Retailer JC Penney hired former Apple and Target executive Ron Johnson with high hopes that he would save the lumbering middle-class department store from its continued slide.
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Initially, Wegmans called customers only on their landlines for a Class 1 recall for a national product or a store brand with a recall level of Class 1 or 2 (causing temporary illness).
The owner of a neighborhood grocery store in a middle-class neighborhood in Tehran said regular customers have openly told him they aren't buying milk in order to honor the boycott.
Amazon has even set up a separate GPS store for the once-obscure class of gadgets.
The merchant class works in the store by day and goes home at night to enjoy the family meal.
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How can a somewhat dowdy mid-tier department store chain be put in the same class as Nordstrom and Apple?
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Another reason is Chinese upper middle class use real estate as a store of value.
Just inside the entrance to the Bodega Aurrera store in Mexico City's lower-class Naucalpan neighborhood sit two shopping carts filled with the same sampling of products--things like Kellogg's Corn Flakes and a dozen eggs.
Kimberly advises her class to take a copy of the store's terms and conditions with them and, if the store manager still refuses to play ball when you arrive at the check-out armed with your coupons, phone corporate headquarters.
Store this cake in a plastic cake saver or under a class cake dome at room temperature for up to 1 week.
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Moreover, the opening of a halfway decent grocery store is often the trigger for the arrival of other better-class shops in the area, which then spurs a local economic revival.
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Ms. Lerman said the new class is intended to address marketing metrics related to in-store and online brand performance.
The class has drawn considerable interest, says Judy Steinkoenig, the store's co-owner.
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So if world-class organizations are facing the consequences of complexity, what could be in store for the rest of us?
Just one industrial-class example: Panoptix, a Johnson Controls subsidiary, has an app store for energy management of commercial buildings.
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) develops advanced hard disk drives, enterprise-class solid state drives, and innovative external storage solutions and services used to store, preserve and manage the world's most valued data.
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It looks like those that bought a Seagate hard drive in the past few years could possibly be in store for a few freebies or a bit of cash, at least if a proposed class action settlement goes ahead.
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C. who goes to the thrift store every week and uses her own money to buy pencils and books for her fourth grade class.
The internet has lots of legal sites like this, which promise thousands of top-class titles but in truth resemble the worst shelves of a bad video-rental store.
The company opened its three-story flagship store on People's Square in downtown Shanghai in 2006 to sell Goodbaby and other brands to middle-class Chinese.
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