Recently the company partnered with Top Shop, an edgy London based specialty store chain targeting young consumers.
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However, I can't encourage you enough to search out an all-butter puff pastry at a local specialty store.
As for the ramps, if your farmers' market or specialty store doesn't have them, use spring onions or leeks instead.
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Johnson is struggling to complete an ambitious turnaround that would transform the 110-year-old retailer into a specialty store with branded boutiques.
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Rawesome, an expensive, all-cash specialty store devoted to radically unprocessed food, attracted a clientele of health-seekers, yoginis, celebrities, and the seriously ill.
Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. engages as a sporting goods retailer, which offers a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment, apparel and footwear in a specialty store environment.
It was with the occasional chain or specialty store that Bathum made some headway--and his biggest mistake:He failed to line up a dedicated sales force and didn't bother to follow up on orders.
It was with the occasional chain or specialty store that Bathum made some headway--and his biggest mistake: He failed to line up a dedicated sales force and didn't bother to follow up on orders.
For example, shoppers to a specialty store can use the website to create a shopping list, select products they like, and share the list with their friends who can add their choices and provide comments.
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Eventually the company hopes to have 100 shops in each of these stores thereby creating a specialty department store.
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He found a new job in a specialty food store, but it paid much less than his old one in a plastics factory.
He redefined the creation of a specialty department store and compared it again to a 1.2 million square foot mall that would have 100 stores plus anchor department stores.
Penney locations fell 26% in the latest quarter, a sign that the 110-year-old department is having trouble maintaining a customer base as transitions to the specialty department store Johnson envisions.
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Mr. Johnson is concerned with customers having very little loyalty, but expects his 100 shop specialty department store concept to be a destination for many new customers when the transformation is completed.
While creating a specialty department store sounds like a great idea, the reality of losing sales and earnings at a faster clip than has ever been seen in a major American retailer must give the Board pause.
Besides historic exhibits like the courtroom, this is a modern-day museum and the 17, 000 square feet of exhibition space spans three floors (plus a specialty retail store) and includes highly experiential and interactive experiences and high-tech theater presentations.
Amateur runner Dean Irvine, recently completed a half-marathon and says before he started running he went to a specialty running store where the staff watch you run up and down the street outside so they recommend shoes that are correct for the runner's gait.
And critics have taken direct aim at CEO Mike Jefferies, the man who transformed Abercrombie from hunting-goods store to a specialty retailer with scantily clad models, wondering whether he is still the best choice to lead the company.
In 1995 President Shiko Sawamura said Oki must become like a "specialty shop" amid giant department store rivals.
His hardware, tools, and materiel come from specialty shops, including the artisanal hardware store elsewhere in the same plaza.
It's not exclusive to specialty fur boutiques like Dennis Basso's Madison Avenue store.
The store was also a very strong food outlet, featuring specialty items such as real sourdough bread, whole coffee beans etc.
In recent years, shopping in a department store has been a scary time-consuming experience leading many people to shop in specialty stores which often offer a faster shopping alternative.
"You can get away with it at a big-box store, with mostly lower skilled retail positions, " he says, noting that a specialty electronics chain like Best Buy generally requires more knowledgeable workers.
Signet operates approximately 1, 853 specialty retail jewelry stores, including 1, 318 stores in the U.S., under the store brands Kay Jewelers, Jared The Galleria Of Jewelry and a number of regional names.
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The store's "ethos, " she said, is to carry a mix of high-end specialty items along with affordable products like Schaefer beer and, yes, Snickers.
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