He wanted to create a franchise, a mechanism of delivery of eye care with the efficiency of McDonald's.

This is sort of a 7 Eleven for time travelers.

In Chile, for example, the top four chains already represent 46 per cent of total national grocery retailing, and in Latin America as a whole, on average the top five chains represent 65 per cent of total sales.

The new strategy comes after Sainsbury's sold its 281 store pharmacy business to Celesio, the owner of the Lloyds Pharmacy chain, for 125m, three years ago.

I am the owner of one of the greatest drugstore chains.

The fact that it has occurred in Germany and at that very hotel chain, is an even greater disgrace.

Put them out on the whole chain. I want everyone to smell good.

Yes, but it was taken over last year by the Midway chain.

Small shops play an important role as employers of those who migrate from rural to urban areas, including foreigners, performing a crucial social role that large chains would be unable to perform, since chains require that employees have a certain level of skill.

The presence of large chains helps to overcome bottlenecks in distribution networks existing in developing countries, and through those chains' international procurement practices may bring products from those countries for distribution in international markets.

Walked into the Lego store.

In the case of Indonesia, the top five chains account for 60 per cent of the market.

The chains pointed to other market forces which, they said, caused them to increase these prices.

He's a big chainstore buyer, one of our most important customers.

They turned out to be Mrs. Elvira Kent and her uncle, head of a drugstore chain.

They have some marvy maternity clothes... at Christian Dior's.

Moreover, large chains tend to integrate backwards, offering new business opportunities to local manufacturers.

This process has led to a concentration of sales, with large firms and chains dominating the market.

Under this arrangement, Monkhangai will raise funds to support country programme activities, donating 1 per cent of its net profits earned from operations at its multi chain retail and wholesale stores in Ulaanbaatar.

Provision of medicines (full payment or part payment) by pharmacies

Five large foreign retail chains are operating in the Vietnamese market at present, while many others are waiting for approval.

So he went to find them. They said, We can give you a franchise on this for 3,000 bucks.

Four convenience store chains raised their prices for carbonated beverages by an identical amount within a brief period of time.

Foreign expansion of retailers has been mostly through acquisitions of domestic chains in other countries, some greenfield investment, and joint ventures with local companies.

There, the family founded Westco Jeans and grew it into a chain of 160 retail outlets.

Then sell the shop. Stupid!

The retailing sector has been witnessing increasing competition and concentration, mainly through the establishment and expansion of chain stores emphasis on large stores the increasing use of technology and growing internationalization of the whole supply chain.

Terry Lundgren, the retailer's chief executive, has said before that the chain simply had too many stores.

This store sells old books.

This store is currently selling vegetables.

I bought these in peabody's general store in your hometown, Mr. Brady

The presence of large chains in the retail market is usually conducive to the improvement of local worker skills, especially in logistics.

Global marketing chains, clusters, networks as channels for diversification

The whole family of the UN Secretariat and related entities, together with current peacekeepers, adds up to around 215,000 people worldwide not a small number, but less than one eighth of the roughly 1.8 million staff employed by McDonald s and its franchisees worldwide!

This is a shop for a bag company.

The store sells fruit and vegetables.

The store sells fruits and vegetables.

I can sell it to Lacey's.

The debate around opening the retail sector to foreign investment is currently being framed, on the one hand, by the need to modernize supply chains and, on the other hand, by the desire to protect small shopkeepers livelihoods. Those who support the decision argue that India s supply chains are simply too wasteful, and that only the finance and knowhow of big, international retail chains can upgrade them.

Sainsbury's has been putting Argos outlets in hundreds of stores and has also introduced a number of Habitats since it bought both chains two years ago, which it says has bolstered grocery sales and made the acquisitions more profitable.

And the only places to get WiFi are in the school buildings, or at the Bojangles Fried Chicken joint, which I find myself squatting outside of a lot.

There were no restaurant chains.

Block all the streets leading out!

That store sells newspapers and magazines.

That shop sells newspapers and magazines.