Newegg is also increasingly battling store chains like Best Buy, Walmart, Target and Sears.
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Store chains have been complaining for years that online merchants should collect and remit sales taxes.
Amazon contends store chains are pushing the laws to siphon away its valuable business partners.
Wal-Mart, Sears and other store chains publicly offered to work with the Amazon affiliates.
Imitation of foreign brand name products and store chains is neither new, nor unique to China.
He meets with book buyers at major store chains and checks in with his publisher's sales force.
This is especially true for convenience store chains, which reap approximately 67% of their revenue from fuel sales.
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Look at the explosive growth that many of the dollar store chains have had over the past few years.
Disney and other film studios are not only pumping out ever more toys, but are also expanding their store chains.
For the study, the researchers used two data sets from chain stores and interviewed managers of nine convenience store chains.
The rise of big-box retailers, be they discounters or swollen supermarkets and drugstores, has given store chains the heft to bypass wholesalers.
During the recession many consumers were flocking to large grocery store chains that could offer more substantial discounts thanks to their purchase volume.
Previously recommended grocery store chains have worked out well for us.
Yucho has recently lost some of its payments business to Japan's convenience-store chains, which together have an even more comprehensive branch network than the post office.
In states including Texas and Arkansas, store chains are also backing legislation that seeks to make clear that Amazon must collect sales taxes if it controls in-state warehouses through related companies.
American shoppers in search of cheap toys and televisions raced to stores in high numbers after Thanksgiving dinner, signaling that a gambit by big store chains to open at midnight succeeded in drawing more customers.
Collectively, these businesses design, produce and sell greeting cards and other related products, such as gift bags and party supplies, through numerous distribution channels, including mass merchandisers, drug store chains, discount retailers, card and gift retailers, and supermarkets.
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Although Poynter provides a vital financial cushion during lean times, it can't do anything about external forces beyond its control, such as the proliferation of new Web-based news platforms or the consolidation of department-store chains, which has hurt advertising revenues.
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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Many store chains that enjoyed a second straight banner year of growth through their Web sites in 2006 appear ready to hit some headwinds this year, thanks to a lack of cutting-edge Internet marketing and continued difficulties integrating store and Web businesses, not to mention a sputtering economy that's got more consumers watching their wallets.
Until now, the competition authorities have not worried about big store-chains squeezing their suppliers, because they have assumed that the public would reap the benefit in lower prices.
With increased orders and in-store traffic, food chains are prepared to meet the demand by bringing in a greater number of employees today.
Retailers reported November same-store sales results and most chains booked better than expected numbers.
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Occupied by a mix of local retailers like a family-owned grocery store as well as national chains like Chipotle, the mostly red brick low-rise district has a relatively lively bar and nightclub scene.
Same-store sales across the casual dining chains have declined for four years running, a sign that the industry is way overbuilt.
Thursday is this month's big day in the retail world, with lots of big chains reporting same-store sales figures for February.
Through November these chains' same-store sales were off 2% or more.
In an article aptly titled The Myth Of Big Retail, journalist Sreenivasan Jain tells the story of the head of one of India's biggest retail chains explaining why his store design actually encouraged overcrowding.
"For those that do it right it's a big deal, " says Scott Silverman, Shop.org's executive director, who cited Circuit City and Sears as chains that have effectively merged store and Web operations.
Against that backdrop, retail chains are reporting their same store sales for July today, and so far they are less than stellar, particularly considering the comparisons are to July of last year when chain store sales fell an average of 5%.
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