Casey's has spent 38 years selling convenience-store goods mainly in small midwestern towns with populations of 5, 000 or fewer.
On top of that, criminals could use the same method to fool the terminal into thinking a transaction was bank-approved, allowing them to walk out of a store with goods they hadn't paid for.
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Merchants would accept scrip, also at a sharp discount of 25% to 40%, and then redeem the scrip at full value at the company store for goods they could then resell in their stores.
This is true buying a PC in an electronics store, a washing machine in a white goods store and even was true buying an espresso maker being flogged off cheap in a supermarket.
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Sam drove to nearby Canton, where he visited a sporting-goods store and purchased a twelve-gauge shotgun.
Good news if you run a sporting goods store: People are spending money on bats and balls again!
This particular home goods store allows you to scan the items, place your order at the register, and then choose the pick-up date.
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Onetime Loughner friend Zachary Osler explained how he worked at a sporting goods store where Loughner bought the handgun used in the shooting.
But we might already have a way to stop it with a common item you can find in any sporting goods store: paintballs.
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Moreover, Canadian private investment is divided evenly between machinery and equipment, which boost productivity sharply, and structures that store and transport goods, which have less of an impact.
Another permit has been issued that allows a large retail store to move goods quickly from damaged stores to temporary facilities nearby so people still have access to needed goods.
While preparing for the trip, he walked into a San Antonio sporting goods store to buy some equipment, and struck up a conversation with a woman who was there buying hiking boots.
"It is a game of couples, of partners, of love and community, " says Morris Zadok, 62, owner of a sporting-goods store dedicated largely to matkot and regarded as one of the sport's leading advocates.
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And critics have taken direct aim at CEO Mike Jefferies, the man who transformed Abercrombie from hunting-goods store to a specialty retailer with scantily clad models, wondering whether he is still the best choice to lead the company.
Wearing maroon jerseys (the only colour available at the local sporting-goods store), and with high-top shoes, leather maskless helmets and trousers padded with magazines, the Maroons beat the league's other strong team, the Chicago Cardinals, towards the end of the 1925 season.
It follows a decision by Environment Minister Alex Attwood to limit the type of goods sold at the store to bulky items such as furniture or white goods.
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Long and inflexible supply lines are causing the company, which manufactures replacement industrial refrigerator parts, to finance and store large amounts of goods.
Yaoko, a supermarket chain, has had rising profits for the past ten years by freeing store managers to select goods to match local tastes.
It is concerned that - because warranties are mostly sold in store along with electrical goods - there is a lack of competition in the marketplace.
In April fund manager Laura Geritz spent five days in Chile and Argentina touring a hospital, a port operator, a grocery store and a sporting goods retailer.
When my son and I went to our local home goods chain store, we learned about a new back-to-school purchasing option which allows for people to scan, ship and pay in one seamless process.
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It appears that a luxury goods department store giving up 5, 500 square feet of prime selling space during the heart of the holiday season on one of the most expensive retail districts in the world means that merchandising and pricing had to reflect this reality.
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He opened a small textile store that used to supply goods to the erstwhile rulers.
His job: get the goods onto the store shelves, on time and cheaply.
It was delivery day, and he was carrying all the drinks, beers, cat food and other goods into the store.
The improvement in sales is attributed to the introduction of a new catalogue, which increased the range of goods in each store by 30%.
He had intended to return to the store to pay for the goods but was accosted by police before he had the chance and tried to flee the scene, the court heard.
Surveying Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people ) shoppers during the first weekend in December, America's Research Group found that 32% planned to buy electronic goods at the store this year, compared to 20% that did so in 2006.
Other companies, including chocolate firm Thorntons, music store HMV and children's goods retailer Mothercare, announced shop closures.
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