Schlecker, a chain of discount chemists, recently shut down some shops and sacked the workers, but at the same time opened bigger ones with temporary staff at lower pay.
Vendors are likely to have little choice but to play ball with Target because of its clout as the second-largest discount chain.
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Wal-Mart, in which lawyers representing female employees of the discount chain allege women were denied management positions and pay because of their sex.
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The discount chain discovered it could predict buying patterns down to every last store shelf, thanks to data gleaned daily from its checkout scanners.
Maxx is a remnant of the now defunct Zayre discount chain.
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Christian Dior, for example, sued Kruidvat, a Dutch discount chain, after it advertised its Poison and Fahrenheit high-priced perfumes alongside a line of lurex underpants.
Last week we noted a pickup in call-side activity in retail giant Target on rumors that the discount chain might be looking to divest its credit card business.
Mr. Dhanin's bid for the membership-based discount chain he himself owned until the Asian economic crisis of the late 1990s would be Asia's biggest merger so far this year.
That comment exemplifies the struggle the discount chain, known for its "blue light" specials that sent shoppers scurrying down aisles for a limited-time bargain, has had to endure in modernising its image.
The upscale department store and the discount chain will both be flogging a limited edition gift collection with items from 24 designers cherry picked from among the Council of American Fashion Designers.
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The company behind the Uniqlo chain of stores added to Tuesday's 5.5% rise, after the firm's discount apparel chain "GU" said it would expand its line of clothing for spring and summer.
Simplot, which makes McDonald's french fries, has given the chain a 40% discount on corn kernels.
Naoki Tada, along with brother Takashi, inherited stake in discount drugstore chain Sundrug.
German billionaire Berthold Albrecht, an heir to the Aldi Nord discount supermarket chain, died last month at age 58.
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Also making debuts are the Tada brothers, who share a stake in discount drug chain Sundrug, and Hirokazu Sugiura, founder of Sugi Pharmacy.
Family Dollar Stores operates a chain of self-service retail discount stores primarily for low- and middle-income consumers.
The latest results of the American Customer Satisfaction Index for retail and e-commerce show Amazon with a solid lead in customer satisfaction in both Internet retailing and across the entire department, discount and specialty retailer chain categories.
IRobot sold essentially the same version in different colors to every chain, which only encouraged them to discount heavily.
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He also owns a large stake in discount clothes, shoes and textiles chain Pepkor, where he is executive chairman.
Discount clothing company Primark and UK supermarket chain Tesco have also signed the agreement.
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It operates a chain of approximately 7, 400 general merchandise retail discount stores in 45 states.
Todd Roscoe, a former executive at the hospital chain Tenet Healthcare, says that a 40% discount off the inflated list price is the norm for cash-paying customers.
Even though KMart had pioneered discount retailing, it could not compete with the fast growing, supply chain innovating Wal-Mart.
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Kinokuniya America, a bookstore chain whose stores gets weekly shipments from Japan, last month announced a 15% discount on all Japanese books sold in its seven U.S. locations, in cities including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle.
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