform solidly in August, with same-store sales up 7.1% at Nordstrom and 3.3% at Saks.
This, in turn, allowed international buyers such as large supermarket chains and conglomerate beverage companies to put extra downward price pressure on growers.
Besides, the Tower would only be bought by large restaurant chains.
Mr Golton said that large retail chains could afford to contribute to the costs of hosting events in Leeds more easily than independent traders in towns.
The same information that large retail chains pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for will be available to your landscaper, mom and pop shops and even street artists.
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The solution appeared in the rise of large bookstore chains.
In its first four years, Terracycle raked in about half-a-million dollars in revenue selling liquefied worm poop at large retail chains such as Wal Mart, Target, and Home Depot.
In the past decade, dozens of national or regional management companies like Divisions have sprung up to provide one-stop snow-removal shopping for large retail chains and other customers with facilities scattered around the nation.
Players begin by executing three, four, and five match combos facilitated by creature abilities (Such as change all fire orbs to water orbs, for instance) and will quickly discover that creating large combo chains will yield explosive results.
The online travel industry continues to face increasing competition from airlines and large hotel chains offering bookings directly at their websites leading to online travel agencies removing the booking fees to match the prices quoted by the suppliers themselves.
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Other members of the board have been involved with restaurants and other large consumer retail chains.
During the recession many consumers were flocking to large grocery store chains that could offer more substantial discounts thanks to their purchase volume.
His design came about by accident when swings were put up on large poles and chains in the park for a Sunday school treat.
"These new tax laws affecting affiliates are supported by the large national retailing chains that covet the affiliate advertising programs of their competitors, " Paul Misener, Amazon's vice president of public policy, said in a statement.
But their technology was based on the luminescent abilities of small organic molecules--single molecules--in contrast to the large ones--chains of molecules--Friend utilized.
Xu Lingling, chief financial officer at Lianhua, says that whereas big foreign players, such as Carrefour, have taken top sites in large cities, Chinese chains may be better suited to mid-sized towns where productivity is lower.
Buyers includ large-scale professionals at grocery chains, independent restaurant owners, and you and me, buying for our home grocery needs.
PBMs and drugstore chains that are the large drug firms' customers.
The scandal started in Ireland last month, when authorities there found horse meat in some beef burgers sold in large U.K. supermarket chains, but it has now swept across Europe.
It might yield big benefits for commercial airlines and retail chains, which typically lease a large fraction of their assets, and for steel- and automakers that have large unionized workforces, which will give them greater leverage to renegotiate collective bargaining agreements.
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