Word: stores
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Burton, as District 9 had by its Peter Jackson connection, but is unlikely to escape its art-house patina. The other two newbies - the horror film Sorority Row and Kate Beckinsale's Antarctica killer-hunt drama Whiteout - got the theatrical equivalent of a window display in a video store before their imminent DVD releases; each took in just over $5 million...
...What analysts really want to see from Project Impact, however, is a faster pace of implementation. "The biggest hurdle facing Walmart is the speed with which they can roll this out," says Feldman. As more Project Impact stores pop up, the existing stores appear worse by comparison. For example, while the merchandise at the Project Impact store outside of Philadelphia really speaks to that particular market - there's tons of Eagles and Phillies gear - at one regular discount store outside New York City, Minnesota Twins and Seattle Mariners pajama pants wasted away on the racks. There were plenty of associates...
...What about the friendly service? In West Deptford, the associates were sunny and bright. At the New York-area discount store, not so much. "You'll notice we've been in the store for two hours, and no one has even said hello to us," Flickinger says after he and I toured that store. He's right, we weren't feeling any love. But if Project Impact keeps picking up momentum, many more Walmart salespeople, and shareholders, should be smiling...
...were very busy,” said Radwan Kheireddine, the store’s owner. “We’re definitely putting in more orders this week.” Kheireddine said that he had heard rumors about a calendar change from Harvard employees who frequent the store but did not realize that the majority of students would be back before Labor Day. “We want students to come, we wish they were here year-round,” Kheireddine said. The temporary shortage of cheap alcohol did not go unnoticed by Harvard students. One Quadling...
...payer is one position; the present system is another position. What we’re advocating with the public option is the compromise,” he told the mostly middle-aged and elderly Cambridge-area crowd at the First Parish Church at an event sponsored by Harvard Book Store. “We’re not going to compromise anymore because that is the compromise already.” Though he avoided calling out the White House as spineless for suggesting compromise, he joked that some “spinal transplants” that he had performed...