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

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

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.

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

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

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.

This is sort of a 7 Eleven for time travelers.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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!

The bookshop, I'm going there.

Introducing rules after market entry has been granted to large chains, for example zoning regulations, will be ineffective or will protect incumbents.

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.

Although every time I go to Pompeii, I'm amazed that they had the equivalent of a McDonald's on every street corner, too.

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

Networks of private businesses clusters and linkages

An independent analysis of these factors and others by the agency led it to conclude that there was insufficient evidence of an unlawful agreement involving the chains.

A book store!

(Bookstore)

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!

The machine itself has 89 distinct interactions.

There is a bookstore in front of the department store.

Spokesman for the Secretary General

Those events led to a domino effect that has yet to end.

Department store giant Macy's said on Thursday that it plans to close 100 stores, a dramatic step that is aimed at helping the chain get ahead of a potentially crippling problem America, it says, has too many stores for the online shopping era.

Mike Coupe, the chief executive of Sainsbury's, has said the outlets will look increasingly like department stores as the supermarket chain tries to fight back against the discounters Aldi and Lidl with more services and non food.

Food for Revolution

And we have his book outside in the bookshop.