Word: carte
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hold (or Return). If you make your way to the cash register and your willpower hasn't kicked in, you still have two options. First, put the item on hold for 24 hours. Even if your weakness is online shopping, you can often leave an item in your cart for a day or two. If you no longer feel compelled to buy it a day later, don't go back to the store or the site. And if you do buy it--and realize you really don't need it--you can always send it back...
...stores around the country. Some of these shops cram a surprising array of foods into their limited shelf space, and a small but growing number have imported food - taco shells, olives, cheeses. But very few of them have aisles down which you can push a shopping cart, and almost none of them are air conditioned or use electronic checkouts...
...policies. Foreign firms may crowd out inefficient state-run companies, but many Vietnamese look forward to having more choice in their daily lives. Le To Nga, 65, lived through the Vietnam War and stood in line for ration cards in the 1980s. Today, she's happily filling her shopping cart at Big C, a vast new supermarket on Hanoi's outskirts run by France's Casino Group. Shopping "is not a matter of patriotism at all," Nga says. "These days, we just buy what we like...
...What could be bad for domestic businesses is welcomed by many Vietnamese consumers. Le To Nga, 65, lived through the Vietnam War and stood in line for ration cards in the 1980s. Today, she's happily filling her shopping cart at Big C, a vast new supermarket on Hanoi's outskirts run by France's Casino Group in a joint venture with a local company. Shopping "is not a matter of patriotism at all," Nga says. "These days, we just buy what we like." Foreign giants entering Vietnam will likely create as many or more jobs than they'll destroy...
...setting as Alfred Tesseron finishes his tour of the Château Pontet-Canet, which is perched on a hill above the legendary Bordeaux wine village of Pauillac. He has talked proudly about how his father bought the château 30 years ago. He has driven his electric cart along the neat rows of vines and pointed out some of his big recent investments: the state-of-the-art water recycling[an error occurred while processing this directive] system, the new storage and bottling barn and the twin rows of conical fermentation vats. Now comes the moment of truth...