It was the same with large stores and malls on the Xidan and Wangfujing shopping streets.
The soldier said there were large stores of food and even supplies of electricity for commanders.
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The development of e-readers and e-books created more pressure on the large stores.
Relaxing the laws controlling large stores has already increased competition by encouraging rapid growth in the number of big supermarkets and foreign retailers.
Bain Capital backed Staples, for example, after executives there determined that small businesses would patronize large stores carrying all their office supplies in one place.
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It said the move is in response to the Scottish government's health levy, a supplementary charge on business rates paid by large stores selling cigarettes and alcohol.
Best Buy has been growing bigger by opening up large stores where people would browse for new appliances and electronic gadgets but end up shopping elsewhere, on line.
The momentary plateau may be a function of difficulty in finding perfect locations for the 25 large stores it plans to open in China over the next few years.
Some large stores had begun testing the market in recent years and there was a danger of a "domino effect" with others following suit in the face of competitive pressures, he said.
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Large stores like Wal-Mart and Target will give an indication of consumer appetite while stores like Home Depot and Loews will provide a proxy for activity levels in construction and manufacturing.
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"The large stores we have are great and we are doing a lot of work to make them more vibrant and relevant for today's customers, but we won't need many more of them because growth in future will be multichannel a combination of big stores, local convenience stores and online, " Clarke said.
The closures are part of a plan announced by former Chief Executive Brian Dunn last month to begin shifting away from the big-box formula that made the retailer a powerhouse in the 1990s, by remodeling some large stores, shuttering 50 others and opening new smaller stores focused on selling mobile phones and tablets.
This is worrying, for almost a quarter of all large supermarket stores have either no large competitor or just one within a 15-minute drive.
Passionato will face competition from established online classical music stores such as eclassical as well as from large download stores such as iTunes which have some classical works in their catalogues.
Strong margin potential should buoy some large department stores as well, even in what's shaping up to be an average overall season.
Large record stores, what's left of them, often have whole "Afrobeat" sections in world-music departments, and more major cities are home to local Afrobeat bands than ever before.
He's forged deals with several large department stores, including J.
Some large department stores in London take euros and some other foreign currencies, such as the US dollar and the Japanese yen, but the official currency of the UK remains sterling.
The grocery business has become a highly competitive one with low margins compressed even further due to competition from Wal-Mart and other large format stores that siphon price-conscious shoppers away from traditional grocers.
Opening more supercenters and large format stores may be difficult for Wal-Mart due its massive presence in the U.S. Therefore, the company is now focusing its efforts on increasing the productivity of its existing stores.
Visa and MasterCard reply that they can charge steeper fees because they bring stores large amounts of new business.
Its rival, Best Buy, has decided to close 50 of its large-format stores in the U.S. in order to save costs.
The company, Gray explains, runs large-format stores, such as those of Best Buy in the U.S. or Dixons in the U.K., and is taking market share away from smaller retailers.
Wherever I ventured, in stores large and small, I experienced what would be considered white-glove service back home, delivered with the kind of warmth, enthusiasm and salesmanship typically found in black-and-white movies.
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To that end, the chain is aggressively courting city planners with plans for large scale discount stores in lower income areas thus bringing fresh, low-priced goods to food deserts and smaller formats in more upscale ares.
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In each town or province, the program organizes local sari-sari stores into a group, and turns one of the stores into a large "Community Store" that doubles as a wholesale market where the owners of other smaller stores in the area can procure the goods they need.
Independent record stores are increasingly rare, first falling victim to large chains and later to online stores like Amazon.com and iTunes.
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