The stores set the retail industry on its ear by defying logical rules for location and profit models.
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Industry analysts believe stores may have been overly optimistic in ordering Blu-ray players for the holiday season.
In its recent list of the hottest 100 retailers, industry trade magazine STORES noted there are three other natural-foods chains growing faster than Whole Foods.
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Elsewhere in the discount retail industry, Family Dollar Stores rose 1.1% and Dollar Tree gained 0.9%.
Retailers like Target and industry giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. have a lot of catching up to do, as analysts estimate their websites account for only 1% to 2% of their annual sales.
Then, the National Association of Convenience Stores, the trade group for the industry that sells most gas in the country, put out a stunning report on how much swipe fees affect the price of gas and the merchants who sell it.
Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman and John Koskinen, chair of the President Council on Y2K Conversion, flanked by representatives from the food industry, said that grocery stores, convenience stores and major chain restaurants have completed their Y2K preparations and anticipate no problems for consumers.
And the used game industry, which is thriving at stores like GameStop, focuses on consoles and portables, not PC titles.
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The focus on owning the stores has helped maintain clean, well run stores that are unique in the fast food industry.
Historically, the revenue per square foot for Anthropologie stores has been one of the highest in the industry.
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Then Marketing went off and researched the target account by talking to Wall Street and industry analysts, suppliers, employees in stores, and reporters.
For example, when he started the Apple Stores, he purposely avoided hiring someone from the computer industry.
According to industry analysts, of all the products in stores after the holidays, electronics are the least likely to go on sale.
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Furniture stores have higher margins and convenience stores have very small ones but no matter what the industry a drop in margin has an impact on the bottom.
In the U.S., the traditional shopping mall is part of a saturated market, thanks to big-box retailers and retail-industry consolidation that wiped once-popular anchor stores like Montgomery Ward from the landscape.
In the U.S., meanwhile, the traditional shopping mall is part of a saturated market, thanks to the off-mall big-box retailers and to retail-industry consolidation that has jettisoned previously popular anchor stores like Montgomery Ward from the landscape.
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Those who work in retail stores or restaurants, reporters and others in the media industry, gas station attendants, utility workers, hotel and airport personnel, public transportation workers, and business owners, among many other professionals, could also be on the clock tomorrow.
Well we are making some size of investment there, we have a significant industry foot presence, we visit 12, 000 stores at least once a week throughout China.
Peter Moore said the industry was changing, adding that some of the Game stores were reopening under new ownership.
The industry has at last given its backing to online music stores, such as Apple Computer's iTunes and Roxio's Napster 2.0 (not to be confused with the company killed off by the music industry for aiding illegal downloads).
"In the past few years, we've been getting calls from people interested in opening their own stores, " says Carrie Dieterich, vice president of marketing and industry relations at the Electronic Merchants Association, the trade association for the home entertainment industry.
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First opened in 2001, the stores have risen as a financial anomaly in the struggling physical-retail industry.
Online stores add to rather than cannibalise physical stores, hence they tend to bring in additional sales, according to industry observers.
The restaurant industry has lobbied for the prepared foods in supermarkets and convenience stores to be included, saying they are selling essentially the same things.
The industry's leading trade group, the National Association of Campus Stores, tested a Web-site hosting service for independent campus stores at five schools for several months and announced a widespread rollout of the program set for spring.
This strategy is being pursued in tandem with opening smaller-sized mobile stand-alone stores which increase average revenue per square feet, a key performance measure for this industry.
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When you factor in all the indirect and induced jobs that the industry supports in all the hotels, cafes, gas stations and clothing stores around the state, you quickly get numbers into the millions.
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But from a broader smartphone standpoint, it also shows that American companies dominate the top tier of the smartphone industry and that they are likely to draw increasing value from their apps stores as consumers in emerging markets increase their purchases of smartphones.
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But Fairway is looking to expand at a time when the supermarket industry is facing greater competition from big-box retailers, drugstores and even dollar stores.
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