Of course, store location is always important and research on real estate takes time and guidance by local experts.
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Newly established grilled cheese restaurant The Melt in San Francisco recently launched the opening to their new store location with a twist.
Margins, meanwhile, are fat for a reason: fresh food is always a high-risk business, which requires an intimate understanding of how customers' tastes vary according to store location and time of day.
But mapping mobile phone users' general movements could help retailers make strategic decisions on store location and opening times, the company believes, and help town councils plan car parking facilities and manage public events.
Unlike Apple, which places increasingly tight control over what people can put on iPads, Google seems to want as many outsiders as possible to put anything they want on Android, with the fastest possible velocity of successful apps moving through the system (love an app, and you can automatically Tweet a link to its app store location).
The Apple attitude allowed Ron Johnson and the Apple team to throw out the conventional retail playbook that dictated store design, location, and staffing decisions.
Consumers are on edge following a high profile data leak at Sony and revelations that both Apple and Google smartphones record and store the geographical location of their users.
The Large Scale Retail Location Law requires two-thirds support of local residents for a chain store to open a new location.
Given the capital investment required to open a new store, a bad location can be a very costly mistake.
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Glyn Roberts, Northern Ireland Independent Retail Trade Association chief executive, said his members object to the location of the store.
Store hours may vary by location.
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Caroline Anstey, from the Holme Valley Business Association, said the planned location for the new store was "entirely wrong".
She sold the second location of her video store, stopped using her credit cards and decided it was time to get help.
Coach has been in Japan for many years already and now has 187 locations including a prestigious location in the Mitsukoshi store in Tokyo.
She was in the middle of an expensive divorce and had been charging business expenses to her personal credit cards when she opened a second location of her video store.
On a recent tour of the damage, Rick and Chris Doody, who operate the chain with their father, Alton, said they will likely shutter the New Orleans location, while keeping their store in nearby Metairie open.
The pricing of an individual item may no longer be determined by the sticker price but instead depend on how often the consumer has bought that item before, whether they have accepted promotional offers to try out a related product, and the location of the town and store where they are shopping.
The new iOS 4.3.3 alters how the iPhone and the 3G iPad devices store and back up a built-in location database cache.
"It may be easier for criminals to tamper with a machine that is in a non-bank location, such as a grocery store, deli or shopping mall, " the New York state banking department advises.
Also, depending on the use of location-enabled services or apps that store data on the phone, the police might also be able to infer the arrestee's past whereabouts.
"Over the last nine years John Lewis has clearly and consistently stated that, having reviewed all available options, Sprucefield is the only suitable location to develop a new full line department store in Northern Ireland, " they said.
This in fact is already happening, with a select number of companies already deploying enhanced mobile and location-based technology to improve the in-store and impulse buying experience.
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It acts like a full-service store until 31 December, while another temporary loft-like location just upstairs from their shut-down boutique on Pedder Street will operate until 20 February.
Those documents allowed Subway to lease him a mall store with expensive common charges, open other outlets near his location and avoid standing up for him against his landlord.
Because her phone has pinpointed her location via GPS, she also learns that another store in the mall carries a "greener" sunscreen that has neither of those two problems.
Content on the homepage will be automatically updated depending on the users' location and the UK's leading premium department store, House of Fraser, will be the first exclusive advertiser across the outdoor O2 Wifi network.
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He also noted that there have been shortages at the Apple store in mainland as well as complete sell-outs at the location in Hong Kong.
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Apple has sort of done it with their Apple Store environments, but that works because the prices are basically the same online and in-store and they provided service extras in the brick-and-mortar location.
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